Posted on 05/04/2022 12:45:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While working on a story on the discovery of a barrel that contained human remains at Lake Mead, a news team from KTLA sister station KLAS found a second barrel and alerted police.
Boaters discovered the body in the first barrel around 3 p.m. Sunday. While at the lake Monday, a KLAS teamnoticed a second barrel several hundred feet away from the site of the first – also onshore.
Police said Tuesday the second barrel was empty.
The person found in the first barrel, believed to be a man, is suspected to have been killed in the late-1970s or 1980s, investigators said.
The area is near a boat ramp. Crews have had to extend the ramp a half-mile over the past decades to get it closer to the water. In the 1970s and 1980s, what is now a beach would have been several dozen feet underwater.
A small hole in the second barrel revealed empty space, unlike the first barrel, which showed a person along its entirety.
Lake Mead reportedly was a popular dumping site for murderers, and police said they suspect they will find more barrels with bodies as the lake recedes.
“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 Metro police Lt. Ray Spencer said.
Lake Mead, located in both Nevada and Arizona, 24 miles east of Las Vegas, dropped below 1,056 feet in elevation last Tuesday, less than a week after hitting 1,057 feet the week before. Lake levels are expressed in altitude, not depth. At its highest levels, the lake is near 1,225 feet.
Police said they have received many tips about the person found in the barrel.
Tips can be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 702-385-5555 or at crimestoppersofnv.com/report-a-crime. Information can also be sent via text by sending “CRIMENV” and then your message to “CRIMES” (274637). Crime Stoppers offers a reward for information that leads to an arrest.
I don’t know why anyone is surprised. Nicky Santoro told us a lot of Problems get solved out in the desert. I guess he forgot to add they end up in the lake, but that’s after the fact.
And Remo got mad when they found a head in the desert and were making a big deal out of it. LOL!.....
Yes. It was Hoffa. The barrel was empty.
Wonder what it was full of initially? Oil?, Chemicals?. It couldn’t have been air because it would have floated.
“Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can?”
It seems similar to one of the Dexter seasons. Life imitates art.
Leave the gun; take the cannolis.
Dear Chief, you can probably get someone to come in with an ROV if you were really interested.
” It couldn’t have been air because it would have floated.”
If you poke holes in it, it won’t float anymore.
Classic Hawaii Five O demonstrated holes in the barrel enough.
By the way, did Dexter Morgan move to Nevada?
But why sink an empty barrel?
Somebody made a raft with barrels for flotation and when it rotted away a rusted-out barrel ended up on the bottom. Not Rocket science.
There are a number of ways a barrel could have floated on the lake until it finally sank when it filled up with water.
Did you have anything to do with this?
5.56mm
An alternative to the desert.
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Nicky Santoro:
A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in’ night.
Fredo was executed at Lake Tahoe. ;-)
How proactive of them.
It was “Prince Albert” were I grew up.
>> While working on a story on the discovery of a barrel that contained human remains at Lake Mead, a news team from KTLA sister station KLAS found a second barrel and alerted police.
>> Police said Tuesday the second barrel was empty.
Leave it to the ‘reporters’ to try and make themselves part of the news ...by reporting they found *an empty barrel*.
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