Researchers claim they’ve ID’ed Mountain Lake remains

The layered mystery at Mountain Lake is unfolding.
   
Two brothers, one from Virginia and one from Maryland say they’ve successfully closed the case and have the name everyone has been waiting for, Samuel Felder.
   
All the evidence found served as small clues into an unknown man’s life, but two tokens gave this mystery legs.
“The main item was the ring, because once you can identify what college it came from it clearly on the ring 04, so that would have been 1904 and then the belt buckle initials were the clue that allowed you to find out what the guys name was,” said Jim Dalmas, in a phone interview from Maryland.
   
Dalmas makes it sound easy, but many questions have been looming since the remains, class ring, watch, shoes and belt buckle were found almost exactly a month ago.
   
Dalmas took the initials and ring and called a number of schools searching for answers.
“I hadn’t gotten to Clemson when the sheriff’s office discovered that the ring had come from Clemson University,” he said.
   
Clemson had three graduates of 1904 with the initials S.F.

After Dalmas narrowed it down to who he thought the mystery man was he did some searching and found a newspaper article from 1921 and in the headline it said “S. I. Felder, Troy, N.Y. Falls Overboard at Mountain Lake; Drowns.”

“As far as I was concern once we found the newspaper article from South Carolina it was a slam dunk,” Dalmas said.

Giles County investigators aren’t confirming the identity of the mystery man.
   
They tell 10 On Your Side they’re still waiting for a family member to come forward, so they can make a DNA match.