Even with an empty lake people are still flowing into the Mountain Lake Resort. Ever since police discovered remains out there even more are making reservations.
"We've got several reservations...coming this weekend next weekend to check out the mystery for themselves," said Assistant General Manager Marsha Stevers.
"They think it's a murder," said Front Desk Associate Amber Estep. "They think somebody drowned and they're like what happened, what happened."
Anthropologist Donna Boyd hopes to help police answer that question.
She has the remains they dug up and will try to...."determine anything I can from these bones," said Boyd.
Like the age of the person when he or she died, the sex, racial background and any trauma the person experienced before or after death. "The preservation of the remains is not great and we don't have the full skeleton," said Boyd.
Unlike the skeleton in Boyd's office, she says the one found at Mountain Lake is only 20% complete.
It only has parts of the skull, arms and legs. "The preservation could be much better," said Boyd. "It would be wonderful to have more remains, more of this person."
Boyd says it will take a couple of weeks to complete her analysis and gather information on who this person was for Giles County investigators.
In the meantime, managers at Mountain Lake are..."Trying to figure out how they got out into the lake," said Stevers. "Was there an abandoned vehicle? Someone who didn't check out of a room, luggage left? But, so far nothing is coming to mind."
Boyd thinks she will need more bones to help police make a positive identification on the remains.
She believes information from the community is what will really help police crack the case.
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