Here's a mystery with a UW-Madison connection. This man with amnesia can't remember his name, but claims he attended UW-Madison many years ago.

When the Seattle Times contacted the State Journal this week looking for help on the story, we checked records and paged through archived newspapers from the mid-1980s, but found no record of him or his Wisconsin wife Tina, who he remembers dying.

Update: A Seattle Times reader identified the man as Edward Lighthart, an English teacher he knew in China.

Lighthart attended UW-Madison from fall of 1980 through spring of 1984, getting a degree in French, according to university records. Previously, he had attended the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Pima Community College, and the Culinary Institute of America in New York. His most recent address on file with UW-Madison is in Vienna, Austria.

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