Thanks to the FBI, the mystery of the “Pinnacle Man” was resolved found in a cave almost five decades ago
After almost five decades, Berks authorities, Pennsylvania, identified The body of a man who died frozen in a cave in 1977. The victim, who died at age 27, was identified as Nicholas Paul Grubb, a resident of the small town of Fort Washington.
46 years passed from the incident. The autopsy determined that the subject, better known as the “Pinnacle Man”, died from drug overdose And not frozen, as believed in the first instance. In addition, with this new information, the police could rule out that it was a crime.
Grubb, what had served for the National Guard of Pennsylvania For a couple of years, it was found in a cave in the city of Pinnacle, Albany, in the vicinity of a hiking area. Local authorities found the identity of man after a Exhaustive search for material to maintain open research.
The Berks County Forensic Office declared that a Penylvania Police detective, whose name is unknown, managed to find in the digital footprints of the “Pinnacle Man” and this sent them to Namusm, a database from the United States of missing people. In the span of an hour, he FBI He discovered that it was Grubb.
When the incident occurred, the local authorities took Dental samples and fingerprints of the body in order to determine the identity of the subject. But the problem was that in the database of the police no coincidence was found, so the identity of the subject could not be determined until today.
Since the beginning of the century the forensic office is in a arduous task to identify unresated bodies. In the last 15 years, the body was compared without success with the identity of 10 other missing people. In addition, in 2019, the body was tried to exhume to obtain new DNA tests, but the petition was flatly rejected.
Before finding the identity of the body, local forensics had begun to see with good eyes the option to bury the latest the deceased so that it could rest in peace. The Forensic Office counted, based on the decision to continue with the case, that the victim’s family She was very grateful for all the effort that was dedicated to research.
