Death
The search for Hughes continued despite doubts that he would be found alive. On March 29, 1971, the same day the jury returned death penalty verdicts against all the defendants on all counts, news came that Hughes' badly decomposed body had been found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County. Hughes was positively identified by dental x-rays.
Due to the severe decomposition of the body, the cause and nature of his death was ruled as 'Undetermined'.
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