BOULDER CITY, Nev.—As Lake Mead in Nevada recedes further due to the ongoing drought, it slowly gives up its secrets.
On May 7, two sisters walking along the sandy banks at Lake Mead National Recreation Area found human skeletal remains.
It would be the second of two gruesome discoveries made at the man-made reservoir this year.
A week earlier, on May 1, a woman from Las Vegas found a rusty barrel at Lake Mead’s Callville Bay. The barrel contained the skull and bones of an apparent homicide victim in disco-era clothing—Kmart brand, no less.
“The first thing that crossed my mind was a question—was this a mob hit? The person was shot in the head. That’s a common technique that’s used by the mob. They were stuffed into a barrel and dumped into a lake,” said Geoff Schumacher, author, journalist, and vice-president of exhibits and programs at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
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