A record drought in Las Vegas has led to the discovery of dead bodies in a dried-up reservoir believed to have been dumped there by mafia gangs.
Officers at Lake Mead, on the Nevada-Arizona border, are working to identify the “remains of a human skeleton” found over the weekend, just days after they were notified of another body that had been crammed into a barrel and thrown into the water.
Divers are now being offered rewards if they find other bodies, in the hope that cold cases can be resolved and the families of missing people closed.
The wreckage was discovered when Lake Mead’s water level dropped to 1,055 feet, the lowest since 1937, a year after Hoover Dam created the Colorado Reservoir.
At 120 miles long, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and can hold 9.3 trillion gallons (36 trillion liters) of water. It was full back in 2000, but water levels have dropped by 70 percent since then.
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