Nevada
Human skull found in Nye County, authorities look for answers
Authorities on Tuesday asked for information from the public after a human skull was found near Pahrump on Sunday.
According to a Facebook post, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said dispatch received a report Sunday evening from hikers about a possible human skull found near Barney Road and Nye Road in the Shadow Mountain area, west of Pahrump.
Detectives with the sheriff’s office went to the scene and confirmed that the skull was human, according to the Facebook page.
As of Tuesday, Nye County officials said in the Facebook post, investigators could not be certain how long the skull had been in the location where it was found.
The skull was set to be submitted to the Clark County coroner’s office for DNA analysis in an effort to identify the person and the person’s cause of death.
Anyone with information related to the case is asked to contact the Nye County Sheriff’s Office at 775-751-7000, option 5, according to the post.
Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X.