Missing lab worker found dead in New Mexico nearly a year after disappearing

Police have identified the remains of Melissa Casias, 54, a missing Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) worker.

It was one of a number of deaths and disappearances of U.S. scientists and government employees which attracted public attention earlier this year.

The remains will undergo further anthropological examination by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

Casias’s case was among that of about a dozen US scientists who were linked to space, defense and nuclear research – and had either died or disappeared in recent months.