“Where are the bodies buried?” Climate change is showing us. “
If there’s ever been a title that grabs you, it will. Bodies? Climate change? Here’s how the two are connected.
In the American West, the second largest artificial reservoir has fallen to historically low levels due to drought. The water flowing down the Colorado River fills Lake Mead, which is now drying up.
As the water recedes, dark secrets come to the surface after two sets of human remains were recently discovered.
Two sisters rowing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area stopped to look at a nearby sand bar when they found something they thought was an animal.
“We found more and more bones,” Lindsay Melvin told a local newspaper, “and we found a jawbone and realized it was definitely human.”
Other human remains were found just six days earlier. Boaters enjoying a day at the lake made another horrific discovery – a decomposed body in a rusty metal barrel.
Called to investigate, Las Vegas Police Lt. Ray Spencer told CNN: “We think this is a gunshot wound.”
The man was shot in the back of the head, he said. While trying to identify the victim, another clue is the man’s clothing and shoes. They seem to be from the 70’s or early 1980’s and from a brand sold in K-mart.
Finding these bodies revived interest in Las Vegas and its past on the city of sin when mobsters ruled the strip.
If anyone is an expert on all of this, it’s Oscar Goodman. The former mayor of Las Vegas was also a lawyer who once defended mafia figures such as Anthony “Ant Tony” Spilotro.
A mafia executor in Chicago, Spilotro was hired in Las Vegas in the 1970s. Described as provocative and angry, actor Joe Pesci modeled his mafia character in the movie “Casino” based on “Ant Tony”.
Goodman would not speculate on who might be in the Mead Lake barrel, but said, “I’m pretty sure it’s not Jimmy Hoff,” referring to the former labor chief who disappeared in 1975.
“They keep calling me and asking, Oscar, who did it?” Goodman told the Associated Press. “And I said, how do I know who did it?” I did not order it; I’ll tell you that, “he told NBC.
It’s all about waving tongues. Two former police officers, who now host a podcast in Las Vegas, are offering a $ 5,000 reward for qualified divers to find more barrels and possibly more bodies in Lake Mead. David Colmayer told CTV News that his “Problem Solving Show” has received several pieces of public advice, including two on crowd relations. He has also heard from families of missing people, including a Utah father who went missing in the 1980s.
“We just don’t really know, there are a lot of, you know, crazy people who do crazy things, whether it’s in Las Vegas or anywhere in the world.
Colmayer hopes the mystery surrounding the bodies will be solved soon to help end these cold cases. “So I definitely want to close all kinds of cases. People need justice, don’t they? … or at least get some kind of closure. “
As water levels continue to fall during this mega drought, many suspect that what lies beneath Lake Mead will not remain hidden for long.
Colmayer says, “My gut tells me there are probably more bodies.”
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