Due to the intensification of drought, the largest reservoir in the United States immediately bottomed out, and many rotten barrels surfaced, accidentally involving the old murder case more than 40 years ago. This is the drinking water for 25 million Americans, and people are worried that more bodies will surface...
According to media reports such as " New York Post ", CNN, the western region of the United States has suffered a severe drought, causing the water level of Lake Mead , the largest reservoir in the United States, to drop sharply. As the reservoirs become increasingly exhausted, many corpses hidden at the bottom of the lake are gradually emerging, which may reveal the truth about multiple murders. Some businesses have launched the "Corpses Snorkeling " project in order to assist the police in solving more murders.
Water level has dropped by 52 meters in 39 years
Lake Mead water storage is only 30%
This year, the western United States has suffered a large-scale severe drought, causing the water level of Lake Mead, the main reservoir of Colorado River , which has dropped sharply, endangering agricultural irrigation and residents' lives.
It is reported that Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, located at the junction of Arizona and Nevada. It is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. It is about 105 kilometers long, with a maximum width of about 15 kilometers and an area of more than 600 square kilometers. It supplies water to 25 million people in seven states including Arizona, Nevada and California .
75% of the water supply in Lake Mead is used for agricultural irrigation. California, a major agricultural state in the United States, accounts for more than one-third of the vegetable production in the United States, and produces about two-thirds of the fruit and nuts in the United States. Due to drought and water shortage, a large amount of agricultural land in California is idle. Many wells in California are completely exhausted, but farmers don’t have the money to dig deeper wells. Charitable organizations donate bottled water regularly, but it is only enough for farmers' families to drink and wash, and is far from enough for agricultural irrigation.
Since 1983, the water level in Lake Mead has dropped by more than 52 meters so far, with only about 30% of the water storage capacity remaining. In some lake areas of Lake Mead, the water level is so low that it cannot be rowed, which has an impact on the tourism industry. Due to the shrinking of the lake area, some so-called "hubei restaurants" have actually basically no longer seen the lake view, and their attractiveness to tourists has dropped significantly.
According to data from the U.S. drought monitoring agency, about 91% of the western United States are in a drought state. The Colorado River Basin's New Mexico , Arizona and Colorado are all in extreme or abnormal drought.
Experts warn that if Lake Mead water level continues to drop, the Hoover Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower, and even the lower Colorado River will face a waterless situation.
Two corpses were found in one week
Police: The lower the water level, the more corpses
What is shocking is that the secret buried at the bottom of the lake for many years has been seen again. As the reservoirs become increasingly exhausted, many corpses hidden at the bottom of the lake are gradually emerging, which may reveal the truth about multiple murders.
html On May 1, people rowing in Lake Mead found a metal bucket that was exposed to the water. U.S. National Park Service personnel searched nearby and found that the metal bucket contained skeletons. Police later confirmed that the victim died of gunshot wounds. Judging by the victim's clothes, he was probably killed in the 1970s and 1980s, but his identity remains unknown.In just one week, another body was found in Lake Mead. On May 7, a pair of sisters rowing on Lake Mead found something strange on a recently surfaced sandbar. At first, they thought it was the skeleton of big horn sheep , but the more they looked, the worse it became, and they found a human chin with teeth. The National Park Service was dispatched again and then issued a statement confirming that it was a human skeleton.
reported that with the recent sharp drop in the water level of Lake Mead, many corpses have appeared from the bottom of the lake, some of whom died for more than a few decades, with obvious signs of murder. For example, a deceased had a gunshot wound on his body and was stuffed into a barrel and threw it into the bottom of the lake. The perpetrator obviously thought that the truth could be allowed to sink to the bottom of the lake forever.
Las Vegas Police Deputy Sheriff Spencer said: “As the water level continues to drop, we are likely to find more human bodies surfaced."Where did
corpses come from?
gangs murder
How did these corpses come from? Police investigations found that most of the corpses stuffed into metal buckets died around the 1970s and 1990s, and the perpetrators were very cruel. Forensics found obvious scars in these wreckage, most of them died of murder, and the victims suffered inhuman torture during their lifetime. In order to avoid the discovery of these corpses, the perpetrators put them into metal buckets and sealed them firmly with iron rings. If the rust was not corroded by water, if the water level of Lake Mead was not significantly reduced, these corpses might have never been found until Jin The day the barrel was completely rotten.
Las Vegas Police said that these homicides in the 1980s were very difficult. At that time, the DNA database had not yet been established. It was difficult to confirm the identity of the victim. They could only use genealogy to retweet the list of missing people that year to find clues. The investigation may take several years. Since there is no direct evidence of crime, the police will not investigate the homicide unless the coroner thinks the case is suspicious.
It is reported that in the 1980s, the Las Vegas Strip was once dominated by a casino run by a gangster. Police Fang said that it is absolutely impossible to rule out that the victims were actually murdered in the gang struggle.
reported that in the era of the incident, whenever a fire broke out in a gang force and caused someone to die, mafia did not need to contact the police at all. The way they handled the corpses was very simple, they were directly put into metal buckets and threw them into Lake Mead. Some of these corpses were framed, some were vendetta-killed, and some died in the fire, but most people died for the benefit. Because they were too old, it was impossible for the police to find the murderer, and there was no way to judge who these corpses were.
hid the corpses in the metal bucket
The corpse-discarding technique full of gangster characteristics
The corpse surfaced made everyone think a lot, and they couldn't help but connect the incident with the gangsters. Las Vegas, the "casino" near Lake Mead, added the stimulating color of gangster crime to these incidents.
The reservoir is more than 40 kilometers away from " Casino " Las Vegas, and there have been rumors about the gangster fighting bravely and bloody storms in the casino, including the saying that the corpse-discarding bottom of the lake after killing people.
Former mayor of Las Vegas said: "No one knows what we will find in Lake Mead, this lake is a good place to abandon corpse-discarding. This undoubtedly adds to the mystery of Las Vegas, and whatever story is behind the corpse in the barrel, it will add a legendary color to the city. During my mayorship, I was trembling whenever I attended groundbreaking ceremonies for various construction projects because I was worried that some of the people killed over the years would be discovered. ”
Goodman is a lawyer and became famous for serving as a defense lawyer for the gang leader in the casino. He smiled and said, “Many of my former clients have contributed to ‘climate control’. Those people said that if the water level on the lake does not drop, just throw the body inside. In gangster jargon, it is to keep the lake up so that the corpse can sink deeply into the tomb. ”
However, Goodman refused to reveal the possible identities of the bodies, but he smiled and said, “I’m sure it’s not Jimmy Hoffa. "
Jimmy Hoffa was a leader of the National Union and was sent to prison by former U.S. President Kennedy . On July 30, 1975, Hoffa told his family to eat at a restaurant in the suburbs of Detroit. It has disappeared since then. It is generally believed that he was killed by a gangster. Every few years, the FBI would receive clues from gang informants and then send people to dig in the backyard or remote fields, but there is still no news. Schumacher, deputy director of the gang museum in Las Vegas, expressed his opinions on the corpses of these reservoirs, saying: "I think many of them should be victims of drowning, such as those who disappeared during boating and swimming. But putting corpses into metal buckets is very gangster-like. They sometimes throw metal buckets into water."
Schumacher also mentioned a well-known case - the death of "Handsome Boy Johnny". Johnny was a gangster from Las Vegas in the 1950s. He disappeared in 1976. A few days later, his body was found hidden in a metal bucket by the beach of Miami .
A former policeman offered a reward of $5,000 to find a corpse bucket for hiding
The incident of hiding corpse in the reservoir has attracted attention from the American society. Many people want to investigate earlier what is hidden in Lake Mead What a secret. Former policeman Colmeier hosted a TV show called "Problem Solving Master Show" with a reward of $5,000, recruiting divers to find other metal barrels at the bottom of the lake, and even people from San Diego and Florida are eager to try.
Colmeier said he also received letters from families of missing persons and some cases, such as a man suspected of killing his mother and brother in 1987, and a hotel employee in 1 Missing in 992, a father of Utah disappeared in the 1980s.
However, the U.S. National Park Service blocked the bold program and said that most of the hundreds of metal barrels at the bottom of the lake can be traced back to the construction process of Hoover Dam in the 1930s, and was abandoned at the time.
Today, many businesses have taken a different approach and provided diving equipment for tourists who are eager to explore and solve cases in the lake. Search for more hiding corpses, in order to assist the police in solving more murders.
, a store specializing in "witchcraft" supplies, began selling "corpse water" in Lake Mead, introducing the history of the lake and its recent notoriety. A small can costs $7.77, which has caused controversy in American society. Although many people criticized it, "corpse water" has sold at least 75 cans on the Internet, and many customers have also come to the store to buy at least 50 cans. The owner Hanks said, "I don't want to underestimate the fact that there are corpses in the lake. These people, their families and loved ones may miss them and want to know what happened to them. ” Reporter Guo Ji of Huashang Daily compiled
