http://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-bodies-may-turned-soapy-substance-forensic-scientist-1732121

The bodies discovered in Lake Mead may have turned into a soapy substance, a forensic scientist said.

Lake Mead, a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam in Nevada and Arizona, is rapidly evaporating because of a mega-drought. Water levels are now the lowest they have been since 1937. And, before now, the lake had been concealing a multitude of human remains.