 [NYPOST] A Canadian man solved his own cold case -- by suddenly remembering his identity 30 years after he disappeared.
Ooh! Ooh! I seen dis TV show!
Edgar Latulip was 21 years old when he vanished from a group home in Kitchener, Ontario, in September 1986.
Dat's French for Edgar The Tulip...
The last time his mom, Sylvia Wilson, saw her son, he was in a hospital after a failed suicide attempt, and cops figured Wilson, who has the cognitive abilities of a child, traveled to Niagara Falls to kill himself.
Mizz Wilson or Monsieur The Tulip?
His mom suspected foul play,
"Dat's right. Somebody done him in!"
thinking for decades that he may have been abused because of his mental illness, or accidentally killed and his body hidden, she told The Guelph Mercury.
Accidentally killed and his body accidentally hidden?
On Wednesday, Waterloo regional police announced that Latulip was alive and well, living 80 miles away from where he disappeared. His cold case got a big break in January after Latulip told a social worker in St. Catharines that he remembered who he was. A DNA test performed last week confirmed that it was in fact him.
"Holmes! How do you do it?"
Police concluded that Latulip had some kind of head injury that caused him to forget who he was.
Dat's what happened to dat guy on Da Young and Da Restless, too!
"It's the only case, that I know of, where we've been able to find someone who has been missing for this period of time," Detective Duane Gingerich told CTV News.
Officials are now working on arranging a reunion between Latulip and his family. "They're obviously very happy about it and they're making plans to get together with Edgar and speak with him further," Gingerich said.
"Mother!"
"Monsieur The Tulip!"
Wilson told CTV she hadn't spoken with her son yet, but was overwhelmed to know he was alive. 
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