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GRIMESLAND The family of a Pitt County man missing for three decades believes he was fed piecemeal to hogs by the man who killed him.
Ruben Primrose Wiggins, 50, has been missing since November 1988. His story is just one of dozens of missing persons cases, unidentified bodies and unsolved murders in Eastern North Carolina.
Clues including a suspicious Sunday morning phone call, a bag of marijuana, an abandoned vehicle and a stolen chainsaw point to Ruben Wiggins' dismemberment.
According to his brother Norman Wiggins, Ruben Wiggins lived a quiet life in Grimesland, a small town of about 400 residents that's a 20-minute drive east of Greenville on N.C. 33.
Ruben Wiggins who was ruggedly handsom with a reddish complexion and salt-and-pepper hair never married or fathered children. He worked in Bridgeton for Georgia-Pacific Railroad, a job he held since he was 20 years old. Norman Wiggins said his brother's defining virtue was his generous spirit. And Ruben Wiggins was down to earth: He drove a 10-year-old Oldsmobile. A lovable rogue and black sheep of the Wiggins family; Ruben Wiggins smoked weed and sold a little on the side.
All that changed on Nov. 20, 1988, when Ruben Wiggins received a surprise 10:30 a.m. phone call.
Read more: http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2018/03/25/No-traces-of-missing-man-everfound.html