Police: Body in barrel dumped in Lake Mead decades ago

https://www.reviewjournal.com/...decades-ago-2570462/

A body found in a barrel at Lake Mead National Recreational Area Sunday may have been dumped in the lake in the 1980s, a police lieutenant said Monday.

“We are going to try to reach out to UNLV to have a scientist kind of give us an estimate regarding the corrosion of the barrel, looking at the marine life, to solidify a timeline,” Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer said Monday morning.

National Park Service rangers searched an area near Hemenway Harbor at 3 p.m. Sunday after a witness reported a barrel containing human remains, the park service said in a statement. Las Vegas police were then called to the scene.

“There was a person out at the lake and noticed a barrel that was stuck in the mud,” Spencer said.

Spencer said the case is obviously a homicide.

“We are in the process of trying to identify the victim,” Spencer said, adding the preliminary estimate is that the barrel was dumped in the lake roughly 40 years ago.

The grisly find was only made possible by Lake Mead’s rapidly declining lake levels. Spencer said it is possible the barrel was dumped in the lake from a boat.

“The water level has dropped so much over the last 30 to 40 years that, where the person was located, if a person were to drop the barrel in the water and it sinks, you are never going to find it unless the water level drops,” Spencer said. “The water level has dropped and made the barrel visible. The barrel did not move….It was not like the barrel washed up.”

Spencer said police are scouring through old missing persons reports as the Clark County coroner’s office works to identify the remains.

“We do have some items that were recovered inside the barrel,” Spencer said. “We are going to see if we can make a link in terms of identification. It is a very uphill battle in trying to get the victim identified and solve the case.”

^^^ Bet that's not the only one out there.

usually they just go in a hole, in the desert

….Out past terlingua …..still got the shovel

/drift

I'll put $10 on Jimmy Hoffa

California has more than 900 golf courses.

Texas has more than 800.

Arizona and Colorado have about 200-300/ea.

New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah have ~100/ea.

And that's anout 80% too fucking many.

Got a Little Brother that moved to N.C from Las Vegas. Said Lake Mead is about empty. He said Casino water fountains took a large percentage of the city’s water usage.

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Originally posted by Imabmwnut:
Got a Little Brother that moved to N.C from Las Vegas. Said Lake Mead is about empty. He said Casino water fountains took a large percentage of the city’s water usage.

Sorry, but that sounds like sour grapes to me. No, Lake Mead is not about empty, and it won't be anytime soon as the power generation used to be about 40% of L.A.s power (don't know what it is now, but rest assured, it's still substantial) and no the casino water fountains don't take a large percentage of the city's water usage. They recycle all their water, of course, there is a large amount of evaporation in the summer, but the metro area is around 2.3 million people--that would take a lot of fountains to take a large percentage of water.

^^^ To that I'll add that about 40% of water use here is indoors. About 99% of that water is recovered and recycled. Also, housing here is built with an outdoor drain for draining pools & such. This drain also returns it to the system. We know how to conserve water here. The lake would overflow fairly quickly were it not for California's use of electricity, JMHO.

https://www.snwa.com/water-res...er-supply/index.html

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^^^ To that I'll add that about 40% of water use here is indoors. About 99% of that water is recovered and recycled. Also, housing here is built with an outdoor drain for draining pools & such. This drain also returns it to the system. We know how to conserve water here. The lake would overflow fairly quickly were it not for California's use of electricity, JMHO.

No, the lake would not overflow, they'd just drain the excess out through the spillways or even run the generators into a dummy load.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Twist18:
How long before that B-29 is on dry land?

I remember when it was considered a deep dive.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
^^^ To that I'll add that about 40% of water use here is indoors. About 99% of that water is recovered and recycled. Also, housing here is built with an outdoor drain for draining pools & such. This drain also returns it to the system. We know how to conserve water here. The lake would overflow fairly quickly were it not for California's use of electricity, JMHO.

No, the lake would not overflow, they'd just drain the excess out through the spillways or even run the generators into a dummy load.

flashguy

Yeah, I was talking about the spillway. The spillway is at 1229 feet of elevation. This is literally the overflow. Like I said, it would overflow (the spillway) if we weren't spending the throughput generating power for California. The river hasn't stopped flowing.

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Originally posted by snwghst:
Takes almost 5 gallons of water to grow a SINGLE walnut

Keep yer cotton pickin' hands off my walnut tree. Them's shootin' words.

The body found in a barrel at Lake Mead may have been underwater for as long as four decades and more bodies are likely to appear as the lake recedes due to severe drought, Las Vegas Metro police tell the
@8NewsNow
I-Team. https://bit.ly/3KDgKaK #8NN

Guess the mob wasn't kiddin.

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I think the majority of diverted water is used to grow food.

They waste millions of gallons on watering things to make products like Almond Milk. It's pretty sad.

There's the wine industry to consider, also. Arguably a purely non-essential food item that requires hundreds of acres to produce only a few tons of usable product. My previous residence was smack dab in the middle of an area dominated by vineyards and there were several, random days each year that I was without water because the well on the property was constantly low due to the massive drain on water by the surrounding vienyards.

SECOND body is discovered in drought-hit Lake Mead reservoir a week after corpse was found in barrel exposed by lowest water levels since 1971

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...k-corpse-barrel.html

A second set of human remains have been discovered at Lake Mead reservoir over the weekend, days after a man's body was found in a barrel exposed by a drought.

More at link

we're gonna need some common sense barrel laws in NeeVaadaa

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SECOND body is discovered in drought-hit Lake Mead reservoir a week after corpse was found in barrel exposed by lowest water levels since 1971

I’ll bet you they keep finding them too

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

SECOND body is discovered in drought-hit Lake Mead reservoir a week after corpse was found in barrel exposed by lowest water levels since 1971

I’ll bet you they keep finding them too

This right here is why I use a Brita water filter.

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Originally posted by sigalert:

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

SECOND body is discovered in drought-hit Lake Mead reservoir a week after corpse was found in barrel exposed by lowest water levels since 1971

I’ll bet you they keep finding them too

This right here is why I use a Brita water filter.

Hopefully, the water in your home tap has been processed to remove germs and toxic chemicals.

flashguy