A fifth set of human remains has been found in 's rapidly-reducing Lake Mead, with water levels at historic lows. 
National Park Service rangers were informed of the find at the Swim Beach area at 8pm on Monday, the NPS said. 
'Park rangers have set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from Las Vegas Department's dive team,' they said in a statement. 
'The Clark County Medical Examiner has also been contacted.'
The previous two sets of remains have also been found at Swim Beach. 
Last week the coroner said those two sets of remains could be from the same person.
It is not yet known if this fifth set is also the same person as the third and fourth, and showed divers on the scene. 
Divers are seen on Tuesday searching the Swim Beach area, where the fifth set of remains was discovered
Officials are seen combing the area for the human remains on Tuesday
Divers were accompanied by police and representatives of the coroner's office

The waters of Lake Mead are currently receding at a rate of 12 inches a month
The bones and other fragments began emerging in May - first with a male body in a barrel. The person had been shot in the head, and a homicide investigation has been opened. It is believed the man was killed in the 1970s or 80s.
On May 7, a person believed to be aged between 23 and 38 was found at Callville Bay, and DNA samples were taken.
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A man living in , Todd Kolod, has said he is increasingly confident that set of remains is his father Daniel, who was killed in a speedboat accident on the lake in 1958, aged 22, and whose body was never recovered.
A third set of remains was found on July 26, at Swim Beach, and on August 6 a fourth set was unearthed at the same location.
'At this time, the investigation into these remains includes working to determine whether the two sets of remains are from the same person or not,' the coroner's office said in a statement on August 10. 
The fourth set of remains (pictured) was discovered on August 6 at Swim Beach in Lake Mead. On August 10, the coroner said it could be the same person as was discovered on July 25
This is the third set of human remains to have been discovered at Lake Mead, on July 26. No further details about the remains - including the gender of the person, and how long they were in the lake - have been disclosed. Coroners believe this could be the same person as the remains discovered on August 6
People are pictured at Swim Beach in Lake Mead on August 7 - the day after the fourth set was found. The coroner is investigating whether the August 6 remains belong to a person found on July 25
Two girls are seen at Lake Mead's Swim Beach on August 7
Swim Beach is pictured on August 7, with water levels at an 80-year low

Christopher Orozco told that he and his family were visiting the lake to go for a swim, when they found the bones sticking out of the sand under shallow water.
He said he took photos and videos of the bones before reporting them to the National Park Service.
'We went in the water, one of my daughters said she saw something in the water she thought it was a bone,' said Orozco.
'I said okay let me go see. As I got closer I picked it up I noticed it was a bone like this big.' 
The National Park Service confirmed that Orozco was the first person to report the August 6 discovery. 
According to NASA, water levels in Lake Mead are their lowest level since 1937. As of July 18, 2022, the lake was filled to 27 percent capacity

The identification of all the remains could take months, if not years. 
Some of those who perished in the lake may be untraceable, as DNA sampling is a relatively new invention. 
Police in Las Vegas are trawling their records of unsolved missing person cases, and have taken DNA from several families to see if answers can be found.
Kolod, who is eager to learn whether the second set is indeed his father, said at the weekend that he is yet to be asked for DNA, 카지노사이트 although he is keen to ass
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k.  Is this the watery grave of Mob victims? Lake Mead near Las Vegas has retreated due to drought, exposing decades of hidden secrets including several bodies believed to be Mafia hits... and officials expect 'a lot more' will be revealedThe first body was discovered in May. The skeletal remains of a man were found crammed inside a rusting metal barrel on Lake Mead's muddy shore. Police said he had been shot in the head, Mob-style, sometime in the 197
r
s.Since then, the corpses have kept coming out of America's biggest reservoir, which is giving up its decades-
se
s.Recently, a new set of human remains proved the fourt
ch
d.The waters of the 112-mile-long lake on the Nevada-Arizona border are retreating in the wake of a drought, exacerbated by heavy water use by surroun
s
s.Treasure hunters have flocked to the area, drawn by reports of what may be revealed: including several ghost towns, an ancient Native American 'lost city', a crashed World War II B-29 Superfortress bomber and the buried loot of a notorio
an
r.The lake is notable for being just 20 miles from Las Vegas at its nearest point. So perhaps unsurprisingly, while other drying reservoirs in America's parched Southwest have revealed wonders such as a fossilised mastodon skull and ancient Native American dwellings, the one closest to Sin City is throwing up more gruesom
rp
s. The waters of Lake Mead, on the Nevada-Arizona border, are retreating in the wake of a drought. In May the skeletal remains of a man were found crammed inside a rusting metal barrel
he
reIn its early years, the casino town was so tightly controlled by the Chicago Mafia — the so-called Outfit — and other clans in the Midwest that it was said every other person there claimed to be connected to the Mob. And with so much money to be made by the unscrupulous — not to mention so much potential for them to rip each other off — there were ine
bly a lot
asualties.Although Lake Mead had obvious attractions as a place to dispose of those fatalities, local Mafia experts have long argued that mobsters preferred to bury bodies in the Nevada desert, as they feared that floating corpses in the reservoir would alarm tourists and discoura
hem from v
ing Vegas.The latest discoveries, particularly the unfortunate man in the barrel, suggest that assessment may
e been wid
the mark.'This is just the tip of the iceberg,' said Travis Heggie, a former National Park Service official who has studied deaths at Lake Mead Recreation Area. 'I'm expecting all sorts of criminal things t
ow up — an
mean a lot.'Even if it isn't more bodies in barrels, he expects they will find an arsenal of guns and knives — and whatever else the mobsters used to kill each
r and needed t
mp afterwards.The 86-year-old reservoir is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and provides drinking water to California, Arizona, Nevada and parts of Mexico. It is currently filled to le
han 30 per cen
its capacity. Although Lake Mead had obvious attractions as a place to dispose of those fatalities, local Mafia experts have long argued that mobsters preferred to bury bodies in the Nevada desert (pictur
another body f
at Lake Mead)Although the lake occupies a U.S. national park (so everything found there technically belongs to the federal government), two former police officers have offered a $5,000 reward to anyon
o discovers mo
unken barrels.Some of them, it is believed, may contain the missing loot of Bugsy Siegel, who made a fortune as one of Sin City's early criminal overlords. It's rumoured he hid his takings in several barrels that were sent to the bottom of Lake Mead sho
before he was
dered in 1947.But given that stashing victims in barrels has been a popular technique among criminals since the mid-19th century, they may find a few more skeleton
fore they find
sy's treasure.After the body in the barrel was found near an area known as Swim Beach on May 1, the shoes of the victim allowed authorities to approximately date the death. A week later, two sisters out paddleboarding found the half-buried remain
someone aged
een 23 and 37.They initially thought it was sheep bones. 'It wasn't until I saw the jawbone with a silver filling that I was like, 'Whoa, this is human!' and started t
eak out,' said
of the girls.The local coroner said these second remains were more skeletal than the first, which still bore organ tissue.
cause of deat
mains unknown.On July 25, back at Swim Beach, a third set of remains were discovered, encased in mud at the waterline. A fourth set wer
und on Swim Be
two weeks ago.Experts say it is too early to work out an identity and cause of death of the latter finds, but staff at Las Vegas's 'Mob Museum' have a shrewd idea who ended up in the barrel. They believe he is Johnny Pappas, who worked in the casino industry but had 'connections' to the Mafia. He worked for the Argent Corporation, a front company for mobsters who owned four big Las Vegas casinos from which they 'skimmed' the profits (under-reporting takings to the gove
nt and pocketi
he remainder).Pappas, a Greek-American, kept a boat on Lake Mead and disappeared one night in 1976, after telling his wife he was going to a restaurant to meet two men who were interested in buying the boat. Three days later, his car was discovered with the keys i
e ignition in
sino car park.The man suspected of killing him was Tony Spilotro, a Chicago 'enforcer' and Mafia captain in Las Vegas. The prolific hitman was considered a suspect in almost 20 mob-related murders a
isappearances
1975 to 1977. A body found at Swim Beach is believed to have been put there by Tony Spilotro, who inspired the character of Mafia psychopath Nicky Santoro, played by Joe Pesci in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino. Pesci is pictured above with Sh
Stone in a sc
from the movie Director Martin Scorsese based his lead character Nicky Santoro on Spilotro in his 1995 hit movie Casino. Spil
seen in a 197
g shot (above)According to the Mob Museum, his favourite execution method was a shot to the head from a
handgun fitte
th a silencer.Spilotro inspired the character of Mafia psychopath Nicky Santoro, played by Joe Pesci in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino, Hollywood's greatest
ction of Las V
's Mafia past.Given that Sin City in the 1970s has been described as 'a bloodbath' — it is calculated there were more gangland killings in Las Vegas between 1971 and 1974 than in the previous 25 years put together — there are plenty more possible candidates for the man in the barrel. One theory is that the killing was carried out by a motorcycle gang who
e trying to muscle
on the Mob's turf.Another idea is that the victim could be George Vandermark, also a Mob casino manager, who disappeared after allegedly skimming as much as $15 million in coins from the lucrative slot m
nes at the Argent
oration's casinos.Vandermark, who allegedly cheated not only the U.S. taxman but also his Mafia bosses, was last seen in an Arizona hotel in 1976. His son, who was reportedly in touch with him after he went mis
, was found murder
he following year.The authorities claimed Vandermark fled to Costa Rica, although a Mob informant insisted he had been shot dead and buried in the Ar
a desert. His body
never been found. Treasure hunters have flocked to Lake Mead (pictured), drawn by reports of what may be revealed: including several ghost towns, an ancient Native American 'lost city' and a c
ed World War II B-
uperfortress bomberAnother possibility is that the barrel victim is a cocaine trafficker named William Crespo, who 'flipped' and became a witness for the government, only to disappear in 1983 before he was due to testify against a
gent executive and
of his associates.There are even candidates the Mob Museum has never heard of — such as a mobster named Bobbi Eugene Shaw, who went missing in 1977. His sister, Barbara Brock, said police had contacted her and 핑카지노주소 her nephew in May about collecting family DNA samples to check for a match. 'I know he is gone but
efinite knowing would ma
e feel better,' she said.And although some might think burying a body in the endless wasteland around Las Vegas couldn't be simpler, historians say mobsters sometimes preferred a barrel as a more dramatic gesture. In 1976, a Vegas mobster was found dead inside a
ating barrel as far away
Biscayne Bay, in Florida.Whoever the latest barrel occupant turns out to be, it almost cert
y won't be the last gris
evelation from Lake Mead.



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