Identified! NV - Las Vegas, *GRAPHIC*, Skull found on Lake Mead shoreline, 2nd discovery in week, May'22 - Thomas Erndt

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PatLaurel said:
@yurintroubl it's a 1977 Coors beer can. The one you posted is from 1959.
https://www.molsoncoorsblog.com/sites/mcblog/files/uploads/2019/01/Banquet-Can-Lineup.jpg

See how the 12 is centered right below the "oo" in Coors?

It may have nothing to do with the remains, as @summergirl1 said, but if it does, we know it was between 1977 and 1979. The Coors Banquet can changed its label again in 1978.

MOO JMO
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Good eye. Looking at it again now - I can see the very slight contrast between the silver and gold color blocks behind the writing. Cheers!
 
Bodies surfacing in Lake Mead recall mob’s time in Las Vegas

"There was no immediate evidence of foul play, Las Vegas police said Monday, and they are not investigating. A homicide probe would be opened if the Clark County coroner determines the death was suspicious, the department said in a statement."

"David Kohlmeier, a former police officer who now co-hosts a Las Vegas podcast and fledgling TV show called “The Problem Solver Show,” said Monday that after offering a $5,000 reward last week for qualified divers to find barrels in the lake, he heard from people in San Diego and Florida willing to try.

But National Park Service officials said that’s not allowed, and that there are hundreds of barrels in the depths — some dating to the construction of Hoover Dam in the 1930s."
 
From AOL News:

More Human Remains Discovered at Lake Mead After Body Found in Barrel​

According to authorities, more human remains were found at drought-stricken Lake Mead in Nevada, just days after boaters discovered a decomposing body in a barrel.

Rangers with the National Park Service got a call Saturday afternoon when a visitor reported finding human skeletal remains at Callville Bay in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The responding rangers set up a perimeter to recover the remains. The Clark County medical examiner will determine the victim’s cause of death.

“The investigation is ongoing,” NPS officials said. “No further information is available at this time.”

The frightening find was made by two paddleboarders at the largest reservoir in the US. The pair first saw what they believed to be a rock, but upon further inspection realized it consisted of bones.

There were no immediate signs of foul play, sources close to the matter told the station. The remains were discovered six days after another visitor near Hemenway Harbor found a body in a barrel believed to be a murder victim who could have been killed in the mid-1970s or ’80s.

The barrel, which was stuck in mud at the lake’s receding shorelines, was exposed due to low water levels amid an ongoing drought. The massive, 85-year-old reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River provides water for some 25 million people, as well as for millions of acres of farmland in California, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico.

Las Vegas police said they feared finding more human remains as the lake continues to be plagued by historically low levels due to rising temps and drought.

“I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains,” Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer said.

Investigators believe the barrel was fully intact when it was dropped into the lake, which would have been several dozen feet deep at that location decades earlier, investigators told the station.

“I think anybody can understand there are probably more bodies that have been dumped in Lake Mead,” Spencer said. “It’s just a matter of, are we able to recover those?”

The lake’s water level as of Monday was 1,052 above sea level, online data shows. That’s the lowest level on record since the reservoir was filed in the 1930s.
 
‘This could be my dad’: Man suspects remains exposed at Lake Mead might be father based on photos of teeth
Jun 17, 2022

*Video at link*
SBM

A man raised in Las Vegas man believes skeletal remains found at Lake Mead last month could be those of his father, who died more than six decades ago. Daniel Kolod was 22 when he drowned in Callville Bay, on the northwest shore of the lake, in 1958. His body was never recovered.

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One clue concerns Daniel Kolod’s teeth. He was in a car crash a few years before he drowned and lost his front teeth, Todd Kolod said, adding that his father wore a partial denture. [snip] When shown photos of the remains, Staten observed only four teeth. She believes the skeleton is missing its front teeth, and that this person was missing other teeth before their death.

*At link* A photo of the skeletal remains discovered at Lake Mead in May 2022. (Lindsey Melvin/KLAS)
 
YaYa_521 said:
‘This could be my dad’: Man suspects remains exposed at Lake Mead might be father based on photos of teeth
Jun 17, 2022

*Video at link*
SBM

A man raised in Las Vegas man believes skeletal remains found at Lake Mead last month could be those of his father, who died more than six decades ago. Daniel Kolod was 22 when he drowned in Callville Bay, on the northwest shore of the lake, in 1958. His body was never recovered.

SNIP

One clue concerns Daniel Kolod’s teeth. He was in a car crash a few years before he drowned and lost his front teeth, Todd Kolod said, adding that his father wore a partial denture. [snip] When shown photos of the remains, Staten observed only four teeth. She believes the skeleton is missing its front teeth, and that this person was missing other teeth before their death.

*At link* A photo of the skeletal remains discovered at Lake Mead in May 2022. (Lindsey Melvin/KLAS)
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I don't see how a man drowning accidentally could end up in a barrel.

Edit: Never mind, I see that those remarks do not refer to the original UID.
 
National Park Service personnel are investigating another witness report of human remains found at Lake Mead, the agency announced Monday.

Few details were made available about the apparent discovery at the time of the announcement, which the NPS released soon after park rangers received the witness report around 4:30 p.m. EST. According to the NPS, an unidentified person uncovered the body while visiting a portion of Lake Mead National Recreation Area called Swim Beach, located in the reservoir's boulder basin area about 30 miles east of Las Vegas.
www.cbsnews.com

More human remains discovered at Lake Mead as water level sinks amid severe drought

Another body was found at Lake Mead this week, following several similar reports in May.
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One of the most famous lines from "The Godfather" may be playing out in real life as Lake Mead dries up and a third body turns up. "Sleeping with the fishes" is a notorious description of what happened to some organized crime figures after they were murdered by the mob. Police and the FBI are looking into whether the three bodies that surfaced outside Las Vegas, are three Chicago Outfit soldiers missing in action for more than 40 years.

Entombed in mud, a body became visible as Lake Mead continues to dry up. The coroner of Clark County, Nevada, police near Las Vegas and federal agents are working to identify this latest corpse and two others found a few months ago in the receding waters. The two skeletons were found by passersby, one on the parched beach; the other in a rusty oil drum. Both had been shot in the back.

"It's possible, of course, that the bodies that are turning up in Lake Mead are mob related...related to the Tony Spilotro years in Las Vegas," Chicago mob expert and author John Binder told the I-Team.

Binder said Anthony "Ant" Spilotro, who ran Vegas for the Chicago mob into the 1980's, had a hand in "disappearing" untold numbers of people who had "run afoul of organized crime."

Authorities are looking at whether the newly surfaced bodies include Jay Vandermark, a former slot machine manager for the mobbed-up Stardust casino, and Johnny Pappas, an Outfit-connected Chicagoan. Both men vanished in 1976. And could the latest body found be Billy "Bahama" Crespo, who was a mob drug courier?

"Those aren't big names per se. So, we're not talking about people that are really famous. But there's a variety of different ways to get on the wrong side of the outfit, and especially get on the wrong side of an affair with Tony Spilotro, and it could be very well that those are the dead people," said Binder.

He said while it would have been easier for Tony Spilotro to simply dump victims in the desert, perhaps he chose Lake Mead to deflect attention from the Outfit's then-burgeoning casino skimming business.

As it was, in 1986, Spilotro and his brother Michael were found dead in an Indiana cornfield grave.

There is no instruction manual for disposing of Outfit operatives. Johnny Roselli, one of Chicago's most notorious Chicago hoodlums, was found in a barrel in Biscayne Bay, Florida, in 1976. That's the same year a suspected Lake Mead victim vanished. But it may be that all three unidentified Lake Mead bodies had no Chicago mob ties, and all of this is pure coincidence.
abc7chicago.com

Is third corpse found in receding Lake Mead a missing Chicago mobster?

One of the most famous lines from "The Godfather" may be playing out in real life as Lake Mead dries up and a third body turns up.
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Seems like the mobsters had a fondness for taking victims quite a distance from their normal haunts. Maybe these people are from farther away, LA maybe.
 
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