Posted on 11/20/2025 9:11:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A 55-year-old mystery about a Canadian woman who seemingly fell off the face of the Earth was partially solved earlier this month with the announcement from Metro police that human remains found in the desert more than half a century ago had finally been identified.
Las Vegas mob duo tied to 55-year-old cold case murder | 5:50
8 News Now -- Las Vegas | 404K subscribers | 106,607 views | November 18, 2025
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--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:01 · BILL AS WELL AS THE SO-CALLED 0:04 · HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BILL. 0:06 · A 55 YEAR-OLD MYSTERY ABOUT A 0:07 · CANADIAN WOMAN WHO SEEMINGLY 0:08 · FELL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH 0:11 · WAS PARTIALLY SAW EARLIER THIS 0:13 · MONTH WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT 0:14 · FROM METRO POLICE THAT HUMAN 0:16 · REMAINS WERE FOUND IN THE 0:17 · DESERT. BUT THERE WAS A BIGGER 0:20 · SURPRISE WHEN POLICE MENTIONED 0:20 · WHO MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 0:22 · THAT WOMAN'S DEATH RATE IS NOW 0:23 · CHIEF INVESTIGATOR GEORGE KNAPP 0:25 · HERE WITH THE 2 NAMES THAT 0:25 · REACH BACK TO THE BLOODIEST 0:26 · DAYS OF THE MOB IN LAS VEGAS. 0:30 · >> EARLY IN THE MARTIN SCORSESE 0:32 · MOVIE CASINO, THERE'S A SHOT 0:35 · THAT GLIDES ACROSS THE MOJAVE 0:36 · AND THE NARRATOR JOE PAT, SHE'S 0:37 · CHARACTER CASUALLY NOTES. 0:39 · THERE ARE A LOT OF HOLES OUT 0:40 · THERE IN THE DESERT OUTSIDE LAS 0:41 · VEGAS IMPLYING THERE. ALSO A 0:43 · LOT OF BODIES BURIED OUT THERE 0:45 · BY THE MOB. 2 OF THE MOST 0:46 · PROLIFIC KILLERS OF THAT ERA 0:48 · WERE NOT MEMBERS OF THE MAFIA, 0:49 · BUT THEY HANDLE DIRTY DEEDS FOR 0:52 · THE MOB FROM ANY OTHER POWERFUL 0:53 · INTERESTS. AND NOW THEIR NAMES 0:54 · HAVE SURFACED IN CONNECTION 0:55 · WITH THE REMAINS OF A CANADIAN 0:58 · WOMAN MISSING SINCE THE LATE 0:58 · 60'S. 1:00 · >> AND FOUL PLAY WAS SUSPECTED, 1:02 · BUT ANNA WAS NEVER LOCATED AND 1:04 · THE INVESTIGATION WENT COLD. 1:05 · >> POLICE IN CALGARY WERE 1:07 · PORING THROUGH OLD MISSING 1:08 · PERSONS FILES WHEN THEY SPOTTED 1:09 · A CLIPPING ABOUT A WOMAN LAST 1:11 · SEEN AS SHE BOARDED A BUS IN 1:16 · 1966. SO WE ADJUST IT SEEMINGLY 1:18 · VANISHED. CALGARY POLICE 1:20 · DISCOVERED THAT THEIR 1:21 · PREDECESSORS HAD BEEN IN TOUCH 1:22 · LONG, THOUGH, WITH DETECTIVES 1:24 · AT LAS VEGAS METRO, SOME OF THE 1:26 · MISSING WOMANS POSSESSIONS, 1:27 · INCLUDING HER PASSPORT, WERE 1:28 · FOUND IN THE DESERT OUTSIDE 1:31 · OF HENDERSON. IN 1968 2 YEARS 1:34 · LATER AND A MILE AWAY HIKERS 1:34 · FOUND REMAINS OF A PERSON WHO 1:35 · SCALA BEEN CRUSHED. CLEARLY A 1:39 · MURDER VICTIM. POLICE DID NOT 1:41 · HAVE DNA IS A TOOL BACK THEN. 1:44 · SO THE DOTS REMAINED 1:45 · UNCONNECTED. BUT METRO HOMICIDE 1:46 · PRESERVE THE EVIDENCE WHICH 1:47 · ALLOWED THE NEW BREAKTHROUGH. 1:48 · WHAT METRO SHARED WITH CALGARY 1:51 · POLICE WAS CHILLY. THERE IS. 1:52 · >> REPORTS FROM POLICE DOWN 1:53 · THERE THAT SHE HAD POTENTIAL 1:56 · TIES THEM ALL. DO YOU GUYS HAVE 1:57 · TO WORK WITH LAS VEGAS METRO TO 1:59 · FIND OUT WHO HER KILLER WAS OR 2:00 · IS THAT STRICTLY THEY'RE 2:02 · FILING? THIS WILL BE IN IN 2:02 · COVERED IN COMMUNICATION WITH 2:05 · LAS VEGAS AND 2:06 · >> SINCE WE INITIATED THIS AND 2:06 · REACHED OUT TO THEM. IT'S BEEN 2:10 · THAT GREAT COLLABORATION. 2:11 · >> SOMEWHERE IN METRO'S COLD 2:13 · CASE FILES, DETECTIVES FOUND A 2:14 · CONNECTION BETWEEN SYLVIA JUST 2:15 · THE MISSING WOMAN AND ONE OF 2:17 · THE MOST NOTORIOUS KILLERS IN 2:20 · LAS VEGAS HISTORY. TOM HENLEY 2:22 · METRO HAD LEARNED THAT THE 2:23 · MISSING WOMAN AND POSSIBLY 2:24 · BORROWED MONEY FROM HANLEY. 2:25 · IT WAS A BAD DECISION. WHO WAS 2:27 · HE? HE'D BEEN A KEY FIGURE IN 2:29 · SEVERAL LAS VEGAS LABOR UNIONS 2:31 · AS FAR BACK AS THE 40'S. 2:33 · BUT THE HOMICIDE DETECTIVES 2:35 · HANLEY WAS A NOTORIOUS 2:37 · ASSASSIN, ONE HALF OF A MURDER 2:39 · FOR HIRE TEEN. HIS PARTNER WAS 2:40 · HIS SON, RAND B HANLEY. THEY 2:42 · REPORTEDLY CARRIED OUT CONTRACT 2:46 · KILLINGS FOR THE MOB FOR CASINO 2:47 · OWNERS AND THE UNION BOSSES. 2:48 · AND THESE PEOPLE WERE TOTAL 2:48 · FORWARD KILLERS. THEY WERE 2:51 · PROBABLY. 2:54 · >> 2 OF THE WORLD'S BACK TO 2:59 · GROUP. SURE WE'RE UP FOR HIGHER 3:00 · THAN THEY WERE FOR THE LATE 3:01 · HOMICIDE. DETECTIVE DAVE HATCH 3:03 · TOOK OVER COLD CASE FILES LATE 3:05 · IN HIS CAREER. HE OPENED UP TO 3:08 · US BACK IN 2001 FOR KAYLEE, US 3:10 · TV SPECIAL ABOUT THE HANLEY'S 3:12 · HATCH SAYS METRO FILES SHOW 3:13 · THE HAND. THESE ARE THE PRIME 3:15 · SUSPECTS IN AT LEAST 7 MURDERS 3:17 · HERE. BUT THE TRUE NUMBER MIGHT 3:19 · BE 3 TIMES THAT KENLEY WAS 3:20 · ARRESTED MULTIPLE TIMES OVER 3:21 · THE YEARS. BUT CHARGES WERE 3:22 · MOSTLY DROPPED BECAUSE KEY 3:24 · WITNESSES WERE THEMSELVES 3:25 · MURDERED. 3:26 · >> ONE WITNESS WHO HEARD THE 3:28 · HANLEY'S DISCUSS MANY OF THEIR 3:31 · PLANS WAS WINDY. HANLEY TOMS, 3:33 · COMMON LAW WIFE WENDY, WHO WAS 3:35 · 40 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HER 3:36 · HUSBAND LIVED WITH TOM IN 3:38 · GRANBY YEARS AGO. SHE ESCORTED 3:39 · US OUT TO A DESERT AREA WHERE 3:42 · ONE OF THE HANLEY VICTIMS WAS 3:43 · FOUND. THIS. THIS WAS THEIR 3:45 · FAVORITE PLACE OF DEATH BEING 3:46 · AREAS. WENDY SAYS TOM IN GRANBY 3:48 · WOULD STASH BODIES AND OLD MINE 3:50 · SHAFT, CERTAIN DESERT SPOTS 3:51 · WHERE HUMANS RARELY TREND. 3:53 · THE RECENT NEWS ABOUT THE 3:54 · CANADIAN MURDER VICTIM WOULD 3:57 · SEEM TO FIT THAT PATTERN. 3:58 · THE DEATH THAT BROUGHT AN END 3:59 · TO THEIR MURDER FOR HIRE 4:00 · ENTERPRISE WAS THAT OF CULINARY 4:01 · UNION BOSS OUT BRAMLETT. 4:03 · NEVADA'S MOST POWERFUL UNION 4:04 · OFFICIAL. 4:06 · >> BRAMLETT AND TOM HENLEY WERE 4:07 · CLOSE. TOM IN GRANBY WERE 4:08 · SUSPECTED OF FIREBOMBING 4:10 · SEVERAL LAS VEGAS RESTAURANTS 4:13 · WHICH TRIED TO GO 9 UNION AND 4:14 · LAW ENFORCEMENT SUSPECTED 4:14 · BRAMBLETT THAT HIRED THEM TO 4:17 · PLANT THE BOMBS DURING THAT 4:19 · SAME PERIOD. THE INTERNATIONAL 4:21 · CULINARY UNION WANTED TO SEIZE 4:23 · CONTROL OF THE LAS VEGAS, LOCAL 4:25 · AND ITS LUCRATIVE HEALTH AND 4:27 · WELFARE FUND. AL BRAMLETT 4:29 · RESISTED. AND WHEN THE MOB PUT 4:30 · OUT A CONTRACT ON HIM, BRAMLETT 4:32 · HIRED THE TOUGHEST GUY HE KNEW 4:33 · FOR PROTECTION. TOM HENLEY, 4:33 · THAT BACKFIRED WHEN THE 4:35 · HENLEY'S KID THAT READ WHAT 4:37 · DROVE THEM OUT TO THE DESERT 4:40 · WEST OF MOUNTAIN SPRINGS AND 4:42 · THEN TAKEN NOW OUT OF THEM AND 4:43 · GAVE HIM A COUPLE OF DRINKS, 4:46 · TOO RISKY. 4:47 · >> AND THEN SHOT HIM AND HAD A 4:49 · 2 WEEK SEARCH FOR THE KIDNAPPED 4:50 · BRAMLETT FAILED TO FIND HIM 4:51 · UNTIL A TIPSTER REVEALED WHERE 4:53 · THE BODY WAS BURIED. THAT SET 4:54 · OFF A MULTI-STATE SEARCH FOR 4:57 · THE HANLEY'S WERE EVENTUALLY 5:00 · FOUND HIDING IN ARIZONA WHEN 5:01 · TOM WAS FLOWN BACK TO LAS VEGAS 5:04 · TO STAND TRIAL. HE SAID THIS TO 5:05 · WAITING REPORTERS. OF MY 5:08 · FAMILY. 5:09 · >> AND THAT'S GIVEN ME WHERE 5:09 · SHE WAS. ONE OF THE BEST 5:12 · FRIENDS I EVER HAD. 5:14 · >> POLICE IN CALGARY HAVE 5:15 · PRAISED THE COOPERATION WITH 5:17 · METRO IN IDENTIFYING STILL BE A 5:20 · JUST DNA FROM HER. 97 YEAR-OLD 5:21 · SISTER CONFIRMED THE 5:23 · CONNECTION, BUT HOW DID THE 5:24 · ILL-FATED SISTER CROSSED PATHS 5:24 · WITH THE HAMLEYS? DO WE KNOW 5:27 · HOW THAT YOU ARE CONNECTED? 5:28 · >> NO, I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK 5:29 · TO ANY OF THAT RIGHT NOW THAT 5:30 · LAS VEGAS. QUESTIONS TO ANSWER. 5:34 · >> WE REACHED OUT TO METRO TOM 5:37 · IN GRANBY. HANLEY EVENTUALLY 5:38 · ENTERED WITNESS PROTECTION AND 5:40 · GAVE TESTIMONY TO SEVERAL GRAND 5:42 · JURIES ABOUT CONTRACT KILLINGS 5:44 · AND THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR 5:45 · ORGANIZED CRIME. BOTH DIED. 5:46 · ONE OF THE HOSPITAL, THE OTHER 5:46 · IN PRISON WHEN THE HIM THEY 5:48 · CO-WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HER TIME
[singing] Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob Ma Fia...
Hey, it was only a ten year old cold case then, he was just lazy. Oh, and an actor. 🎭
BTW, this vid popped up as a YouTube suggestion because I’d watched or listened to a couple of vids from this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/@WalkWithMeTim/videos
Then I checked out one from Jacob’s Life in Vegas for the first time in a while.
And the Walk With Me Tim channel was suggested because I’d watched or listened to a couple from Sidetrack Adventures. That lumpy guy’s vids are starting to grow on me.
And to think, I used to live on Hanley Way when I lived in Henderson.
That would do it...
Better than *under* Hanley Way...
Could happen to anyone.
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