(Taholah, WA) -- Authorities are confirming the discovery of the remains of a former Oregon mayor on a Washington state beach two decades ago. Police say the remains found in 2006 on the Quinault Indian Reservation have finally been identified as those of former Fossil mayor Clarence Edwin Asher. Asher went missing while crabbing in Tillamook Bay about two months before the remains were found, and he was presumed drowned.