Officials at the US Bureau of Reclamation this week projected that Lake Mead will rise by 50 to 90 feet over the next few months based on an updated outlook for snowmelt upstream in Colorado partially replenishing the once-vast reservoir between Nevada and Arizona, Deseret News reports.
Which means body-hunters will have to act fast if they want to find more victims from nearby Las Vegas’s golden age of mafia violence in the 20th century. It could be a while before the skeletal remains of a hapless suspected informant – remains that could still contain gold teeth the goons neglected to remove with pliers before murdering them – are exposed in the mire again.