The CBS station in Las Vegas reports that, as the water level in Lake Mead has dropped, long submerged items begins to surface. The latest, a barrel containing human remains. I especially like the understatement in the following remark by an LVPD lieutenant quoted in the story.
It’s going to be a very difficult case. I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains.
Who would have guessed the water level would ever drop scores of feet? So CSI begins, making lists of guys who disappeared back in the '60s and '70s and rounding up their dental records. Maybe they can identify mob hits from the "rat pack" days when the organized crime families were major LV players.
One arm of Lake Mead is less than 60 miles from our winter place on the eastern edge of the Mojave. It's in a town colonized in the late 1800s by polygamist farmers sent here by Brigham Young.
