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by tiew9Vii 1630 days ago
> His identity was confirmed when police found a Facebook page of a now-closed restaurant, Cocina de Manu, which was located nearby. It had posted photos of Gammino wearing chef's clothes and he was identified by a scar on his chin.

I wonder if it was pure luck that the specific restaurant had a police officer look at its Facebook page and identify someone aged 20 years since the last likely photo, or if some image detection/data mining was used that then identified the escapee.