Human remains found in Lake Mead identified as Las Vegas man missing for a quarter century

Human remains found last summer at drought-stricken Lake Mead have been identified as a Las Vegas man missing since July 1998, authorities said Wednesday.

Claude Russell Pensinger was 52 at the time, the Clark County coroner's office said, noting that his bones were found over the course of three days last July and August on newly exposed shoreline near the Boulder Beach swimming area. A cause of death was not determined, a coroner's statement said.

Pensinger was fishing with his brother, who was in a separate boat, when he failed to meet at a location on the lake later in the day, according to documents obtained by CBS affiliate KLAS-TV.