The Mark Clark County coroner’s power said this calendar week that the 4th readiness of human remains found in Lake Mead on Aug. 6 may follow from the same soul as the 3rd set, discovered on July 25. Both remains were found in the receding waters at Swim Beach, a little recreation surface area along the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead.
If a young atomic number 82 picked up past KLAS-TV/Las Vegas is correct, both sets of remains could go to Kenneth Funk. The former Sunset Station cassino employee drowned spell saving his wife’s living near Swim Beach II decades ago. He was 56.
On June 19, 2004, Funk was in a pontoon boat with his wife, Annette, and II other family line members, when a wafture hit. Annette was thrown and twisted from the boat without a life-time jacket. She had simply removed it to alter shirts.
Funk, a former regular army veteran, gash the engine and jumped into the water. At the time, it was 300 feet deep.
“He gave her the living jacket, and they were in the H2O together,” Funk’s daughter, Jessica Condon, told KLAS, “and he treaded H2O as long as he could.”
Funk’s Death
Eventually, according to Condon, he closed in(p) his eyes and went under.
“My dada knew thither was no path come out for him, and he knew that if she held on to him, she would go downwardly with him,” Condon said.
An airplane spotted Annette inward the H2O near 45 minutes later, and she was rescued, according to the KLAS report. Mungo Park rangers searched the water, but Kenneth’s personify was ne'er recovered.
For 18 years, whenever at that place is a drowning come out thither or there’s ever, ‘Hey we found a body come out here,’ I’ve genial of prepared myself for it,” Condon told KLAS.
“At this time, the investigation into these remains includes workings to check whether the II sets of remains are from the same soul or not,” the coroner’s office told the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper.
Judging from photos of the remains posted online, Condon said the partially preserved trunk is “built similar my dad — the stomach the chest, the back.” She also noted her male parent had a unique pit on his breadbasket that she intended to corroborate with the coroner.
First Two Bodies
On May 1, a bbl containing human remains was found nigh Hemenway Harbor. Police believe the remains were from a adult male who died from a headshot wound in the mid-’70s to ahead of time ’80s. Police homicide detectives are investigating.
Six years later, the skeletal remains of another piece were found at Calville Bay. No foul gambol is suspected inward that vitrine or inwards the deuce to a greater extent that followed.
Police experience speculated that more remains may live discovered, as a devastating Western drought continues forcing the Lake Margaret Mead shoreline to back out behind the President Hoover Dam.