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

[buyerninety]

carbuff said;
"I was thinking of looking on the newly exposed shoreline
for more barrels like this one, or just bones. That would
only take a boat and somebody with binoculars."

I guess a number of people are already rubbernecking
about the area of the Hemenway Harbor boat ramp
where the barrel was found, which I tentatively place
somewhere on this peninsular of sand, which would
have been underwater, a bit more than 800 metres
horizontally from the 1980 boat launch shoreline;

https://goo.gl/maps/DoV2guduDMnJ2J4H8

An alternative posible place to look for bodies/barrels
might be in the Lake Mead sand & shallow water along
up to 2km east of the Las Vegas Bay Marina Overlook,
because the 2022 shoreline is now about up to that
distance from a (near to Las Vegas) 1980's nearby
former boat launch downroad;

https://goo.gl/maps/W8boTvyqoSra85Fp8

https://historicaerials.com/location/36.11890/-114.86504/2004/16

https://historicaerials.com/location/36.11890/-114.86504/1980/16

Around Boulder Harbor Launch Ramp is another possible
area of interest, if you're inclined to go a body/barrel
searching.

 

[sds71]

Retired Las Vegas police officers offering reward for divers who find more bodies in Lake Mead

 

[hafom8840]

Is John Doe actually in skeletal condition? I saw the uncensored photo and his leg looked mummified honestly.

 

[subaw0067]

Poor person.
I hope they weren't still alive when they were put in the barrel

According to CBS this was a gunshot homicide victim.

 

[airportwoman]

From what I read, it is a source of water for several southern states in the US. Doesn't sound that appealing to me at moment

The Mississippi River is my own personal source of water. Heaven only knows what's in it.

 

[GatorFL]

The Mississippi River is my own personal source of water. Heaven only knows what's in it.

Here in South FL the majority of our drinking water comes from canals; the backup supply is Lake Okeechobee. Thankfully, there are water treatment plants because probably all of us are getting water from above-ground sources and who knows what is in it? Still, my mind goes to the Hotel Cecil guests when Elisa Lam was floating around in the water tank.

I am awaiting further discoveries on Lake Mead, I do think there could be more.

I hope this is a quick solve because I wonder what the story is on this guy.

 

[hafom8840]

Here in South FL the majority of our drinking water comes from canals; the backup supply is Lake Okeechobee. Thankfully, there are water treatment plants because probably all of us are getting water from above-ground sources and who knows what is in it? Still, my mind goes to the Hotel Cecil guests when Elisa Lam was floating around in the water tank.

I am awaiting further discoveries on Lake Mead, I do think there could be more.

I hope this is a quick solve because I wonder what the story is on this guy.

Assuming the tips are not a bunch of “Im leaving a tip even though I know zilch about all this” and “He’s from [somewhere he isn’t from], we are NOT part of the mafia and we did NOT kill him”, I think this could be solved fast

 

[Ozoner]

The Mississippi River is my own personal source of water. Heaven only knows what's in it.

Phil Ochs wrote a song about that:
Here's to the State of Mississippi,
For underneath her borders
The devil draws no line.
If you drag her muddy rivers,
Nameless bodies you will find.
Oh, the fat trees of the forest
Have hid a thousand crimes.
The calendar is lyin'
When it reads the present time.
Oh-o-o, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of.
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of.

[M]y mind goes to the Hotel Cecil guests when Elisa Lam was floating around in the water tank.

As I recall, the reason that they found her body was that the hotel guests reported that the water had an unpleasant taste.

In Germany back in the 80s and 90s, groundwater was often the source of drinking water, and there was a problem in that the water was routinely contaminated by the decaying corpses in graveyards—so people were literally drinking dead bodies. I don't know whether that situation has been corrected, but if I travel to Germany again, I'll be buying Perrier imported from France.

 

[GatorFL]

I'll be buying Perrier imported from France.

I've got cases of it from Costco in the garage! I prefer Topo Chico though.

 

[vls12345]

I've got cases of it from Costco in the garage! I prefer Topo Chico though.

An aside to the thread and fyi... (I was bummed because I like Topo Chico too.)

Topo Chico Cuts PFAS Levels by More Than Half in New Tests by Consumer Reports

New tests by Consumer Reports found Topo Chico cut PFAS levels by more than half, but levels in the popular carbonate water brand were still above a cutoff some experts think is more appropriate.

www.consumerreports.org

 

[LunaInvidia]

With estranged family in the casino business (and with mafia ties)... nothing about this surprises me, TBH. I hope they find his name and family soon so he can rest in peace.

 

[carbuff]

Is John Doe actually in skeletal condition? I saw the uncensored photo and his leg looked mummified honestly.

It's probably adipocere, which is a fatty product produced as a body decays in water.

 

[RyGuy611]

A second body was found.

 

[GatorFL]

A second body was found.

Interesting the authorities thought more remains would be found.

 

[dotr]

May 7, 2022

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/may/07/more-human-remains-found-at-lake-mead/

''Human remains were found at Lake Mead on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Park Service, marking the second body found there this week.

Rangers were alerted shortly after 2 p.m. by witnesses who said they saw skeletal remains in Lake Mead’s Callville Bay, the Park Service said in a news release. Rangers were on scene as of 7:15 p.m. to set up a perimeter and recover the remains, the Park Service said. The Clark County Medical Examiner has been notified to determine the cause of death, according to the release. No other information was released.

It’s the second such incident officials are investigating.''

The Lake Mead Barrel of Human Remains Isn’t the First Murder in a Barrel

Disposal of bodies in barrels has been done multiple times

medium.com

Cathy Coombs

''When did barrel murders start?​

Barrels have served as a method for disposing of the bodies of murder victims since the 1800s. The earliest recording of a barrel murder was in 1895 and 1900 in New York.''

Many of the barrel victims were Italian immigrants. Once they were killed, they were put in a barrel. The barrel murders would eventually lead authorities to learn about the Mafia (Sicilian Mafiosi).

A crime family known as Sicilian Provenzano in New Orleans and New York’s Morello crime family were allegedly the first to use the barrel murder method.

New Orleans’ police chief, David C. Hennessy, began his investigation into barrel murders and was assassinated in 1890. His murder was blamed on the Sicilian Mafiosi. People were so angered and outraged by his death that it ensued one of the largest mass lynchings in U.S. history. Because Hennessy had said an Italian was responsible for shooting him, the people of New Orleans went mad, and even if you were innocent as an Italian-American, you could risk being shot or hung. The mass lynching mob wasn’t prosecuted because the grand jury said the killers couldn’t be identified, although even the prominent of the city participated.''

''Back in New York, the Morellos used the barrel method for decades. Because the Morellos used the barrel method, other criminals would use it only to deflect attention on themselves and onto the Morellos''

 

[rainwaterstill]

Interesting the authorities thought more remains would be found.

Lake Mead has long had a reputation for body dumps, especially so in the decades when the mob was running Vegas.

 

[hafom8840]

Lake Mead has long had a reputation for body dumps, especially so in the decades when the mob was running Vegas.

There's probably more corpses at Lake Mead than Mount Everest

 

[Warwick1991]

Phil Ochs wrote a song about that:
Here's to the State of Mississippi,
For underneath her borders
The devil draws no line.
If you drag her muddy rivers,
Nameless bodies you will find.
Oh, the fat trees of the forest
Have hid a thousand crimes.
The calendar is lyin'
When it reads the present time.
Oh-o-o, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of.
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of.

As I recall, the reason that they found her body was that the hotel guests reported that the water had an unpleasant taste.

In Germany back in the 80s and 90s, groundwater was often the source of drinking water, and there was a problem in that the water was routinely contaminated by the decaying corpses in graveyards—so people were literally drinking dead bodies. I don't know whether that situation has been corrected, but if I travel to Germany again, I'll be buying Perrier imported from France.

OT, but graveyards can contaminate water if the bodies were embalmed with toxic material. In the US Civil War, the practice of embalming bodies of fallen soldiers with arsenic-based compounds became common. There are many cemeteries with burials from the 1800s and beyond that have arsenic-contaminated soil. In some cases, these cemeteries can contaminate groundwater.

 

[orchidaceaes]

A second body was found.

None of the news articles that I've read so far have said how this body was found, but it seems like it was in plain sight so to speak. Was it not also in a barrel?
Not surprised at all that there would be multiple people found. Bodies of water, excuse the pun, seem to be pretty popular dump locations.

 

[CdnCat]

None of the news articles that I've read so far have said how this body was found, but it seems like it was in plain sight so to speak. Was it not also in a barrel?
Not surprised at all that there would be multiple people found. Bodies of water, excuse the pun, seem to be pretty popular dump locations.

Body dumps and possible drownings too. I imagine there are plenty more.

Living on a Great Lake, we know there are hundreds of bodies in there. That is not even counting animal drownings etc. That's why we have treatment plants.