Investigators combing through at least 315 piles of cremated human remains found last summer in empty desert land about an hour outside of Las Vegas have managed to identify just three of them and don’t expect to be able to make any progress on the remaining 312, KLAS 8 News Now reports.
Still pretty impressive that any of them could’ve been identified but it’d seem the large sample size helped. Cops still have no idea why the remains were dumped out there, though one theory is that a funeral home/crematorium went out of business and this was how they disposed of unclaimed ashes. Seems slightly too tidy though and one would think that if they have three names then they’d be able to match them with three death certificates and thus track down the culprit. Plus why wouldn’t the owners of that defunct business have found some other means of dumping the ashes better than friggin 315 (or more) distinct piles in the same patch of desert? Why not Lake Mead?
Something’s really weird and dark about all this. Maybe the failed funeral home/crematorium is the most plausible, prosaic reason but that it’s also the least bad one says a lot and nothing good.