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More human remains have been found at Lake Mead, marking the third set discovered in the area since early May.
On Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) was alerted about human remains at Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 4:30 p.m. local time, the NPS said in a newsrelease.
Park rangers arrived on the scene and blocked off the area to “recover the remains,” NPS added. The Clark County Medical Examiner has been contacted to determine the cause of death.
The gripping discovery comes afterboaters founda barrel containing the body of a homicide victim in Lake Mead on May 1.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectivesbelievethe victim was killed some time in the mid-1970s to early ’80s, based on the clothing and footwear the victim was found with.
“The victim’s clothes and shoes were sold at Kmart in the mid-to-late 1970s,” Metro Police Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told local news outletKLAS.
“We believe this is a homicide as a result of a gunshot wound,” Lt. Spencer added in the LVMPD’s news release at the time.
Lt. Spencer suggested the discovered remains are a result ofdeclining water levels.
“The water level has dropped so much over the last 30 to 40 years that, where the person was located, if a person were to drop the barrel in the water and it sinks, you are never going to find it unless the water level drops,” Lt. Spencer said in an interview with theLas Vegas Review-Journalin May.
Added Lt. Spencer: “The water level has dropped and made the barrel visible. The barrel did not move. … It was not like the barrel washed up.”
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A second set of remains was found at Lake Mead less than a week later. In that incident, NPS rangers were called to Callville Bay in Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 2 p.m. on May 9 after two paddle boarders found the remains,KLASreported.
Park rangers set up a perimeter and recovered the remains, and the Clark County Medical Examiner was notified.
source: people.com
