Man found naked behind Burger King with amnesia may have concealed mysterious past for decades

In August 2004, a antheral was recovered unconscious down a Georgia Burger King. Initial reports described him arsenic bare and bloodied. When helium woke up, helium claimed helium had nary representation of who helium was. Now, 2 filmmakers are attempting to uncover what happened during the decades erstwhile helium was missing.

On May 25, Investigation Discovery (ID) premieres the four-part docuseries "The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle," which follows Eric and Shannon Evangelista arsenic they effort to assistance the mysterious man, who claimed to endure from a uncommon signifier of amnesia, portion unneurotic his mislaid identity. But aft the antheral was identified successful 2015 arsenic William Burgess Powell, the probe takes an unexpected turn.

It’s unclear whether Powell, who appears successful the docuseries, disputes the filmmakers’ conclusions.

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After disappearing from Indiana successful 1976, William Burgess Powell resurfaced astir 30 years aboriginal down a Georgia Burger King, claiming helium had nary representation of who helium was. He became known arsenic Benjaman Kyle. (Investigation Discovery)

Powell hasn’t been arrested oregon charged with immoderate crime. He besides doesn’t look to person immoderate transgression record, People mag reported. According to the docuseries, his whereabouts are presently unknown, and the filmmakers are encouraging anyone with leads to scope retired to their Hot Snakes Media accumulation company.

"We’ve ne'er stopped, and we’re inactive investigating," Shannon told Fox News Digital. "I deliberation the large question that’s inactive looming, the driving unit for us, is wherever helium was from 1983, erstwhile his Social Security net stopped, until 2004, erstwhile helium was recovered astatine a Burger King. We’re hoping the nationalist volition assistance america reply that."

Hospital unit nicknamed Powell "B.K. Doe" for "Burger King Doe." He past began identifying himself arsenic Benjaman Kyle. While helium was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia, which causes idiosyncratic to suffer memories earlier an lawsuit specified arsenic a encephalon injury, trauma oregon illness, Shannon’s husband, Eric Evangelista, began to question his diagnosis.

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"His signifier of amnesia was a precise outdated signifier of amnesia that you lone recovered successful aged movies and soap operas," helium explained. "And erstwhile we began questioning Benjaman, helium didn’t privation to beryllium found. It became evident that determination were roadblocks helium was putting up. If you truly wanted to beryllium found, you would beryllium consenting to bash thing possible. That’s erstwhile I said to Shannon, ‘This guy’s afloat of it, and we request to spell further.’"

Powell has publically maintained that helium suffered from representation loss.

The Evangelistas are nary strangers to analyzing cases. Evangelista antecedently spent 14 years arsenic a broadcast quality shaper and paper journalist. Shannon was a national transgression defence lawyer specializing successful organized transgression earlier becoming an adjunct territory lawyer successful Orange County, California, and aboriginal moving to New York arsenic a authoritative successful the Special Narcotics Division of the territory attorney’s office.

Filmmakers Eric and Shannon Evangelista told Fox News Digital they're inactive searching for answers astir Benjaman Kyle's (William Powell) past and existent whereabouts. (Investigation Discovery)

Shannon said that aft learning Powell’s story, they were determined to reconnect him with his household and papers his journey. But arsenic they dug deeper, the enigma lone intensified, raising much questions than answers astir who helium truly was.

"It was weird," she said. "I had this imagination that I was going to reunite him with his wife, who was going to beryllium crying arsenic the kids were like, ‘Dad!’ But erstwhile I took him out, I noticed helium would cognize each the places. He would beryllium like, ‘In 1984, they built this theater,’ oregon ‘I retrieve they were giving tickets for this.’ He wouldn’t retrieve people, and helium didn’t privation to spell anyplace wherever determination was a idiosyncratic who could admit him."

The lawsuit of Benjaman Kyle sparked nationalist media attention. The mysterious man, who aboriginal identified himself arsenic William Powell, appeared connected the Dr. Phil amusement successful 2008. (Investigation Discovery)

Powell, present 77, said helium had 23 memories from "the mid-‘80s." During filming, helium was driven done the mountains of Colorado to a determination helium claimed to remember. At 1 point, helium joked, "If anyone wants to get escaped of a body, this would beryllium a bully spot to shove 1 off. It’d beryllium years earlier they recovered it." He past laughed and kicked a stone down a mountain.

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In the docuseries, shaper Alexander Block said Benjaman Kyle's (William Powell) morbid jokes made the unit uncomfortable. (Investigation Discovery)

"He would commencement to accidental these impromptu things that were scary, similar talking astir digging up skulls successful the cemetery and dumping bodies," said Shannon. "It was conscionable like, ‘What’s happening here?’ I was like, ‘We request much help. We request a profiler. This is beyond my experience.’"

The Evangelistas turned to Ken Maxwell, a retired FBI adjunct peculiar cause successful complaint of the New York division, for guidance.

"The archetypal of what we would telephone a beardown pb oregon interruption successful our travel was the surfacing of a missing idiosyncratic study that the Indiana State Police wrote backmost successful August 1976 that elaborate the circumstances of however helium fled successful the mediate of the nighttime from Lafayette, Indiana, successful March of that year," Maxwell explained to Fox News Digital.

Ken Maxwell, Shannon and Eric Evangelista are seen present gathering with Lt. John Eager during filming. (Investigation Discovery)

"In that report, it says his conveyance was abandoned successful a agrarian country northbound of Lafayette. It wasn’t conscionable abandoned — they took the licence plates disconnected of it."

"To anybody who’s been successful instrumentality enforcement, radical conscionable don’t instrumentality the licence plates disconnected their car and past thrust each nighttime with a person to Colorado," said Maxwell. "They were fleeing from something."

Shannon pointed retired that Maxwell managed to get Powell’s aesculapian records from the clip helium was discovered astatine the Burger King. He argued the records contradicted aspects of Powell’s story.

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Clues provided by Benjaman Kyle, besides known arsenic William Powell, led filmmakers to Colorado. (Investigation Discovery)

"The communicative was that helium was beaten and thrown adjacent to a dumpster down the Burger King," said Maxwell. "There wasn’t a azygous abrasion oregon scratch connected his assemblage different than the infected ant bites connected the soles of his feet, tegument mites and immoderate sunburn."

Maxwell besides argued that the archetypal EMT effect formed uncertainty connected whether Powell’s amnesia was genuine. Still, experts enactment that representation disorders tin beryllium hard to definitively verify oregon disprove.

During filming, producers uncovered imaginable ties to a transgression household successful Lafayette, fueling speculation astir whether helium had connections to organized crime. Cold cases successful the country were besides explored. Maxwell said helium took each theories seriously.

It was wide reported successful September 2015 that Benjaman Kyle had been identified and reunited with biologic household members aft 11 years of searching. He was identified arsenic William Powell. (Investigation Discovery)

No nationalist grounds has emerged linking Powell to immoderate homicide oregon organized transgression activity.

"In immoderate investigation, you truly person to spell retired of your mode to effort to corroborate the archetypal information," said Maxwell.

"We had a fewer radical archer america that helium was a hitman. We had a fewer radical archer america who helium was hanging retired with backmost successful the ‘70s, and we did immoderate checks connected them. There were immoderate beauteous nefarious characters with transgression records. Even his member was acrophobic astir the spot wherever helium was moving due to the fact that of the benignant of clientele that utilized to predominant the place."

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Benjaman Kyle, besides known arsenic William Powell, is seen holding his recently issued Florida ID paper connected Sept. 21, 2015. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service)

Shannon said they past interacted with Powell successful December 2016. They aboriginal discovered helium nary longer appeared to beryllium surviving astatine his past known residence, and they said they had been incapable to find his existent whereabouts.

"There’s nary listing of him," she said. "He conscionable went MIA arsenic acold arsenic we are concerned. We’re not wholly definite wherever helium is. We’ve heard rumors that he’s surviving astatine immoderate circumstantial boarding house, but there’s thing factual determination for america anymore.

"Everyone we talked to, anyone that helium had a narration with, said they haven’t heard from him successful years. We did spot him moving astatine a spot successful Lafayette, a convenience store. Ken went in, and they said that helium had near that position. None of them had heard from him."

Those who knew Benjaman Kyle (William Powell) told filmmakers they haven't heard from him. (Investigation Discovery)

"We judge he’s inactive successful the Lafayette country due to the fact that helium truly doesn’t person a batch of fiscal resources to spell places, but I deliberation that’s well-founded speculation," Maxwell said. "He’s masterful astatine laying low."

Maxwell besides said his probe suggested Powell was "a machine expert," a accomplishment acceptable helium believes could person helped him conceal his individuality and support his whereabouts hidden.

New theories astir Powell’s existent individuality kept surfacing during filming, but for the Evangelistas, each pb seemed to rise adjacent much questions than answers. Still, their hunt continues.

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Benjaman Kyle claimed to endure from a uncommon signifier of amnesia. Filmmaker Eric Evangelista began to question his diagnosis. (Investigation Discovery)

Despite years of investigation, nary grounds has publically emerged linking Powell to immoderate convulsive crime, and galore questions astir his past stay unanswered.

"If you person a purposeful program to unrecorded underneath the radar, disconnected the grid, you tin bash it," said Maxwell.

"Families person arguments each the time," helium reflected. "They don’t tally distant for 21, 22 years. There’s nary insubstantial way connected this feline betwixt 1983 and 2004, erstwhile helium was recovered down the Burger King successful Georgia."

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Benjaman Kyle, aboriginal known arsenic William Powell, is look walking done a terminal astatine Denver International Airport. (Investigation Discovery)

"I conscionable privation to find retired much astir who this antheral was," said Evangelista. "We privation answers. This is not the end."