I already started a thread a few days ago about Lake Mead being at historically low levels: https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sh...is-now-visible

People were wondering if this might unearth some bodies. Indeed it has.

A skeleton in a barrel was found. While the person's identity is unknown, there were personal items in the barrel which make it likely the victim was killed in the 1980s.

As soon as I heard a body was found in a barrel, I envisioned a 1980s mob hit (before I read it actually was from the '80s), and I'm guessing I'm correct.

The mob's last stand in Vegas was in the 1980s. They were pushed out by the corporate takeover of the strip in the early 1990s. The movie "Casino" depicted mob life in Vegas between 1975 and 1986. As a teenager visiting Vegas in the 1980s, I still felt the mob presence, and then I noticed the different feel of the town in the mid-1990s when they were gone.

It will surprise me if any bodies found in the lake date to murders after 1992.

Here's a Reuters article about it: https://canoe.com/news/crime/body-in...2-1d920e686509


If you want to see the actual skeleton, which was described as "graphic" but actually isn't, go to the NY Post article: https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/body-f...d-authorities/


I'm guessing the victim was not dropped into the lake alive. He/she was likely already dead, and the barrel was probably the means of hiding it in the lake, which the mob (correctly) theorized would not be discovered any time soon.

There is a chance that this was not a mob hit, and was an unrelated murder, but given the 1980s timeframe, I'd say it was probably the mafia.

Will this be a new exhibit at the Mob Museum?