NUCLEAR LAB WORKER: 2 SHOCK ITEMS IN GRISLY DISCOVERY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
New information surrounding the death of former Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) employee Melissa Casias spurs new questions of whether or not she committed suicide. The last know image of Melissa shows her carrying what appears to be a full backpack. Her skeletonized body was found sitting upright with a bullet wound, and weapon near the body. However, an initial CT scan reportedly found no bullets or projectiles in her skull. Also it was thought that Melissa took nothing with her from her home and her phones were reset to factory setting. We now know that she took her tooth brush and her thyroid medication. Those items would not be needed if a person were planning their own death.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Franc Milburn - former British intelligence officer
- John Nantz - former supervisory special Agent, FBI, Townhall columnist, X, Truth Social, and Instagram: @theJohnnantz, LinkedIn and FB: @johnnantzWebsite: townhall.com/columnists/johnnantz
- Joseph Scott Morgan - professor of forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", YouTube Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Instagram @JoScottForensic
- Lauren Conlin -reporter, LA Magazine, Co-Host of "PopCrimeTV" on YouTube, Website: www.popcrime.tv and primetimecrimeshow.com, X- @Conlin_Lauren, Instagram: @LaurenEmilyConlin, YouTube: @PopCrimeTV
- Sydney Silvagni - investigative reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | Bombshell tonight in the case of dead and missing U.S. scientists with top clearances across the board tonight, a nuclear lab worker dead. |
| 0:26.8 | We find out about two shock items near her dead body in a grisly forest discovery. |
| 0:34.6 | This as the body count, 17. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:42.2 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:49.1 | Melissa Casillas, gun found near her body. |
| 0:55.0 | She was completely skeletonized by the time her body has been found. |
| 1:00.0 | The family says that's not her gun. |
| 1:02.0 | That's not our gun. |
| 1:04.0 | Where did that gun come from? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, none of this makes any sense. |
| 1:08.0 | There are a lot of unanswered questions, especially in Cassius's case. |
| 1:14.6 | We cannot locate my wife. |
| 1:17.3 | We haven't heard from her all day from work. |
| 1:21.0 | It was this morning. |
| 1:21.6 | It was the last time I saw her work. |
| 1:22.9 | My daughter saw her around 1 o'clock. |
| 1:26.3 | All his stuff is here in the house, but she's not here, and it's just not like her to not call home to check in and take her purse and her phone. |
| 1:34.3 | And it looks like her phone has been, my daughter says it looks like it's been reset, but they're, you know, so we left all around the house everywhere on our property. We cannot find her or nothing, and I don't know what to do. |
| 1:48.2 | The car was in, he was parked here at the house. |
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