Hiker finds human remains at bottom of drained lake
Jun 20, 2012, 6:11 AM | Updated: 8:31 am
A hiker found a human bone on the bottom of Lake Aldwell, which was exposed earlier this year by the removal of the Elwha Dam. (Clallam County Sheriffs Department)
(Clallam County Sheriffs Department)
A hiker found a human bone on the bottom of Lake Aldwell,
which was exposed earlier this year by the removal of the
Elwha Dam.
“They picked up what they thought was a stick, and was
going to throw it for their dog and they noticed it was a
bone,” says Detective Lyman Moores, with the Clallam
County Sheriff’s Office.
Archeologists for Olympic National Park and the Elwha
Tribe determined it was not an ancient Indian and turned
it over to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office says a cadaver dog indicated there
may be more human remains near where the bone was found
May 15 by a hiker.
“The dog alerted to four different locations within about
twenty feet of where the bone was originally found,” says
Moores.
The Peninsula
Daily News reports investigators are digging up the
site, which is about a mile south of the Highway 101
bridge on the Elwha River.
Moores says the remains might belong to a woman named
Karen Tucker who was last seen near the Elwha River in
1991.
Authorities plan to conduct a DNA test to determine if the
remains are that of the missing woman.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
