Crime & Safety
Salt Creek Body Identified as Man Last Seen in January
The 54-year-old homeless man found in the river near Graue Mill was identified by a tiny fingerprint on one finger, a print that was matched to an arrest record, The Doings reports.
The human body found in Salt Creek near Graue Mill on the Hinsdale-Oak Brook border has been identified as a 54-year-old homeless man named Michael Hardin, last seen at a PADS shelter in January, The Doings Hinsdale reports.
According to the paper, the DuPage County Coroner's Office was able to identify the body based on a tiny bit of fingerprint skin that survived the body's "advanced decomposition," which matched Hardin's from a previous arrest record; the cause of death appeared to be drowning.
Officias told the paper that it is unknown where or when Hardin died, saying that the floods of mid-April could have brought his body from any of several bodies of water upstream from Salt Creek.
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Hardin's "badly decomposed" body was found on the morning of Thursday, April 18 body by a passerby who was aiding family in the flooding near the footbridge on the east side of York Road and north of Spring Road.
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