Five months after a diver found what appeared to be a human bone near shore in the western fork of Lake Mead, officials have identified the remains as belonging to a Nevada man who drowned nearly 49 years ago.
The coroner's office in Clark County reportedly confirmed that the skeletal remains were identified as Donald Smith, a former resident of Las Vegas, according to KLAS. Officials said that Smith drowned in the reservoir in April 1974, when he was 39 years old. They reportedly identified the remains using DNA analysis and have ruled the man's death an accident, the news station reported.
CBS News contacted the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner for confirmation but did not receive an immediate reply. Buoys that read 'No Boats' lay on cracked dry earth where water once was at Lake Mead, Nevada, on July 23, 2022.Skeletal remains now linked to Smith were discovered by a concession dive operator on Oct. 17, 2022.
The discovery of Smith's remains marked at least the sixth of its kind in Lake Mead's recreational areas just last year. In May, visiting boaters in Hemenway Harbor spotted a
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