Bodies surfacing in Lake Mead recall mob’s time in Las Vegas
Las Vegas is being flooded with lore about organized crime after a second set of human remains emerged within a week from the depths of a drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir just a 30-minute drive from the notoriously mob-founded Strip. … [B]oaters spotted the decomposed body of a man in a rusted barrel stuck in the mud of newly exposed shoreline. … A few days later, a second barrel was found by a KLAS-TV news crew, not far from the first. It was empty. On Saturday, two sisters from suburban Henderson who were paddle boarding on the lake near a former marina resort noticed bones on a newly surfaced sand bar …