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New Mexico Lab Employee's Remains Found, Raising Disappearance Alarm

6/2/2026

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New Mexico State Police identified Los Alamos lab employee Melissa Casias’s remains in Carson National Forest on Monday.
Hiker found her body with a handgun six miles from where she vanished on June 26, 2025.
President Donald Trump said series of scientist disappearances is pretty serious stuff.
The incident adds to a pattern that includes contractor Steven Garcia’s disappearance and FBI investigation of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland.

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New Mexico State Police identified Los Alamos lab employee Melissa Casias’s remains in Carson National Forest on Monday.
Hiker found her body with a handgun six miles from where she vanished on June 26, 2025.
President Donald Trump said series of scientist disappearances is pretty serious stuff.
The incident adds to a pattern that includes contractor Steven Garcia’s disappearance and FBI investigation of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland.