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Due to low water levels, another set of human skeletal remains was found at Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona border.
This discovery brings the total to four sets of human remains. The remains were discovered at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office was brought in to determine the cause of death.
The first body was found with a gunshot wound and was stuck in a metal barrel.
It was discovered by boaters near Lake Hemenway Harbor. “We were docking our boat to go home and heard a woman scream,” said Shawna Hollister.”
“My husband walked over and found the body. His shirt and belt were the only things we could see over his decomposing bones, she added.”
The body, named the Hemenway Harbor Doe, had been shot in the head and was found with a metal overcoat in the shape of a barrel.
Homicide of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police promptly began an investigation.
“Anytime you have a body in a barrel — clearly there was somebody else involved,” said Lieutenant Jason Johannson.
Based on the victim’s clothing, the detectives estimated that the victim might have been murdered between the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.
Another set of remains was found at Callville Bay.
Todd Kolod thinks it may be his father who was in Callville Bay in 1958.
His father was involved in a boating accident that ended with both boaters falling overboard, and only one person survived.
The Clark County Coroner said the cause of death was inclusive at the time, but the victim’s could age could have been between 23 and 38 years old.
The third set of remains was discovered at Swim Beach in Boulder City.
There were partial remains, and the cause of death has not been determined.
“I think anybody can understand there are probably more bodies that have been dumped in Lake Mead, Spencer said. “It’s just a matter of, are we able to recover those?”
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The Daily Wire reported the boat, known as a Higgins landing craft, had sunk 185 feet below the lake’s surface before sticking out nearly halfway out of the water.
American forces used similar boats during the invasion of Normandy during World War II, and Higgins, a New Orleans-based company, manufactured the crafts from about 1942-1945.
NASA, which recently released satellite images of the drought’s impact on Lake Mead, reports the lake holds the record for the largest reservoir in the U.S. The reservoir supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico.
Lake Mead hit its peak in the 1980s, with levels reaching 1,225 feet above sea level. However, NASA satellite imagery shows a dramatic decrease in water levels as areas of the lakeshore has mineralized over the past 22 years.
The reservoir had hit its lowest drop since April 1937 while the lake was still filling for the first time during the construction of the Hoover Dam.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reports the level plunged to 1,041.30 feet prompting officials to refill to just 27 percent of capacity as of July 18.
