OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Divers mapping human remains near a 75-year-old car crash in Lake Crescent on Saturday have uncovered what they think is a third human bone.
The discovery came during the first day of a National Park Service dive team’s effort to document and remove two other bones that were found earlier this year in more than 150 feet of water near the wreckage of a 1927 Chevrolet.
“It appears to be a human bone,” Kevin Hendricks, Olympic National Park assistant chief ranger, said Saturday evening of the most recent find.
All three bones — what may be a skull and two femurs — are submerged near the Chevrolet that husband and wife Russel and Blanch Warren were driving when they disappeared in 1929 en route from Port Angeles to their Bogachiel-area logging camp.
Their car plunged off what is now U.S. Highway 101 near Meldrim Point, west of Barnes Point.
Though the bones’ proximity to the car suggests they are the remains of the Warrens, the bones have not been tested to prove who they came from.