The historic drought in the western United States has unintended consequences. Especially on the banks of the Colorado River. Lake Mead is visibly drying up with global warming and it’s exposing sunken secrets.
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The evaporating waters of Lake Mead reveal a troubled past: the worst methods of the local underworld. The one that reigned over Las Vegas and its casinos in the 60s and 70s. In the middle of asphyxiated fish and a few car wrecks, human remains emerge. The water is falling so fast, 30 centimeters a week, that authorities have made their fourth macabre discovery since May. With similarities. Some of these bones were found in metal barrels, partly eaten away by rust but until then remained in the depths.
The investigations are just beginning, but the Nevada police and the managers of the Mafia Museum are formal. Putting the intruders in cans to throw them into the water or abandoning them in the middle of the desert, preferably with a bullet in the head, was part of the methods of the time. Lake Mead gradually becomes a gigantic crime scene, like a graveyard for settling scores.
As the local population likes to bet, speculations are rife. Among the names that circulate, there is the confidant of “Lefty” Rosenthal. He was the representative of the Chicago mafia in Las Vegas, played by Robert de Niro in the film Casino. There is also Jimmy Hoffa, the powerful boss of the truckers union, appearing on the list of suspects for the assassination of John Kennedy. And at the rate it’s going, Lake Mead could still reveal more corpses. In any case, this is what the local authorities are predicting.
Closer to home in Switzerland, in the canton of Valais, the retreat of the Chessjen Glacier uncovered the wreckage of a plane and two bodies inside. They had been buried for more than 50 years. The local police speak of more than 300 people missing in recent decades in the region who could be found in this way.
But obviously, no link between them as in our “crime lake” in the USA. The authors never imagined that high heat and a historic drought would one day reveal their misdeeds. Except maybe one of them. Cynical, he would have told his lawyer that he wanted to invest in the “climate control”. History to ensure that the lake remains at a sufficient level to keep the traces of his assassinations.
