Remains believed to be those of missing ex-air traffic controller

Human remains recovered successful the godforsaken adjacent Indian Springs Sunday are believed to those of a Las Vegas retiree missing for much than 7 months, his woman said Friday.

Barbara Schultz said authorities called her this week to fto her cognize they judge they’ve recovered her missing husband, John Schultz. The 60-year-old retired aerial postulation controller went missing from Las Vegas successful March portion moving a part-time occupation arsenic a rideshare driver, prompting a monthslong hunt for him by family, constabulary and volunteers.

“It is believed to beryllium him,” Barbara Schultz said. “They are beauteous overmuch 99 percent sure. …We convey everybody for their prayers and their outreach and everything they’ve done and said.”

Wildlife surveyor Colden McClurg, 36, said helium was moving successful a distant country astir six miles southwest of Indian Springs, adjacent the basal of the Spring Mountains, connected Sunday erstwhile helium discovered remains and covering disconnected an unnamed two-track road. He described the tract arsenic conscionable northbound of Willow Creek Road.

McClurg promptly called authorities. A Bureau of Land Management officer, past Metropolitan police, responded to the scene. McClurg, too, was yet told by constabulary that they believed the remains were those of John Schultz.

“They were beauteous definite they thought this is who it was due to the fact that immoderate of the covering matched the statement of the missing person,” McClurg said.

Schultz ‘s Toyota Prius was recovered abandoned by constabulary successful the Spring Mountains adjacent Wheeler Pass 4 days aft helium vanished.

Metro spokesperson Aden OcampoGomez successful an email confirmed the find of remains adjacent “Wheeler Peak and Willow Creek roads” extracurricular of Indian Springs. He declined to accidental whether constabulary judge the remains are Schultz. The Clark County coroner’s bureau is investigating.

“The recognition of the decedent, arsenic good arsenic the origin and mode of death, volition beryllium released by the coroner’s office,” OcampoGomez said.

The Schultz household said antecedently that constabulary theorized that John Schultz had a aesculapian episode, prompting him to thrust into the agrarian Nevada landscape. His loved ones, however, questioned the mentation and said they cognize of nary crushed Shultz would person gone retired to the agrarian country to statesman with.

They described Schultz arsenic a loving husband, begetter and grandfather.

“Everybody has sent maine messages saying that helium was specified an honorable friend, begetter and grandfather,” Barbara Schultz said Friday. “He volition beryllium truthful missed by everyone.”

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