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As the water level of the country’s largest artificial lake continues to drop due to drought, human bodies continue to emerge and for the second time once in seven days, human remains have been discovered in Lake Mead, near Las Vegas.
The information was released by the rangers of the United States National Park Service, who said that human skeletal remains were found around 2 pm on Saturday at Lake Mead near Callville Bay. The Clark County Medical Examiner collected the remains and is working to identify the person and determine the cause of death. .
Another body found in Lake Mead amid plunging water levels https://t.co/FOFKSlvY8K A lake turned into a clandestine cemetery. Authorities continue to find bodies. If the place had been populated, it would not have been used as a cemetery.— Lydia Chaparro Varela (@chaparro_varela) May 10, 2022
The discovery came a week after the decomposed body of a man was found stuffed in a steel barrel near the Hemenway Fishing Pier, a more than 05 miles from Callville, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Vegas.
“We believe this to be a homicide as a result of a gunshot wound ”, said Lt. Ray Spencer, head of the homicide section of the LVMPD, about the body found on May 1.
Spencer said that the Clark County Medical Examiner is trying to identify the body, while detectives believe n that the man was murdered in the mid-1990s 1970 and early 1990s 1980 due to their clothes and shoes.
Regarding the second body found on Saturday, LVMPD officials said they found no evidence to suggest a crime.
Saturday’s discovery of the skeletal remains was made by two sisters, Lindsey and Lynette Melvin, who said they were paddling on the lake because the water was too shallow for snorkeling.
Then they stopped to explore a sandbar that they said used to be underwater before a prolonged drought brought the level down to historic lows.
At first, sister thought it was the remains of a bighorn sheep. They then discovered a human jawbone with teeth still attached and reported it to National Park Service rangers.
“We really hope that person’s family finally gets answers and that his soul rests in peace,” said Lynette Melvin.
The sisters said they grew up in Las Vegas and have heard rumors of mob hit men dumping bodies into the lake.
Geoff Schumacher, a mob historian and vice president of exhibits and programs at the Museum of The Mafia in Las Vegas told ABC News on Monday that the discoveries of the bodies, especially the man found in the barrel, have reignited those rumors.
“Certainly, Las Vegas has a history with the mob and there have been people who have gone missing in this area over the years who may have been victims of the violence of the mob. But I don’t recall a case where we’ve had something like this, where we found a body in a barrel that washed up in Lake Mead,” Schumacher said.
Schumacher said that disposing of a body in a barrel is a classic mafia technique dating back to the 1880.
He said one famous case was that of Chicago gangster John “Handsome Johnny” Roselli, who helped the mob take over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli disappeared after testifying in 1975 before the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about an alleged conspiracy to assassinate to President John F. Kennedy.
Roselli’s decomposing remains were discovered in 1976 inside a steel barrel of 55 gallons that a fisherman found floating in Dumfoundling Bay, near Miami. An autopsy determined that Roselli died of asphyxiation.
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