The Region - News from March 17, 1986

A trail of blood led police from the body of a dead man found in a Wilmington field to a murder suspect. Harbor Division officers at first believed the 50-year-old man was the victim of a hit-and-run accident until the trail of blood led them to a nearby vacant office building on East Anaheim Street, where they found a bloodied Leslie Charles Grosch, 47, living. Grosch was booked on suspicion of murder. “The motive appeared to revolve around disparaging remarks made by the victim about the suspect’s fiancee,” a police spokesman said. The victim, who was not identified pending notification of his family, had been beaten several times with a blunt instrument.