Human remains found at diminished Lake Mead in Nevada have been identified as those of 52-year-old Claude Russell Pensinger, of Las Vegas, who disappeared in 1998, Clark County said in a statement Wednesday.
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.As the region experiences its worst drought in 1,200 years, 7 southwestern states have to curb their water usage from the Colorado River Basin and allow water levels to recover.
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