This crawl of online resources of the 112th US Congress was performed in Fall of 2012 and early winter of 2013 on behalf of NARA. ||||| NOT KNOWING HIS OWN NAME. NOT KNOWING HIS OWN NAME. . IT'S BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE STRUGGLE DECADE STRUGGLING, SEARCHING FOR THIS MAN WHO CALLS JACKSONVILLE HOME. HE FINALLY HAS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF "WHO AM I STP/ "WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU THAT STORY 4 YEARS AGO. THIS STRETCHES BACK TO AUGUST 2004. HE WAS FOUND BEATEN, BURNED OUTSIDE OF A BURGER KING RESTAURANT. WHEN HE WOKE UP, DOCTORS DIAGNOSED HIM WITH RESTROE/ GRADE HIM WITH RESTROE/ GRADE AMNESIA. TPH-RBL/ AMNESIA. TPH-RBLLY, I WAS AMNESIA. TPH-RBLLY, I WAS STUNNED, I CONEVEN FALK ABOUT IT. BENJAMIN KYLE TELLS ME HE KNOWS HIS REAL NAME, BUT HAS SHOCKED HAS TURNED TO RELIEF AND RELEASE OF PENT UP FEELINGS. I NEVER REALLY TALKED ABOUT THE BAD TIMES AND THERE WERE SOME BAD TIMES I NEVER TALKED TO ANYBODY ABOUT IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T BELIEVE I HAD THE RIGHT TO IMPOSE MY PROBLEMS ON THEM -- -- SORRY -- -- AND 10 YEARS AGO, IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT I WOULD HAVE HAD TO GO THROUGH THE PAST 10 YEARS, I WOULD HAVE MADE UP A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER IN THE HOSPITAL. OVER THE PAST 11 YEARS, HE HAS WONDERED, ASKED FOR HELP, APPEARED ON NATIONAL TELEVISION SHOWS, LOOKING FOR CLUES WITHOUT SUCCESS. AND THEN A BREAKTHROUGH THAT LET HIM KNOW FOR SURE WHO HIS FAMILY IS AND WHERE HE COMES FROM. I LEFT INDIANA IN 1976 AND THEY HAVE NOT SEEN ME SINCE THEN. WE HAVE NOT BEEN IN COMMUNICATION. THEY THOUGHT I WAS DEAD. ALIVE, BUT LOST IN HIS AMNESIA. HE GOT HELP FROM THIS WOMAN. T C MOORE. THE METHODOLOGY WE USED WAS FOR ADOPTION SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WHO JUAN!WANTED TO FIND THEIR BIRTH FAMILIES. 2 AND A HALF YEARS COMPARING HIS DATA BASES TO THOSE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ALONG WITH INFORMATION HE THOUGHT HE REMEMBERED. HE MADE THE CONNECTION, LAW ENFORCEMENT COULDN'T. WE HAD HIS BIRTHDAY. WE HAD HIS HOME STATE. HOW COULD THIS NOT HAVE BEEN SOLVED? IT TOOK ALL OF THIS TIME AND THANKS TO GENETICS, AND DNA DETECTIVE WORK, HE FINALLY HAS WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIS FOR YEARS. REPORTER: WITHOUT SREUR/ FYEABLE IDENTITY. WITHOUT HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, BUSINESSES WOULD NOT EMPLOY HIM AND SHELTERS WOULD NOT HOUSE HIM. NEWS FOR JACKS HELPED HIM GET THIS IDENTIFICATION. WE BROUGHT THIS TO SENATOR BILL NELSON WHO HAD SYMPATHY, BUT COULD NOT CHANGE THE LAWS. THIS IS THE CATCH 22 HE HAS BEEN IN, THERE HAS TO BE A SOLUTION. YOU CAN'T LEAVE THIS FELLOW WITHOUT AN IDENTITY. REPORTER: THIS MAN SAW OUR STORY IN 2011 AND GAVE HIM A JOB AND A PLACE TO LIVE. WHILE MANY OTHERS HELPED ANY WAY THEY COULD. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS ANY WAY I CAN REPAY HIM. I WOULD LIKE TO -- -- WHAT'S NEXT FOR BENJAMIN? HE IS NOT SURE, BUT HE HAS MORE OPTIONS THAN I DID INITIALLY. I'M THINKING I'M GOING TO STAY IN JACKSONVILLE. I KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE. MY SUPPORT SYSTEM IS HERE. REPORTER: HE SAID HE HAS NOT 
 
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 
 
 It's been 11 years of wondering, searching and struggling for a man who calls himself Benjamin Kyle. For the last 11 years, BK didn't know his real identity. But now, the man who calls Jacksonville home knows his true identity. 
 
 
 
 READ: BK thanks community with Facebook post 
 
 Back in August 2004, someone found BK beaten, sunburned and left for dead near a dumpster outside a Savannah area Burger King restaurant. When he woke up in the hospital, he had no memory of his identify. Doctors diagnosed him with retrograde amnesia. 
 
 "Sometimes, the last ten years has been just hell," said BK. "I think initially I was just stunned, literally stunned. I was not functioning. I couldn't even talk about it." 
 
 Over the past 11 years, BK has been searching for answers. 
 
 "I never really talked about the bad times. And there were some bad times," BK said, as his emotions got the best of him. "I never talked to people about it because I never thought I had the right to impose my problems on them. I don't know. Ten years ago, if I had known I'd have to go through the past ten years, I'd have just made up a Social Security number in the hospital." 
 
 BK asked for help. He appeared on Channel 4 locally and also national television shows like "The Jeff Probst Show" looking for clues, without success. 
 
 Then a breakthrough - that let him know, for sure, who his family is, and where he comes from. 
 
 "Evidently, I left Indiana in '76 and they have not seen me since then," BK said. "Of course we haven't been in communication. They thought I was dead." 
 
 Alive, but lost in his amnesia, until he got help from genetic genealogist CeCe Moore. 
 
 "The methodology we used to solve the Benjamin Kyle case was actually developed for adoption searches. For people who wanted to ID their birth families. It's applicable to lost identity as well," Moore explained. 
 
 Moore and a team worked on BK's case for two and a half years, comparing his DNA to those in databases across the country. Along with information BK thought he remembered, Moore's team made the connection - when law enforcement couldn't. 
 
 "In fact, it really amazes me that law enforcement didn't solve this sooner," Moore said. "We had his birth date. We had his home state. We had his family's religion. How could this not have been solved? It took all this time, and thanks to genetic genealogy and DNA detective work, he finally has what should have been his for years. 
 
 UNCUT: Kent Justice's interview with BK | CeCe Moore 
 
 BK hasn't reunited with his family members yet, so he's not releasing his true identity to protect their privacy. But, he's excited to thank those who helped him get his real name back and share his relief of knowing who he really is. 
 
 "Looking at all these names, all these people, kind of gives me a sense of belonging," he said. "I have a history. I'm not just some stranger that materialized out of thin air." 
 
 Before, without a verifiable identity, without his Social Security number, businesses wouldn't employ him and shelters wouldn't house him. Four years ago, News4Jax helped BK connect with a state representative to get Benjamin Kyle a Florida Legacy ID. 
 
 News4Jax brought the issue to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, who sympathized but couldn't change the laws surrounding legal identification. 
 
 "This is the catch 22 he's in, and there's obviously got to be a solution," Senator Nelson told News4Jax in 2011. "You can't leave this fella without an identity." 
 
 Then, when Josh Shrutt saw our story air four years ago, he gave BK a job and a place to live. Many others also stepped up and helped however they could. 
 
 "I don't know that there's any way I'll be able to repay them," said BK. "I would like to!" 
 
 BK doesn't know what's next for him, but he certainly has more options now that he knows his true identity. 
 
 "Some of this is up in the air a bit. I'm thinking now I'll stay in Jacksonville. I know so many people. My support system is here," he said. 
 
 BK adds, while he hasn't seen his surviving brothers in person yet, he looks forward to doing that soon.
– In August 2004, a naked man was found semi-conscious outside a Burger King in south Georgia. An EMS report cited by 11Alive noted his "total body [was] covered in sores and rash," and he awoke in a hospital with no idea who he was. Eleven years after he was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia, the man who calls himself Benjamin Kyle (he took his initials from "Burger King") finally knows his real name, reports WJXT. Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore helped Kyle solve the case using a methodology developed for adoption searches. Armed with what Kyle remembered, including his birthdate, home state, and family's religion, a team compared Kyle's DNA to that in databases across the country over two and a half years before uncovering his family. "A DNA test taken by a close relative has confirmed that we are related," Kyle writes on Facebook. "Evidently, I left Indiana in '76 and they have not seen me since then," says Kyle, who now lives in Jacksonville, Fla., and says his family assumed he was dead. He writes on Facebook that he plans on visiting with relatives this week; WJXT says he has "surviving brothers." As for who he really is, "I am reserving my new name for now until I have met my newfound relatives," he writes. And despite the discovery, he thinks he'll stay in Jacksonville. After his story made headlines years ago, a man gave him a job at a restaurant and a place to live. But a verifiable identity and Social Security number will open new doors previously locked by his condition. "Sometimes, the last 10 years [have] been just hell," says Kyle, who has appeared in a documentary and on national TV. Now, "I have a history. I'm not just some stranger that materialized out of thin air." (This man has a 90-minute memory.)