Bodies found in Lake Mead renew interest in Vegas mob lore

The corpse has not been identified but Las Vegas police say he was shot, probably between the mid-1970s and the early ’80s according to the shoes found with him

A formally sunken boat sits on cracked earth at Lake Mead (John Locher/AP)

Las Vegas is being flooded with lore about organised crime after a second set of human remains emerged from the depths of a drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir just a 30-minute drive from the notoriously mob-founded Strip.

“There’s no telling what we’ll find in Lake Mead,” former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman said on Monday.