A hiker discovered the body of a missing nuclear laboratory employee, Melissa Casias, in a remote New Mexico forest, police officials announced in an update.
New Mexico State Police, in a Facebook post on May 28, said that the hiker found human remains in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest, along with a handgun.
The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator positively identified the remains as those of 54-year-old Casias, of Taos, who worked as an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key U.S. nuclear research facility in northern New Mexico.
The cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, authorities added. The investigation remains active….