A man spent three days erasing himself on camera, then died on a beach

Peter Bergmann cut every label from his clothes and died on a Sligo beach in 2009. Still unidentified.

Peter Bergmann — Colin Park / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

On June 12, 2009, a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland under the name Peter Bergmann and a nonexistent Austrian address. He paid cash every night. Over the next three days, cameras around town filmed him leaving the hotel with a purple plastic bag of belongings and coming back without…