The unusual circumstances of a body being found frozen in a cave in the mountains, and the inability to identify his body, led to the Pinnacle Man becoming a national mystery. It made national newspapers in the 1970s and has endured in the public consciousness as a famous unsolved case.
After authorities could not identify the Pinnacle Man, his case went cold and his fingerprints were lost. The case was reopened in 2019 when NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, flagged a pair of missing people as potentially having the same dental records as the then-unidentified body.
After the body was exhumed, the dental records proved that the body didn’t match those missing people, but it brought the case back to the attention of authorities.
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