It's honestly disgusting how people have made it into a game of trying to figure out who he was. Cutting him open for bone fragments. He died alone in the woods. Was there any reason to think it was caused by malace? No. Then fuck off and let him be.

It's not a "game."

Identifying an unknown deceased person so the next of kin can be notified is part of a normal death investigation, even when there is no foul play.

He seems to have made a positive impact on people who met him on the trail, which is why those people wanted to find out who he was. They wanted to give his friends and family closure.

Sure, you have a high sanctity moral foundation. Many others do not. To me, a dead man with no family ties is just a sequence of tissue arranged in a certain way. I will deal with it as I deal with bark or fungus. There is no person left.

There may have been family waiting for word of him. No one knew at the time.