Lake Mead remains identified as nurse missing since 1986

Remains found at Lake Mead in Arizona have been identified as a California nurse last heard from 39 years ago.

The remains were identified as Carol Ann Riley, who was 42 when she disappeared in April 1986. She was reported missing out of San Diego County, California, and the unidentified remains were found just over a year later, according to officials in Mohave County, Arizona .

Here’s how the most recent development in Riley’s case came about after a 39-year search.

Missing woman had a date with man linked to multiple disappearances

Riley was a nurse who worked at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Around that time, she was dating a man she knew as Robert Howard Smith. She was supposed to go on a dinner date with him in Apr