On 16th January 1977, 2 hikers ducked inside a cave to escape inclement weather and found a body in a Pennsylvania cave. The body was found frozen in cave just below the Pinnacle in Albany Township ( it is a hiking area 75 miles ( 122 KM ) northwest of Philadelphia ).
The postmortem examination determined that " Pinnacle Man " died from a drug overdose.
When body was found, it was wearing light clothing and neither had camping gear nor food, and there was evidence that he tried to start a fire, suggesting he was not ready for the snowy conditions.
Multiple attempts were unsuccessful to identify the body in last 47 years ( almost 5 decades i.e. 50 years ). Finger prints were taken but were somehow original fingerprints got misplaced that time and the copies were in poor condition to be used in identification. Authorities tried every possible way using dental records, clothing and belongings to identify the body but no success.
Break came in last month ( August 2024 ) when a Police officer found the missing fingerprints of " Pinnacle Man ". Finger prints were sent to the Finger prints data base and within an hour the " Pinnacle Man " was identified as Nicholas Paul Grubb from Fort Washington, Pennsylvania who was 27 year old at the time of death.
Grubb, affectionately known as "Nicky" to his family had been a member of Pennsylvania's army national guard in the early 1970s. He had a police interaction in Colorado two years before his death, this encounter led his fingerprints to be stored in the Automated Fingerprint Identification System and then later became the reason of his identification.
Relatives of Grubb were notified, the family members asked the office to place Grubb's remains in a family plot.
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