(Iowa) — Cold case investigators in northern California believe a Des Moines man may have been the victim of a decades-old unsolved homicide.
Investigators say after extensive genetic testing, the body of a man found burned alive 1972 may be that of Grover Benjamin Hughes of Des Moines. Hughes was born in July of 1894 and was known to have spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area prior to the 1960s. Investigators say the body was found wearing a hospital gown and near the site of a tuberculosis treatment center that closed in 1972. The body was found with a few personal items consistent with a hospital stay, but none that confirmed the victim’s identity…