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.
A cause of death was not determined, Clark County said in the statement.
An article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal from July 20, 1998, said Pensinger was fishing when he disappeared from his boat, which was found running in circles, the newspaper reported Wednesday.
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As water levels at Lake Mead dropped, a number of sets of humans remains were found, including a series of discoveries starting last May.
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