Authorities say skeletal remains discovered on a WashingtonState beach nearly two decades ago have been identified as a former mayor from Oregon.
In a Tuesday, Jan. 13 news release, the Grays Harbor County Coroner’s Office and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office announced that the remains belong to Clarence Edwin Asher, 72, who previously served as the mayor of Fossil.
According to the coroner’s office, Asher was declared legally dead and presumed to have drowned after he vanished while crabbing in Oregon’s Tillamook Bay on Sept. 5, 2006…