Officials Identify Man Found Dead In Abandoned Milwaukee Building

MILWAUKEE, WI — After a Youtuber discovered a man's partially-skeletonized body in an abandoned Milwaukee building in August, authorities have managed to find the man's family and identify him.

The body was that of a 32-year-old man from Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office announced in a tweet Monday. His family has been notified, the medical examiner said without additional details.

Just weeks after the remains were found and reported on Aug. 10, the medical examiner's office had taken to social media with photos of rings found alongside the body in hopes of identifying the man. Prior to his family being found, the body was one of several unidentified persons cases in Milwaukee.

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The Youtuber found the body on the second floor of a multi-use building near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Burleigh Street which had previously been used as a church, according to a report by the medical examiner's office.

When an official from the medical examiner's office visited the scene they found crumbling walls and ceilings and trash littered about, according to the agency's report. Authorities were not immediately able to find any family of the man.