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? Watery graves recall early Las Vegas’ organized crime days
Stories about long-departed Las Vegas organized crime figures are surfacing after a second set of unidentified human remains were revealed as the water level falls on drought-stricken Lake Mead.
Boaters spotted the decomposed body of a man in a rusted barrel stuck in the mud of newly exposed shoreline. Las Vegas police say he had been shot, probably between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. A few days later, two sisters were paddle boarding on the lake near a former marina resort and noticed bones on a newly surfaced sand bar more than 9 miles from the barrel.
The lake that slakes the thirst of 40 million people in cities, farms and tribes across seven Southwestern states is down to about 30% of capacity.
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