LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The federal investigation into who dumped more than 300 piles of human remains in the desert outside Las Vegas continues as a funeral home stepped up Wednesday to recover them.

The investigative team with Nexstar's KLAS first reported the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated remains in August. The person who found the ashes later contacted KAS and said he stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight. Searchlight is a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley off U.S. 95.

In August, a Bureau of Land Management official confirmed the piles were human cremains and that the department was actively investigating. “Cremains,” the word the official provided, is a word for human cremated remains.

On Wednesday, representatives from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries removed approximately 315 piles from the desert. A second area containing more piles was found near the dump site in

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