This is Part 4 of a four-part MLive investigation into the killing of an unidentified man whose body was found by a 9-year-old boy on a remote Jackson County hill in 1986. The case quickly and quietly faded from public view, even after authorities ruled it a homicide. Nearly 40 years later, the victim has been identified, and police have renewed their efforts to find the killer.
Part 4: ‘I wake up and feel like he’s floating above me’
By 2019, police had a match – dental records showed the body on the hill was 25-year-old Robert Stuewe, a line cook from Ann Arbor who had been reported missing a few months before the body was found in 1986…