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Updated · The Taos News · May 31Police Identify Remains Found Off Rio Chiquito Road as Missing Since June Melissa Casias
4 articles · Updated · The Taos News · May 31
- New Mexico State Police said Saturday night that human remains found off Rio Chiquito Road southeast of Taos were identified as Melissa Casias.
- Casias, a Ranchos de Taos woman and Los Alamos National Laboratory worker, had been missing since June 2025.
- The identification ties the remains discovery near Taos to a disappearance that had remained unresolved for nearly a year.
What happened to the Los Alamos scientist found with a handgun after she vanished for a year? Is a national security worker's death part of a larger pattern of mysterious disappearances?