A Grant County cold case is getting new life thanks to help from the Scott County Coroner.
Coroner John Goble is going to exhume the victim’s body in hopes of retrieving DNA that will help investigators identify the man.
In 1989, a farmer found the body of a man inside his Grant County barn. Authorities say he was hanged, shot, then someone cut off his hands so he couldn’t be identified through fingerprints. Nearly 30 years later we still don’t know his name, but now police are turning to Goble for help.
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Goble recently helped exhume the body of a young boy killed by a train back in 1921. Goble was brought in to try and collect DNA from his remains to see if officials could find a match with relatives. It was during this exhumation that a detective in the Grant County cold case asked if Goble could help him.
NAMUS, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, is helping too. Goble’s wife, Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Emily Craig, plays a major role in that organization.
Todd Matthew of NAMUS plans to be at the exhumation next month.
The hope is DNA collected from relatives of missing loved ones will match this victim.
