{"id":83206,"date":"2026-06-01T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83206"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:26:35","slug":"hiker-discovers-body-of-missing-new-mexico-nuclear-lab-worker-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hiker-discovers-body-of-missing-new-mexico-nuclear-lab-worker-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker Discovers Body Of Missing New Mexico Nuclear Lab Worker, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">One of the bodies of the 11 mysteriously missing persons that had potential ties to U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology has been discovered by a hiker in a New Mexico national forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Police have identified the remains of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/missingpersons.dps.nm.gov\/mpweb\/mpdetailreport_serv?id=M100749#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa Casias<\/a>, 54, a missing Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) worker. Her disappearance became part of a wider swirl of speculation over scientists and lab-linked employees who vanished or died under unclear circumstances that spurred President Donald Trump&#8217;s attention and a House Oversight Committee investigation. The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was informed Thursday that the hiker found Casias in the McGaffey Ridge area of the Carson National Forest with a handgun alongside her remains, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/16wS16YsRY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">NMSPBI Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780334795\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Hiker Discovers Body Of Missing New Mexico Nuclear Lab Worker, Police Say\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: One of the bodies of the 11 mysteriously missing persons that had potential ties to U.S. nuclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}