Police: 'Forest Boy' story is a hoax

By the CNN Wire Staff
June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1200 GMT (2000 HKT)

... The 20-year-old hoaxer, who claimed he was 17 and lived in the German woods for five years, is actually from Hengelo, Netherlands. He never lived in the forest and made his way to Berlin sometime last year, police said ...

He told authorities upon his discovery last September that he had been living in the woods with his father, Ryan, but decided to leave after his father died, investigators said. He couldn't explain why his father died.

Ray was unable to name or show the place he buried his father in the forest underneath stones, officials said, so investigators couldn't find the body ...

He couldn't "specify anything about cities, countries or regions him and his father had traveled through," they said in a statement ...

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