Las Vegas police said a body found in a barrel at Lake Mead over the weekend may date back to the 1980s. Authorities said more remains could be discovered as the water level in Lake Mead continues to drop. DETAILS: bit.ly/3vEDPFR
yep...not unlike the attorney asking the expert witness..Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?" o Witness: "No." o Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?" o Witness: "No." o Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?" o Witness: "No." o Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?" o Witness: "No." o Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?" o Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar." o Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?" o Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere." ________
Lots of lakes are lower than normal. Not lots of them have dead bodies in it. It's like the republicans are pissed about the scotus leak, and the democrats are pissed about the subject matter of the leak. Nobody wants to agree on what the real problem is anymore, which is why you'll never solve them. America is boned.
"Never seen it before" says the Las Vegas police department. I guess the 'body of water' takes a whole new meaning. Las Vegas residents have been drinking body water for the past 40 years.
There’s the comment I was looking for! And I was in Vegas in 1988, I was 13yo visiting relatives & we stayed at the Circus Circus, if I remember correctly, on our way to a family reunion in California. Our trip started in Kansas.
Next to Las Vegas with the mob involvement in the 80s. Why is this any type of shock at all !!!!! Wish I had the only steel barrel sales company in Vegas in the 80s. I would be rich beyond my dreams.
@@greglane3978 right! It makes no sense for the person to be traumatized for finding the body in a barrel in Lake Meade. If I was there I wouldn’t have been surprised. I mean it’s outside of Vegas and the mob ran the casinos at that time. There are bodies buried out in the dessert too.
@@greglane3978 lol, now that's thinking outside the box. A lot of people would say "I wish I was working with the organized crime family" but you got it right with being the one who sells the barrels lmao
I found a human skull in a stream with friends as a kid turned out to be a native American artifact and the composition of the bog /stream it was in preserved it so long, at first we thought it was a victim or an old burial but after 2 years of tests and investigating it was estimated to be 800 to 1300 years old and this was the early 90s no telling what they can find out out nowadays with technology advancement
It's understandable that finding a dead body would ruin the lake for that guy. It's interesting that the fact that it's 100 feet lower than it should be couldn't do that first.
It was probably somebody organized, as this would take several people to load and unload the body off the boat. It wouldn't surprise me if it was mob related, but it could also be a family dispute or something else. But, whatever it was, it was almost certainly the result of multiple people sharing the same beef with the victim.
I lived in Las Vegas in the 1970s and 1980s and in fact I worked at this very TV station which was in a converted gasoline station on Boulder Highway back then. You do not have to be too smart to figure out who this person is or was, come on now. Back then, this was routine body disposition, either the bottom of the Lake or way out in the high desert.
Many years ago, the police in the city where I live found a body wrapped in a carpet in the trunk of a car that had been sunk in a quarry. Same conclusion - homicide. I thought that was pretty gutsy of them.
I wonder if the people that did this ever thought about the water level would drop like this one day. Probably not I'd think. Also wonder if they started getting nervous the more time went on and the level kept lowering.
It was probably one of the Wise Guys’ victims. I hope this will bring answers to the family. I’m sure that person’s Famiky has been wondering for years what became of them. I’m amazed that all that area wasn’t full of bodies.
"If we can get DNA from the remains"? Excuse me, are you saying we can extract DNA from the remains of animals that lived millions of years ago but extracting DNA from a human that died less than 40 years ago may be impossible. I can't be the only person that sees a huge problem with this.
Permafrost Frozen organic matter vs organic matter exposed to water...water is known to erode canyons...it can and will erode organic matter and its dna.
I'm glad the super sleuths are on the case, an autopsy revealed this was a case of murder. You know, because people put themselves in barrels and drop themselves secretively in to the lake all the time.
Someone needs to tell LVPD that the University of North Texas Health Science Center does exactly this kind of forensic service for law enforcement all over the world and is considered to be one of the leading labs for this kind of work world wide might give them another opportunity to get the ID done?
Takes a lot preparation to dig that hole before hand without being seen versus popping it in a metal drum with holes throwing it overboard.Get seen digging a hole in the desert might as well dig another hole for the witness then next thing you know you got 6-10 holes when you only needed 1.
More times than not, when someone makes an impulsive decision to dump a body in a river, lake or sea, the body inevitably begins to float or is washed up on shore, even if they try to weigh it down. Whoever dumped that body and barrel knew what they were doing and did it well. If not for some unprecedented drought, that body would have stayed hidden until it was completely dissolved in a few hundred years.
I hope with science and technology advancements in 40 years they can discover who this person was. As of now whoever did it has gotten away with murder.
@Rittenhouse Rules That's what I'm thinking. They'd probably be around 50 or 60 yrs old at the youngest right now. Chances are very very low they will have this one solved ever.
@Rittenhouse Rules Yes and if they aren't yet dead, by the time they figure out who did, they'll probably have already passed. Even a young offender of 20 would be in thier 50s by now depending upon when exactly the barrel went into the lake. It could potentially take years to identify a suspect after all this time, assuming they even figure out whom the victim is. Which could also take time, there are bodies they found on land during this time period in better condition that are just now being identified after having them for most of that time. SO, who knows, but it's likely that by the time they get the information to consider filing charges, that the murderer will already be dead. And probably most of the people that knew the victim as well.
Kids I knew found a dead woman in the creek we fish in. They thought it was a manikin. Nobody should have to die like that and kids should be able to keep their innocence. Adulthood gets no better.
I'm a Floridian by birth. My parents moved me away and I came back. God bless Ron DeSantis he believes that children should be innocent until they're old enough to be guilty. God bless gods Governor let's keep the children innocent God bless you sir and your sweet wife
One, it's Vegas, and two there were quite a few decades for bodies to accumulate. Even just a couple a year out, far enough that the murderer wouldn't expect the lake to reveal over the last 70 years could number into the low three digits. Just about any major city with a substantial lake could be in the same situation. Around here Lake Washington is large enough, that there could well be dozens of barrels just like that which will never be found. The city is well over a hundred years old and any of the barrels from the early days of metal barrels would likely be covered in silt by now. Even after the lake level dropped due to the digging of a canal, there's still substantial depth in parts of the lake.
In the 80's n 90's I swam in that lake a lot being born n raised here n that was always my fear that wat was at the bottom of that lake. I have pics of that lake so beautiful, high water, it was very blue, my parents took us there every weekend in the 80's as children it was the place to be n boulder Hwy was the main road in n out of town back then n as a teen in the 90's my friends n I drove out there almost every weekend. It's sad to know someone was left like that n sad that the water is also disappearing.
how is there anything left to need to blur out lol people would trip out if we started draining every body of water in this country... ;) just curious if the person who put it there is still alive and goin FUCK FUCK FUCK lol i can just see some 80 year old retired mobster in a nursing home seeing this on TV... hah..
"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night." -Nicky Santoro, Casino
We have a place here in Florida where they dug up a huge pond for the sand to build i95. It's got indescribable feelings of wonder what is at the bottom.
WE HAD A SERIAL MURDERER THAT KILLED GIRFRIEND AND 3 KIDS AND STUFFED THEM IN 2 BARRELS IN New Hampshire,HE LIVED IN AZ and CA at times ,and has been tied to other murders around the country and missing people.He died in prison, very nasty guy
Terry Rasmussen. His ex girlfriend Denise Beaudin is still missing after they left NH for CA. She went missing in the early 80’s. They also think Rasmussen killed the San Joaquin Jane Doe.
I was a port captain for Marina on Tampa Bay. Because we had tight security and a crane the sheriff's department used us every time they recover the body. I've assisted with many recoveries. You never forget it 20 years later you still see where the crabs have been eating someone. God bless our First Responders God bless my sheriff's department and The Thin Blue Line. I will never forget
My friend said that when he went on a recovery mission in the late 70's on the Allegheny River , a very large cop who was eating a sandwich with one hand reached in and pulled a floater out , then went back to his sandwich .
Take note that in Cali.it was illegal to be exploring dried lake beds during their severe drought, several years ago.I even thought, "What are wanting to keep hidden ? "
You might just find Jimmy Hoffa you never know but that's not the only body in that Lake in a barrel closest organized for crime-related here in Las Vegas really
Go back to missing person reports from the 1980s to see if they can find likely candidates. Lake Mead should've been searched a long time ago. You know there are many people who are either in barrels in Lake Mead or buried out in the desert in unlikely places. Glad they will look more.
I remember Vegas in the 80's. We were working hard to get rid of corrupt Unions at the Casinos. There was alot of violence coming from the corrupt Unions. It wouldn't surprise me if they find many more bodies in that lake!!
@@johnsonsandra8069 You realize that the people who represented those unions were the ones making crooked deals with pension funds. The Mafia was definitely manipulating unions, but the union reps were complacent.
That's terrible. Should come as no surprise as this is a great place to do away with remains and it's so isolated . I now wonder what else is revealed as water recedes
Here in Erie Pa some cub scouts were cleaning a creek bed and found a human skull, the newspaper had the boys point to where they found it, the boys had smiles from ear to ear. They adjusted to the trauma better than their parents.
They'll be more & more findings unfortunately yet it is very bittersweet. The finding of these remains is sad, yet they can be laid to rest or cremated because we are all equal here on earth 🌎 and when we're no longer physically here, our bodies do deserve to be respected just as much as being alive.
The old missing photo on a telephone pole somewhere in Vegas 40 yrs ago was probably a missing teen kidnapped by a creep, and the parents probably always wondered what happened to our Child.
Maybe they should get in there and looks for more. Whoever did this likely dumped a few more. I doubt if it was a one off. They will get DNA and identify this person in the barrel.
Hidden in the story is a very serious problem for those that use Lake Mead for their water supply, water depletion and climate change. A murder victim story is an interesting distraction though.
Hey dummy, can't you understand that the same people who want you to believe this climate change bullshit can also control precisely how much damn water is left in a lake??????
2:27 "Also some of the sea life that has grown on the barrel" But it was found in a lake, not the sea. Good to know we have the finest and sharpest individual working this investigation 🙄
I get where you're coming from, but that's the terminology used for crustaceans. Sea life is used for both ocean and fresh water. I don't understand why either because I agree with you that it should be used for "Sea" only.
By sea life they meant aquatic life. You’re clearly not the sharpest tool. You are probably the only person who watched this video and said sea life?? But but it’s a lake how could it be sea life in a lake???
@@patriley9501 An investigator is supposed to pay attention to detail. If he can't properly differentiate sea life from freshwater aquatic life, how confident can we be in his ability to investigate a 40 year old homicide case?
