Since news broke Sunday that human skeletal remains were found in the dried-up Mountain Lake, people everywhere have been trying to figure out who they belonged to.
A Vinton woman thinks she may know.
The woman, who is in her 70s and asked that her name not be used by The Roanoke Times, remembers her mother telling her that she had two beaus in the 1920s.
She married one of them, who later became the caller's father.
When the other found out, her mother told her and her sister, he jumped into Mountain Lake. His body was never recovered.
The woman couldn't remember the man's name, but her sister told her she remembered that his last name was Foutz and that he worked at Mountain Lake.
Investigators think the initials carved onto items found near the remains in the lake are SCF.
The tip has been passed along to Giles County investigators, who said it's one of about nine they have received today. Most, they said, are reports of people who went missing decades ago.
A new tangible clue turned up today as well, the sheriff's office said.
Hearing about the remains found in the lake bed Saturday, a woman turned in a Waltham pocketwatch she found that day. She found the watch just two feet from the set of shoes that were next to the remains.
-- Shawna Morrison
