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Mystery of Missing Scientists Deepens After body of Los Alamos Nuclear Lab Worker Found with Gun

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A body has been recovered of one of the eleven scientists with ties to America’s space and nuclear secrets who have mysteriously died or disappeared. The remains of Melissa Casias, a worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was found by a hiker in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest nearly a year after she went missing.

According to police her body was discovered on May 28th next to a handgun, although her cause of death has yet to be determined.

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