2008.09.23
New clues in the Mountain Lake mystery
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.
I just received a call from my mother which is unusual in itself but when she ask me to go to this web site and look up a "notebook" my curiosty took over and I told her ok let me get off the phone to get online(I have dial up).I called her from my cell to see exactly what I was looking up, she is good about going about to keep you in suspense! She ask if there was an article about a Vinton woman who had spoken to Shawna Morrison about info. on the mystery of the person found at Mtn Lake.I said "mama is that you?" I was like OMG this is to cool, I love a mystery,everything to do with finding clues,etc.She said yes and of course I started with alot of questions. This is exciting I hope her "feelings" she gets about something is right. I also have those "feelings" on occasion and usually it will come out factual. hopefully the remains of this person is whom she thinks it could be, so his family and everyone who knew him can put it to rest.I just hope when people find personal belongings of another they would have enough respect not to hold onto them or sell those items but to turn those items over to the proper people!Because you never know the story behind one mans treasure!:)
Comment by Cindy Harvey — September 25, 2008 @ 10:13 am