Lake Mead: For the fourth time since May, human remains have been found as Lake Mead continues
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to get smaller. According to a National Park Service press statement, rangers responded to a call
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reporting the discovery of human bone remains at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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on Saturday morning. To ascertain the cause of death, the medical examiner for Clark County was
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contacted. Recently, three additional bodies were found in the diminishing lake. According to CNN,
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the first body was found in early May, and investigators are looking into whether it was a homicide
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because they believe it dated to the late 1970s or early 1980s. According to the National Park Service,
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the second set of remains was discovered on May 7 in Callville Bay, and the third on July 25 at Swim Beach.
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In July, dwindling sea levels also made a buried landing ship from World War II visible.
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A representative for the National Park Service told CNN that one interpretation for some of the bones
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is that they could be those of persons who perished in the lake in the 1980s when the water levels were higher.
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