US 'prepper' asylum seeker identified from DNA on toothbrush, Kerry inquest hears

Gardaí confirmed there was no suspicion that anyone else was involved in Thomas Stofiel's death

Thomas Stofiel had been the subject of an FBI and police manhunt in Oregon after he went missing in the mountains with his young daughter. 

An American asylum seeker found dead in the Kerry mountains, having gone missing from his accommodation weeks previously, was ultimately identified by matching DNA found on his razor and toothbrush.

The inquest into the death of Thomas Stofiel, a 44-year-old originally from Oregon in the US, also heard that while he was last seen by his roommate at the Atlas House Direct Provision centre in Tralee on September 25, 2020, he was reported as missing on October 6 of the same year.