The human remains of a third corpse have been discovered rising to the surface of a dry lake in Nevada.
Lake Mead has not finished revealing its macabre secrets. This dry place in Nevada, located not far from Las Vegas, has just seen the remains of a human corpse come to its surface. The third since last May. The National Park Service was alerted on Monday afternoon, a news release said. On the spot, the rangers blocked the place in order to recover all the remains of this person whose causes of death remain to be determined.
This sordid discovery comes as in early May, a skeleton dating back to the 1980s was found in a metal drum on the dry bank. The level of Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States, has fallen considerably under the effect of chronic drought. A second body was later discovered.
“The underworld had a tendency to put people in canisters, whether to dunk them in the lake or throw them in a field,” Geoff Schumacher, vice-president of the Mob Museum, literally the “Museum of the underworld” , from Las Vegas. “That’s the first thing. Second, the person was shot in the head, typical of the style of banditry. And third, we know it happened in the late 1970s or early 1980s when the underworld was very prominent in Las Vegas.” “This is coming across as a very difficult case,” Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer told the 8newsnow.com news site. “I would say that there is a very high chance that we will discover new human remains as the water level goes down,” he warned in May.