Check the still image at 1:09. I was thinking the same thing until that, you can totally see it's a human torso, look at the butt, it's just very decomposed.
Most all of the large lakes in the world contain bodies, not just murder victims but drowning victims whose bodies where never found. And think of all the dead things, like fish and turtles and birds, that die naturally there. It takes a great deal of processing to make water safe to drink.
That’s a good analogy but considering construction companies don’t even build basements on homes because it’s so hard to dig. I doubt that your average Joe with a shovel from Home Depot is digging a whole deep enough for a body
They found bodies every other week for years when developing the surrounding outlying areas of the valley. I was born and raised there in the 80s and remember it well.
@Johnny Rep "I'll always remember the good times I've had at Swim Beach" are words that have never been uttered by anyone; other than a murderer😏. It kinda makes me think of "Shell Beach" from the movie Dark City. So indescript & generic yet eerily menacing lol
I know someone who drowned at Lake Mead in 1978, he was never found. It would be nice to find him for the family, so I have to wonder if it is him. Whom ever it is, may they rest in peace.
Took awhile to realize what I was looking at..... Thats a carcass from the top of their thighs to up above their belly button. What you're looking at is a hardened shell of skin. Just inside you can see the remains of their pelvic bone and possibly some of the spine. I'd guess that some ribs are still in-tact. This was a male carcass by the looks of the groin area and the side of the pelvis that's visible. Judging by the thickness of what's seen; It was possibly a larger person. And I wouldn't suggest that the legs or torso were "cut off". The torso in this footage is missing most of it's upper ribs, lost to what ever has been consuming it in the water. Though I wouldn't doubt they were murdered. Just not chopped up like some are suggesting.
I agree with your statement. I have seen plenty of dead bodies. Mainly missing persons like this one. There are a few different ways that a body can look after being in the water for extended periods of time, but also what the body looks like depends on how they were killed, ph of the water, other chemicals, and animals that could be consuming the body.
except the water didn't evaporate lol they found what has been draining the lake for years. they have been pulling water out of it for Lake Las Vegas. 1.4 Billion gallons a year. their pipe is at 1050 feet and out of no where the lake stopped draining daily at 1040.
@@Z-e-r-0 I love how you pass information along without giving "they" any credit. If you're going to parrot points from someone else's findings you should at least credit their work. Also, Lake Las Vegas contributes to the lowering lake levels but is absolutely not the only cause.
@@Z-e-r-0 To give you perspective about how wrong you are, 1.4 billion gallons of water is about 4300 acre feet while lake Mead loses over 600,000 acre feet of water a year to evaporation according to nps.gov.
It's because death is so sterilized in American society -- which is ironic since the United States likes to fight unending wars leaving mass causalities in its wake. You'd figure the average obese US Consumer would be used to seeing a dead body by now.
As shocking as it seems, any long standing body of water, or river etc probably has alot more human remains than anyone wants to imagine. Watch Adventures with Purpose on RU-vid and they pull out cars with bodies in them lost for years almost weekly from waters around the US. It is the sad fact of life that no matter how often you see it, your still amazed when you do.
Nice to read. I gave myself a moment of pause and thought about the person instead of the usual leave comment, read comments and go.. i think its important to take a moment. I believe you did so as well with your comment.
@@maximumpayne575 shouldn’t live in the desert and this wouldn’t have happened, everyone knew Las Vegas wasn’t sustainable it’s just getting worse quicker than we thought.
30 miles from Las Vegas, this has always been the perfect dumping site for the mafia. I don't doubt, that as the water level continues to drop, more and more remains will be exposed.
There is bound to be more , as someone else mentioned , if they would have dug up around Vegas pre-1985 they’d find a whole lot more , my brother and I did behind a gas station riding our bikes across what was then open desert , found the guys dental partial then looked around and found what was left of him in 1977, apparently he had been there a while , shallow grave , coyotes dug him up and scattered his remains all over the place … pretty gross for two young boys to discover at 12 and 9
New Hobie : lets take a cadaver dog and a metal detection equipment and see how many cases we can close in 3 weeks ? Its a idea.. and we have no one in government stopping us now....
Correct. Crime syndicates used to do the whole barrel + body + cement things. Lake Mead was a FANTASTIC way to get rid of bodies. Granted, there are *SO* many better ways to make people disappear. Highly corrosive acids being one of them (and yes, you'd need to be fairly wealthy and well-connected). But only the rich can play the high-octane games. Penny stock petty crim-crimz just shoot people and pull lazy, sloppy moves, lol. Doesn't always matter, though. Feed 'em to the crocs. They'll eat ANYthing. ;)
@@sew_gal7340 curious people. Since 3 were found then probably more out there in the water. Aren't you ever curious? Or do you think we're in a perfect world?
So was this a torso? I cant seem to figure out what that is...what I am looking at in this picture. Video. Footage. I think more people should see "partial" remains, so then more people can identify what they find, and then report what they find to authorities. Death is a part of life. Lets hope this person was not harmed in life or death. May they Rest In Peace finally!✌🏼
Look up the "soap lady" of lake crescent. There is a podcast( the ouija broads ) that do a really good job telling the story. It seems like that may be a degree of what has happened to these remains
@@larsonfamilyhouse really really bad news about that oceans.... Cue up that old song Surf Punks -" The Beach Is Nothing But The Birds' Bathroom & The Ocean is the Fishes' Toilette" good early 1980's surf punk music.
Why has nobody cut open the metal barrels fill up with concrete? They found a barrel already with a body in it. Maybe those other barrels the killer changed it up, by adding concrete to keep it down on the water. I think a metal barrel with a body and air is harder to sink than a barrel with a body and concrete. Isn't it weird they are all near each other when that lake is huge... God bless the ones who died.
They are probably in the same areas because it was easier to get to those areas, it’s not weird at all, just easier to dump bodies in certain areas than others. Back then when they were dumped the lake was so deep that finding a body or barrel with a body in it was impossible.
@@jmb1666 thank you! I was generally interested. I couldn't see it AT ALL. Now I can see it like shrunken and mummified, small looking but with skin...you can see the abs 😬 frightening. And small. Definitely smaller than you think 🤔
We have been drinking dead bodies all these years. Thank you government officials and police authorities for providing better tasting water. My hats off to you.
Oh and BTW a molecule of water cannot be created or destroyed. The Earth recycles it's water over and over. When you drink even the cleanest water in the world it has passed through other animals many times over the millennia . It may have been diarrhea, puke, puss, snot, or even part of another animal. Think about that the next time you have a drink. 😁😁
Thank you 8 News Now Las Vegas for showing the body and treating your viewers like adults. We are so tired of censorship out here! It's nice to know at least one news outlet in the country is reporting the news as it is without hiding anything. You gave the warning at the beginning and those who didn't want to see it didn't have to. Bravo!
@@KayInMaine They're not going to recognize it, no, but there's every chance that they wouldn't have any way to know their loved one ended up in the lake. Just because they aren't in a barrel doesn't mean they drowned.
Yeah so there's like 3 or 4 other barrels that are filled with cement, I think they should check those too after this latest body. Looks like that part of the body was preserved in cement hence the perfect torso shape.
thanks for helping me be less confused, I saw that video and thought that does not look like any human bone structure I've ever seen. Makes sense incased in cement.
But that's not how it would look, though. If a body was placed into a barrel and cement poured in you would see the shape of the barrel, not the shape of the body. The body would be inside it. The barrel would rust and corrode away leaving the shape of a cement barrel, the body would decompose from within that cement (via the areas where flesh or bone made contact with the inside of the barrel) to leave a hollow shape inside it, it couldn't create a human form made out of cement. In order to create a concrete form made out of cement you would have to have the void shape already, pour cement into that, and then remove the outer cast.
I worked at Lake Mead for 25 years. The concrete barrels are anchors for the dock systems at the marinas. They had a cable attached to them which ran to winches on the dock fingers. This would keep the dock systems from blowing up on the beach and to maneuver the docks as water levels changed
The possibilities are real that it's Jimny Hoffa, but then again there's only about a million lakes he could have ended up in, plus an ocean so vast that it will never dry up. Plus all the buildings and jetties where he could have become part of the structure, or my theory: he was probably dissolved in an autoclave. It leaves no trace. But then again maybe.........
I’m sure our local lake has untold bodies since it was formed in 1960. It just never receded enough. There was a car with two bodies found in it from the 1960’s a few years ago.
They are not going to close the lake. It has been common knowledge for many years that there are human remains scattered all over the lake. If you find someone report the location so they can collect the body and attempt to return it to the family, along with the bill.
Does anyone know if that now that Lake Mead is so low, that the government will clean up all the sunken boats, barrels, and other trash that is now on dry land, before the lake fills up again?
@@Novastar.SaberCombat lake Mead actually has a differential in depth according to season. What did you think a man-made lake in the middle of a desert would do? It does fill up during the intermittent violent downpours in dry regions such as this.
After all the crap they gave the guy who's houseboat beached telling him they were going to tear it apart and haul it off. They better tear the others apart and haul them off!
Now would be a very good time for that area to be cleaned up and dredged while the water is low.... this is the best time to clean it all up and see and bring up anything still under water. Take advantage of this... make something good come out of this somewhat unlucky situation.
Look up the soap lady of lake crescent. A podcast (the ouija broads) tells the story really well and explains the science behind cold water preservation
@@amberbonales2254 , No, not necessarily. I was making comments in the comments section because that’s what it’s for. Sadly there’s a lot of people unaware of what’s going on. Especially when it doesn’t affect them. Why you’d come at my comments like that is kinda weird. But whatever… 😑
Ugh, this looks like a case of adipocere. That explains why the remains didn’t fully dissolve into the water, and how there are no bones around (which also seems to indicate the body has been there for quite a long time, by the way).
@@stratagemsgemart I’m not in forensics but *into* forensics and, as the academic I am - Design PhD student, nothing to do with crimes other than those of the typographic kind 😅 -, I have exceptionally good memory for… well, everything. 🤷♂️ And a very morbid curiosity, at that; IIRC, I first read about adipocere on Wikipedia, and got there through the Soap Lady (also don’t google that if you don’t want to have nightmares 🙃).
@Aubrey exactly. The fat turned into wax, plain and simple. If it wasn’t for the anaerobic environment (something rather easy to come by in a reservoir, with all that mud and silt), all the tissues would decompose and only bones would remain (and drift away). If you look closely, the body parts missing (head, limbs and genitalia) are precisely those which have the least body fat. And the pelvic bone stayed put, as it’s a rather large bone that won’t easily fit through the openings. It’s very unlikely this person was chopped up, as many were saying here, and though that isn’t much solace to them and their next-of-kin and won’t bring them back, let’s hope it was just a freak accident. Now, here’s the thing: I’ve been watching all the updates on status of the reservoir, and those mud and silt banks seem to be very common. Something tells me that yet more bodies just like this one will be found, and the more the reservoir dries up and empties, the quicker they’ll appear. Quite the creepy thought, but such is the nature of these bodies of water.
@Aubrey yep. The bog men is a different phenomenon due to somewhat similar circumstances, the difference being that peat bogs are not as moist/wet as, well, a full-blown body of water. The absence of oxygen *and* water will straight up mummify all kinds of living organisms.
yea because surely we drinking straight from the lake..... u do know that it goes to treatment plants before it will be used to drink right? what planet are you living on that you dont know that...
@@jay_wright How many decomposing bodies in your water-source will you ignore before you find the water objectionable? 5, 10, 20? Will you drink water from your sewage treatment plant? The astronauts do. Yummy!
@@jameswest4819 are you really that ignorant? What water are you gonna drink when there's no water bottles and wells run dry? You just gonna boil all the problems away?
That’s funny - “try not to swallow the water” - and yet the lake with Lord knows how many bodies that have been decomposing in it for how long supplies the drinking water to Las Vegas.
Is the body coated in concrete? I ask because skin usually doesn't do that in water. It's tasty to marine life and fragile to boot. Interest is via my degree in forensic bio.
@@Missvoodoomama Oh of course. Adipose tissue. It does do some weird thing in decay. I just thought it being LV and...mafia and concrete being good friends : ).
When will they start reporting how many are expected to die when water runs out? How much will property values drop? How about how many days of water are in reserves
From the videos I have seen from people going to Lake Mead and finding metal drums, maybe the authorities need to go out there and gather up those drums.
Surprised divers are not out there looking for the rest of the remains. Obviously must be more right there...looks like its incased in plaster or something.
It's tough because it's getting extremely difficult to launch boats at all there, the conditions on the surface are extremely hot being in the middle of the desert, and nobody would be paying them for their efforts at this point. There are some out looking, but it's the diehards who are doing this from their own pockets and putting up with the rough conditions.
In cool water fat in a body turns to a soap like material called adipocere. If you look, that’s not plaster, it’s the outer layers of fat turned into the white soap material. Between the leg stumps is either the stump of a penis, or a vagina. This wad an older fat person. Look at the broken leg stumps, you can see the cross section of fatty tissue, and the hollows was where the muscle was.
Have you ever drained a fish tank? Have you noticed that the bottom few inches get really concentrated and super nasty?? That's what they're swimming in...
This is real life. Thank you for being transparent. If you want leads from the public, you have to show us the graphics no matter how disturbing they may be much respect to the victim's family. We want to help. But how can we if we cannot see the images?
I’ve watched footage of this several times now and I still don’t see that it was actually human. To me it looks like part of a mannequin or statue, plastic or plaster or some other material, it doesn’t look like real human remains to me.
@@Skxtra. "Adipocere, "grave wax," is a waxy or greasy decomposition product formed by hydrolysis and hydrogenation of tissue fats. Once formed, it appears stable for extended periods. Adipocere has generally been considered to result from bacterial action, commonly in warm, damp, anaerobic environments."
