Police found the man on Dec. 4, 1991, in the Boston Harbor near Thompson Island. An autopsy performed by the at the time ruled his death a homicide. After 33 years, the victim was identified as Toussaint Gonsalves, who was 21 years at the time of his death.

For 33 years nobody knew the name of the man whose body was found with a stab wound in the Boston Harbor, near Thompson Island, on Dec. 4, 1991. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at the time ruled the man’s death a homicide,

The man, Toussaint Gonsalves, 21, was found stabbed to death on Dec. 4, 1991, in the harbor near Thompson Island, police said in a statement.