On July 28, 1996, two fishermen found the body of a middle-aged man off the Devon coast in England. The body was soon identified as Ronald Platt, thanks to the service records for the Rolex watch the man had been wearing. This started the unraveling of tracking down one of Interpol’s and Canada’s most wanted con men.
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