Las Vegas's Mob Era Rediscovered With Bodies Washing Up From Near Lake

May 14, 2022

“There’s no telling what we’ll find in Lake Mead,” former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman stated Monday. “It’s not a bad place to dump a body.”

Goodman, as a lawyer, represented mob figures including the ill-fated Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilotro before serving three terms as a martini-toting mayor making public impressions with a showgirl on each arm.

He denied naming names about who might turn up in the vast reservoir created by Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona.

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“I’m relatively sure it was not Jimmy Hoffa,” he chuckled. Additionally, he said that a lot of his former clients appeared interested in “climate control” — mob speaks for keeping the lake level up and bodies down in their watery graves.

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The lake that slakes the thirst of 40 million people in cities, farms, and tribes across seven Southwestern states is down to about 30% of capacity.

“If the lake goes down much farther, we may be going to have some very interesting things surface,” observed Michael Green, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas history professor whose father dealt blackjack for decades at casinos including the Stardust and the Showboat.

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“I wouldn’t bet the mortgage that we’re going to solve who killed Bugsy Siegel,” Green stated, mentioning the infamous gangster who opened the Flamingo in 1944 on what would become the Strip. Siegel was shot dead in 1947 in Beverly Hills, California. His killer has never been identified.

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“But I would be willing to bet there are going to be a few more bodies,” Green declared.

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First, the dropping lake level revealed Las Vegas’ uppermost drinking water intake on April 25, forcing the regional water authority to change to a deep-lake intake it completed in 2020 to resume supplying casinos, suburbs, and 2.4 million residents and 40 million tourists per year.

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The following weekend, boaters spotted the decayed body of a man in a rusted barrel stuck in the mud of a newly disclosed shoreline.

The corpse has not been determined, but Las Vegas police say he had been shot, probably between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s, according to the shoes found with him. The death is being examined as a homicide.

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A few days later, a second barrel was found by a KLAS-TV news crew, not far from the first. It was empty.

On Saturday, two sisters from suburban Henderson who were paddleboarding on the lake near a former marina resort saw bones on a newly surfaced sand bar.

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Lindsey Melvin, who captured photos of their find, expressed they thought at first it was the skeleton of a bighorn sheep native to the region. A closer look indicated a human jaw with teeth. They called park rangers, and the National Park Service confirmed in a statement that the bones were human.

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There was no immediate evidence of foul play, Las Vegas police said Monday, and they are not investigating. A homicide probe would be opened if the Clark County coroner determines the death was suspicious, the department said in a statement.