A man who was found frozen in a cave in Pennsylvania in 1977 has been identified as a former soldier who was born in Croydon, south London.
The ‘Pinnacle Man’ was born in Croydon and ended up dead in a Pennsylvania cave The identity of a frozen corpse found near a popular US hiking trail nearly 50 years ago has been uncovered as a man of British origin. Two hikers found the man’s frozen body on 16 January 1977 in a cave beneath the Pinnacle, a popular viewpoint along the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania.
An FBI agent then matched the autopsy prints and matched them with prints taken from a man who was arrested for a misdemeanor in Colorado in 1975. A local coroner on Tuesday revealed his identity as Nicolas Paul Grubb, a 27-year-old man based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Croydon-born Nicky Grubb moved to Pennsylvania in his youth and did a stint in the National Guard Known by his family as ‘Nicky’, he was born in Croydon, south London, in 1950.
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