Lake Mead: Drought Reveals Dead Bodies and Las Vegas Mafia’s Troubled Past

Posted on: 04/07/2022 – 18:14Modified on: 04/07/2022 – 18:24 02:13 A rusty metal barrel on a shore of Lake Mead, near where another barrel containing a skeleton human was found in May 2022. AFP – PATRICK T. FALLON The record drought hitting the gigantic Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, reveals a heap of waste hitherto submerged… but also corpses. A recent discovery has caught the attention of observers and specialists in banditry: the skeleton of a man who was shot in the head, put in a barrel and thrown into the lake forty years ago. A case that could well be linked to the crimes of the mafia of the time.