Des Moines Police make arrest in hit-and-run cold case 29 years later

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Des Moines Police Department announced Tuesday that it’s made a breakthrough in a vehicular homicide cold case.

On September 29th, 1997, 64-year-old Leslie Ruby was killed outside his east side home by a hit-and-run driver.

Investigators identified the driver as then 28-year-old Gerardo Garcia-Michel, but he fled the state before officers could arrest him…

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