A 22-year long drought is renewing interest in the mob's connections to Las Vegas. Two bodies have resurfaced at Lake Mead, about 40 miles from the Las Vegas Strip.
Several bodies were found after the water levels began to drop. So what else lies beneath the lake?There's a murder mystery at Lake Mead. The decades-long drought at America's biggest reservoir has dropped water levels so low that bodies are popping up.
Lake Mead is behind the Hoover Dam and about 40 miles from the Las Vegas strip. As the lake dries up, it could help crack some very cold cases. "So, we're making our plans and everything, and we're like, well, we saw one body found in a barrel, so maybe we're going to hike and find a second body in a barrel. We figure like Jimmy Hoffa's underneath a stadium somewhere," said Dain Ebright.Human remains resurfacing at Lake Mead, along with interest in Jimmy Hoffa’s 1975 disappearance
Ebright traveled to Las Vegas for his brother's bachelor party and arrived just days after a second body was discovered at Lake Mead."If you're talking about that era in Las Vegas, the chances are that, you know, that this could have been a mob hit… It was a time with a great deal of pressure on the mob. And in order to survive, there was violence," said Geoff Schumacher, Mob Museum VP of exhibits and programs.