NV NV - Multiple Sets of Human Remains Found in Lake Mead

[watergirl62]

They took DNA from his family early on so probably not.

He is not listed as a rule out on Namus.

 

[Warwick1991]

He is not listed as a rule out on Namus.

NAMUS lists Shaw as 196 pounds, and the rest of the data fits. If the 196 pound weight is from a driver's license, Shaw could have weighed more at the time of death, depending when the license was issued.

 

[branmuffin]

I don't know if this particular article is here but if so, here it is again!

Robert Eugene Shaw, a Mysterious Disappearance, and a Barrel at Lake Mead — Mayhem in the Desert

Police are looking into whether Bobbi Eugene Shaw (aka Robert Eugene Shaw) is the body found in a barrel at Lake Mead in May of 2022. Bobbi Shaw had suspected ties to the Mafia.

www.mayheminthedesert.com

 

[iulia]

Coroner’s office tries to ID body in barrel at Lake Mead through DNA

The coroner’s office has uploaded the man’s DNA profile to a federal database, but an expert says that database is “limited.”

www.reviewjournal.com

[...]
In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Coroner Melanie Rouse said the agency now has a DNA profile, but that the profile is only as good as what it can be compared to.

The profile was uploaded to a federal government database called CODIS on Dec. 8, 2022. CODIS is an acronym for Combined DNA Index System and maintains databases of DNA from criminals, crime scenes and missing people.
[...]
Wheatley said the next step is for the office to meet with a genealogist, but that an appointment hasn’t been set.

 

[iamshadow21]

Coroner’s office tries to ID body in barrel at Lake Mead through DNA

The coroner’s office has uploaded the man’s DNA profile to a federal database, but an expert says that database is “limited.”

www.reviewjournal.com

[...]
In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Coroner Melanie Rouse said the agency now has a DNA profile, but that the profile is only as good as what it can be compared to.

The profile was uploaded to a federal government database called CODIS on Dec. 8, 2022. CODIS is an acronym for Combined DNA Index System and maintains databases of DNA from criminals, crime scenes and missing people.
[...]
Wheatley said the next step is for the office to meet with a genealogist, but that an appointment hasn’t been set.

Genealogy is the way to go on this one, for sure. Everything suggests that this Doe ended up in the lake in the seventies or eighties, at the latest. Fifty years.

MOO