LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Officials have identified some of the more than 300 piles of cremated remains located in the desert outside of Las Vegas.
Investigators with Nexstar’s KLAS first reported the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated remains in August. The person who found the ashes said he stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight, a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley.
In August, a Bureau of Land Management official confirmed the piles were human cremains and that the department was actively investigating. (“Cremains,” the term the official provided, refers to human cremated remains. What are generally referred to as “ashes” are pulverized bone, which are left over after a person is cremated.)…