Story highlights Missing man suddenly remembers forgotten memories from 30 years ago

Man set to reunite with this mother who feared him dead

(CNN) Missing for decades, one man just solved his own missing persons case, according to Canadian police.

For 30 years, a Canadian man lived under a different name with an apparently unknown past and didn't know he had any relatives, until now, according to the Niagara Regional Police.

After landing in front of a social worker on January 7, a 51-year-old man suddenly remembered who he was: His real name was Edgar Latulip and he was from Kitchener, Canada.

That's when the memories started to come back.

Latulip apparently left his hometown of Kitchener back in 1986 on a bus destined for Niagara Falls, according to Constable Phil Gavin, a spokesperson for the Niagara Regional Police Department.

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