The body of missing New Mexico mom Melissa Casias was found ‘skeletonized’ with a gunshot wound to the skull, propped up in a seated position against a tree in a remote part of the rugged Carson National Forest, the Daily Mail has learned.
Casias, who was 53, vanished from her Taos home in June 2025, leaving her phone, keys and purse behind. She was last seen alive walking east on the 518 Highway that leads out of the city towards the forest.
The case shot to national attention earlier this year amid conspiracy theories that her disappearance was part of a larger pattern
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