Father and Son Hikers Die in Stifling National Park

The heat wave scorching the western US likely played a role in the death of a father and son from Texas. 

Robert Stuart Pluta, 57, and son Bobby, 21, set off on a hiking trip in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico Thursday. The first of the men's bodies was found four days later, around 10pm Monday, hours after Lillian Pluta reported her husband and son missing after failing to reach them over the weekend and learning they hadn't check out of their room, KRIS reports. 

A second body was found on Tuesday morning about a mile from the first. The Plutas' red Ford truck was found at the Rattlesnake Canyon trailhead about 4pm on Monday and a search commenced, the Current-Argus reports.

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