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It’s being reported that the indentity of a dead homeless man who was found in a cardboard box in the back of a Kingston, Jamaica fast food restaurant, is actually the legendary reggae singer, Bob Marley. Even though the Coroners were not able to immediately identify this man as hadn’t identification on him. It is important to mention that the only items that were found in the elderly man’s possession were: faded photograph of the Houses of Parliament in London; dented tin can containing a small quantity of marijuana and a battered old guitar. As the authorities had no leads to go on with the investigation, they turned to Jamaica’s National DNA Database. At the moment when the results came back from the laboratory, the coroners could not …show more content…

This had to be a mistake.” It had been always believed that Bob Marley passed away from cancer in 1981 because he returned to Jamaica by plane from Germany. However, if this happened, why was his body lying behind the fast food restaurant? It is interesting that the Chambers were able to come up with only one explanation: “Naturally I concluded somebody was playing a joke on us, and told my assistant to label the body as ‘persons unknown’. This would mean he could be cremated by authorities and the death filed as that of an unknown male in his late 60s to early 70s. But it was then that things got really weird.” That same afternoon, the chief coroner, was visited by men in sunglasses. These introduce themselves as ‘government officials’. They were all wearing black suits. They said that Bob Marley grow tired of all the attention he was getting and the only thing he wanted was to live a quiet life of a street busker in Jamaica. That is why he faked his own death in 1981. These men also confirmed that the body was indeed the reggae legend. The Jamaican government admitted going along with Marley’s plan, on the understanding they would receive the royalties from his most successful album,

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