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Samantha Lock

Tattoo clue for mystery man in decades-old cold case

A computerised image and some unusual tattoos may help identify a man killed more than 40 years ago. (HANDOUT/NSW POLICE)

A peculiar tattoo and a new computerised image could help police crack a four-decades-old mystery and give closure to a former detective still desperate to solve the case. 

An unidentified man - believed to be using an alias - was struck and killed by a train in Sydney's inner west between Stanmore and Newtown on the afternoon of April 14, 1981.

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