Las Vegas Metro cops say a body found in a rusted barrel at the newly-exposed bottom of Lake Mead on Sunday may have been there as long as four decades and will likely be far from the last one discovered as the once-vast man-made reservoir behind the Hoover Dam continues receding amid a severe drought, KLAS reports. “It’s going to take an extensive amount of work” to identify the victim, said Las Vegas Metro PD homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told KLAS, adding “I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains.”
You’d think Spencer would sound a little more excited to do research into the area’s incredible history with organized crime, back when Vegas was a real mafia town – before it sold out and went all corporate. He should be thrilled to step back in time to piece together a real gangland hit and not the same old lame botched pawn shop robberies and heroin addicts stabbing each other in some dark alley. He might even get to meet some of the legends of Sin City Vegas, or see what their skeletons look like after they’ve been under 30 feet of water and mud for 50 years.