I-Team: Las Vegas police say murder victim found in barrel at Lake Mead was shot,

The now-beachfront area on Lake Mead where a barrel with a body in it was discovered this weekend was a half-mile out to shore when police suspect the murder victim was dumped decades ago.

Boaters discovered the body in the first barrel around 3 p.m. Sunday. The 8 News Now I-Team first reported the discovery Sunday afternoon and new details about the discovery Monday.

The person, believed to be a man, is suspected to have been murdered in the late-1970s or 1980s, investigators said.

“The victim’s clothes and shoes were sold at Kmart in the mid-to-late 1970s,” Metro police homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said Tuesday.
In the 1970s and 1980s, what is now a beach would have been several dozen feet underwater. The area is directly in front of what would have been a half-mile from the boat ramp.

As the I-Team’s George Knapp has reported, Lake Mead and its surrounding washes were popular dumping grounds for criminals.

“I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains,” Spencer said.

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