LAS VEGAS – Per week after a decades-old physique was present in receding Lake Mead, authorities in Las Vegas are attempting to establish a second set of newly found human stays.
Two sisters from the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson have been paddle boarding on the drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir once they noticed bones Saturday within the Callville Bay space of the lake.
Lindsey Melvin informed KLAS-TV that they thought at first it was a bighorn sheep, however noticed what gave the impression to be a human jaw and known as park rangers. The National Park Service confirmed in a press release that the bones discovered have been human.
Investigators will not be treating the case as a murder, Las Vegas police stated. The stays are at the moment with the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
The discovery got here after a physique in a barrel was discovered May 1 alongside newly uncovered shoreline of the lake shaped by Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona.
In that case, police stated the physique was a person who had been shot, most likely between the mid-Nineteen Seventies and the early Eighties as a result of he was sporting sneakers manufactured throughout that interval.
Drought has dropped the Lake Mead water degree a lot that Las Vegas’ uppermost water consumption turned seen two weeks in the past.