The bones discovered in a canister at Lake Mead [lac artificiel de l’ouest des États-Unis, non loin de Las Vegas] earlier this month horrified and captivated two distinct groups of people who usually have nothing in common: underworld historians and climatologists.
Less than a week following the unidentified body was found in a canister, paddleboarders discovered more bones at Lake Mead Recreation Area, Nevada [le lac Mead est situé à cheval sur les États du Nevada et de l’Arizona]. The public authorities are not surprised to see these bodies reappear, at a time when the lake is shrinking under the effect of the prolonged drought which is affecting the entire west of the country.
If the container discovered on 1is May at Lake Mead announces a climatic cataclysm on the horizon, it also tells a part of the history of Las Vegas. Investigators believe that the victim was executed and placed in the canister forty or forty-five years ago, according to the shoes that were found there. Las Vegas Police Lt. Ray Spencer reminded the Los Angeles Times at the beginning of the month that, forty years ago, the current bank was under 30 meters of water.
The person inside the can was allegedly executed around the time the underworld disbanded in ‘Sin City’ [la “ville du péché”, surnom de Las Vegas].
“The late 1970s and early 1980s was kind of the beginning of the end for the underworld in Vegas,” confirms Geoff Schumacher, deputy director of the museum of the Underworld, in Las Vegas.
Geoff Schumacher recalls a few cases involving bogus, including the execution of Johnny Roselli, who testified before Congress in 1976. Roselli had gone missing shortly following
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