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Fake-News Report Claims That Body Of Homeless Man Was Bob Marley – Hoax-Slayer

This story was first published on June 9, 2015

Outline

Circulating report claims that when Jamaican authorities conducted DNA tests on the body of a homeless man found behind a fast food restaurant, they discovered that the man was actually reggae star Bob Marley.  




Brief Analysis

The claims in the report are nonsense. No such discovery has been made. The story is fiction and has been published by various fake-news and ‘entertainment’ websites. Bob Marley died in 1981. The story is a reworking of an earlier fake-news report that claimed that the body of a homeless man found in San Diego turned out to be that of Elvis Presley.

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DNA Shocker! Body Of Homeless Man Found In Fast Food Restaurant Was BOB MARLEY!

When the body of an elderly homeless man was discovered in a discarded cardboard box behind the back of a fast food joint in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, coroners had a problem: Who was this mysterious old man?

Bob Marley Homeless Man fake News



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