Human remains found at diminished Lake Mead in Nevada have been identified as those of a 52-year-old man who disappeared in 1998.
Lake Mead is seen in the distance behind mostly dead plants in an area of dry, cracked earth that used to be underwater near Boulder Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada on June 12, 2021.Human remains found at diminished Lake Mead in Nevada have been identified as those of a 52-year-old man who disappeared in 1998, Clark County said in a statement Wednesday.
The skeletal remains were identified by the county medical examiner's office as those of Claude Russell Pensinger, of Las Vegas, it said. The remains were found on three different dates — July 25, Aug. 6 and Aug. 16 — but all were his, the office said. They were found on the shoreline of Boulder Beach, on the Nevada side of the huge reservoir north of Hoover Dam.An article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal from July 20, 1998, said Pensinger was fishing when heAs water levels at Lake Mead dropped, a number of sets of humans remains were found, including a series of discoveries starting last May.
The remains of another person, Donald P. Smith of North Las Vegas, Nevada, were found Oct. 17 and Oct. 19. Smith
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