Most all of the large lakes in the world contain bodies, not just murder victims but drowning victims whose bodies where never found. And think of all the dead things, like fish and turtles and birds, that die naturally there. It takes a great deal of processing to make water safe to drink.
Check the still image at 1:09. I was thinking the same thing until that, you can totally see it's a human torso, look at the butt, it's just very decomposed.
I know someone who drowned at Lake Mead in 1978, he was never found. It would be nice to find him for the family, so I have to wonder if it is him. Whom ever it is, may they rest in peace.
That’s a good analogy but considering construction companies don’t even build basements on homes because it’s so hard to dig. I doubt that your average Joe with a shovel from Home Depot is digging a whole deep enough for a body
They found bodies every other week for years when developing the surrounding outlying areas of the valley. I was born and raised there in the 80s and remember it well.
except the water didn't evaporate lol they found what has been draining the lake for years. they have been pulling water out of it for Lake Las Vegas. 1.4 Billion gallons a year. their pipe is at 1050 feet and out of no where the lake stopped draining daily at 1040.
@@Z-e-r-0 I love how you pass information along without giving "they" any credit. If you're going to parrot points from someone else's findings you should at least credit their work. Also, Lake Las Vegas contributes to the lowering lake levels but is absolutely not the only cause.
@@Z-e-r-0 To give you perspective about how wrong you are, 1.4 billion gallons of water is about 4300 acre feet while lake Mead loses over 600,000 acre feet of water a year to evaporation according to nps.gov.
As shocking as it seems, any long standing body of water, or river etc probably has alot more human remains than anyone wants to imagine. Watch Adventures with Purpose on UA-cam and they pull out cars with bodies in them lost for years almost weekly from waters around the US. It is the sad fact of life that no matter how often you see it, your still amazed when you do.
@Johnny Rep "I'll always remember the good times I've had at Swim Beach" are words that have never been uttered by anyone; other than a murderer😏. It kinda makes me think of "Shell Beach" from the movie Dark City. So indescript & generic yet eerily menacing lol
It's because death is so sterilized in American society -- which is ironic since the United States likes to fight unending wars leaving mass causalities in its wake. You'd figure the average obese US Consumer would be used to seeing a dead body by now.
There is bound to be more , as someone else mentioned , if they would have dug up around Vegas pre-1985 they’d find a whole lot more , my brother and I did behind a gas station riding our bikes across what was then open desert , found the guys dental partial then looked around and found what was left of him in 1977, apparently he had been there a while , shallow grave , coyotes dug him up and scattered his remains all over the place … pretty gross for two young boys to discover at 12 and 9
New Hobie : lets take a cadaver dog and a metal detection equipment and see how many cases we can close in 3 weeks ? Its a idea.. and we have no one in government stopping us now....
@@maximumpayne575 shouldn’t live in the desert and this wouldn’t have happened, everyone knew Las Vegas wasn’t sustainable it’s just getting worse quicker than we thought.
Nice to read. I gave myself a moment of pause and thought about the person instead of the usual leave comment, read comments and go.. i think its important to take a moment. I believe you did so as well with your comment.
30 miles from Las Vegas, this has always been the perfect dumping site for the mafia. I don't doubt, that as the water level continues to drop, more and more remains will be exposed.
Correct. Crime syndicates used to do the whole barrel + body + cement things. Lake Mead was a FANTASTIC way to get rid of bodies. Granted, there are *SO* many better ways to make people disappear. Highly corrosive acids being one of them (and yes, you'd need to be fairly wealthy and well-connected). But only the rich can play the high-octane games. Penny stock petty crim-crimz just shoot people and pull lazy, sloppy moves, lol. Doesn't always matter, though. Feed 'em to the crocs. They'll eat ANYthing. ;)
@@sew_gal7340 curious people. Since 3 were found then probably more out there in the water. Aren't you ever curious? Or do you think we're in a perfect world?
Why has nobody cut open the metal barrels fill up with concrete? They found a barrel already with a body in it. Maybe those other barrels the killer changed it up, by adding concrete to keep it down on the water. I think a metal barrel with a body and air is harder to sink than a barrel with a body and concrete. Isn't it weird they are all near each other when that lake is huge... God bless the ones who died.
They are probably in the same areas because it was easier to get to those areas, it’s not weird at all, just easier to dump bodies in certain areas than others. Back then when they were dumped the lake was so deep that finding a body or barrel with a body in it was impossible.
So was this a torso? I cant seem to figure out what that is...what I am looking at in this picture. Video. Footage. I think more people should see "partial" remains, so then more people can identify what they find, and then report what they find to authorities. Death is a part of life. Lets hope this person was not harmed in life or death. May they Rest In Peace finally!✌🏼
Look up the "soap lady" of lake crescent. There is a podcast( the ouija broads ) that do a really good job telling the story. It seems like that may be a degree of what has happened to these remains
@@larsonfamilyhouse really really bad news about that oceans.... Cue up that old song Surf Punks -" The Beach Is Nothing But The Birds' Bathroom & The Ocean is the Fishes' Toilette" good early 1980's surf punk music.
Yeah so there's like 3 or 4 other barrels that are filled with cement, I think they should check those too after this latest body. Looks like that part of the body was preserved in cement hence the perfect torso shape.
thanks for helping me be less confused, I saw that video and thought that does not look like any human bone structure I've ever seen. Makes sense incased in cement.
But that's not how it would look, though. If a body was placed into a barrel and cement poured in you would see the shape of the barrel, not the shape of the body. The body would be inside it. The barrel would rust and corrode away leaving the shape of a cement barrel, the body would decompose from within that cement (via the areas where flesh or bone made contact with the inside of the barrel) to leave a hollow shape inside it, it couldn't create a human form made out of cement. In order to create a concrete form made out of cement you would have to have the void shape already, pour cement into that, and then remove the outer cast.
I worked at Lake Mead for 25 years. The concrete barrels are anchors for the dock systems at the marinas. They had a cable attached to them which ran to winches on the dock fingers. This would keep the dock systems from blowing up on the beach and to maneuver the docks as water levels changed
The possibilities are real that it's Jimny Hoffa, but then again there's only about a million lakes he could have ended up in, plus an ocean so vast that it will never dry up. Plus all the buildings and jetties where he could have become part of the structure, or my theory: he was probably dissolved in an autoclave. It leaves no trace. But then again maybe.........
They are not going to close the lake. It has been common knowledge for many years that there are human remains scattered all over the lake. If you find someone report the location so they can collect the body and attempt to return it to the family, along with the bill.
I’m sure our local lake has untold bodies since it was formed in 1960. It just never receded enough. There was a car with two bodies found in it from the 1960’s a few years ago.
We have been drinking dead bodies all these years. Thank you government officials and police authorities for providing better tasting water. My hats off to you.
Oh and BTW a molecule of water cannot be created or destroyed. The Earth recycles it's water over and over. When you drink even the cleanest water in the world it has passed through other animals many times over the millennia . It may have been diarrhea, puke, puss, snot, or even part of another animal. Think about that the next time you have a drink. 😁😁
When will they start reporting how many are expected to die when water runs out? How much will property values drop? How about how many days of water are in reserves
@@jmb1666 thank you! I was generally interested. I couldn't see it AT ALL. Now I can see it like shrunken and mummified, small looking but with skin...you can see the abs 😬 frightening. And small. Definitely smaller than you think 🤔
Thank you 8 News Now Las Vegas for showing the body and treating your viewers like adults. We are so tired of censorship out here! It's nice to know at least one news outlet in the country is reporting the news as it is without hiding anything. You gave the warning at the beginning and those who didn't want to see it didn't have to. Bravo!
@@KayInMaine They're not going to recognize it, no, but there's every chance that they wouldn't have any way to know their loved one ended up in the lake. Just because they aren't in a barrel doesn't mean they drowned.
Does anyone know if that now that Lake Mead is so low, that the government will clean up all the sunken boats, barrels, and other trash that is now on dry land, before the lake fills up again?
@@Novastar.SaberCombat lake Mead actually has a differential in depth according to season. What did you think a man-made lake in the middle of a desert would do? It does fill up during the intermittent violent downpours in dry regions such as this.
After all the crap they gave the guy who's houseboat beached telling him they were going to tear it apart and haul it off. They better tear the others apart and haul them off!
Now would be a very good time for that area to be cleaned up and dredged while the water is low.... this is the best time to clean it all up and see and bring up anything still under water. Take advantage of this... make something good come out of this somewhat unlucky situation.
Is the body coated in concrete? I ask because skin usually doesn't do that in water. It's tasty to marine life and fragile to boot. Interest is via my degree in forensic bio.
@@Missvoodoomama Oh of course. Adipose tissue. It does do some weird thing in decay. I just thought it being LV and...mafia and concrete being good friends : ).
That person probably ate fish and now the fish eat him or her then we eat the fish that’s probably ate parts of people, sobering thought 💭 don’t eat the fish from Lake Mead.
Surprised divers are not out there looking for the rest of the remains. Obviously must be more right there...looks like its incased in plaster or something.
It's tough because it's getting extremely difficult to launch boats at all there, the conditions on the surface are extremely hot being in the middle of the desert, and nobody would be paying them for their efforts at this point. There are some out looking, but it's the diehards who are doing this from their own pockets and putting up with the rough conditions.
In cool water fat in a body turns to a soap like material called adipocere. If you look, that’s not plaster, it’s the outer layers of fat turned into the white soap material. Between the leg stumps is either the stump of a penis, or a vagina. This wad an older fat person. Look at the broken leg stumps, you can see the cross section of fatty tissue, and the hollows was where the muscle was.
Ugh, this looks like a case of adipocere. That explains why the remains didn’t fully dissolve into the water, and how there are no bones around (which also seems to indicate the body has been there for quite a long time, by the way).
@@stratagemsgemart I’m not in forensics but *into* forensics and, as the academic I am - Design PhD student, nothing to do with crimes other than those of the typographic kind 😅 -, I have exceptionally good memory for… well, everything. 🤷♂️ And a very morbid curiosity, at that; IIRC, I first read about adipocere on Wikipedia, and got there through the Soap Lady (also don’t google that if you don’t want to have nightmares 🙃).
@Aubrey exactly. The fat turned into wax, plain and simple. If it wasn’t for the anaerobic environment (something rather easy to come by in a reservoir, with all that mud and silt), all the tissues would decompose and only bones would remain (and drift away). If you look closely, the body parts missing (head, limbs and genitalia) are precisely those which have the least body fat. And the pelvic bone stayed put, as it’s a rather large bone that won’t easily fit through the openings. It’s very unlikely this person was chopped up, as many were saying here, and though that isn’t much solace to them and their next-of-kin and won’t bring them back, let’s hope it was just a freak accident. Now, here’s the thing: I’ve been watching all the updates on status of the reservoir, and those mud and silt banks seem to be very common. Something tells me that yet more bodies just like this one will be found, and the more the reservoir dries up and empties, the quicker they’ll appear. Quite the creepy thought, but such is the nature of these bodies of water.
@Aubrey yep. The bog men is a different phenomenon due to somewhat similar circumstances, the difference being that peat bogs are not as moist/wet as, well, a full-blown body of water. The absence of oxygen *and* water will straight up mummify all kinds of living organisms.
Look up the soap lady of lake crescent. A podcast (the ouija broads) tells the story really well and explains the science behind cold water preservation
That’s funny - “try not to swallow the water” - and yet the lake with Lord knows how many bodies that have been decomposing in it for how long supplies the drinking water to Las Vegas.
No disrespect but that is gross! I would never swim in water with human remains in it knowingly. RIP to all the victims. I hope they can be identified and laid to rest.
I hate to break the news to you but every drop of water you have ever swallowed, bathed or swam in has been recycled through other living and dead things time and time again over the millions of years of its existence. Just don't think about it and drink. Cheers!
I think the OP, Lynette, means she wouldn’t swim if a body was found NEARBY… also keep in mind they only found PARTIAL remains, which means there’s other parts still likely in the vicinity.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I don't know why, but some people just take things way too literally. It's like their brains don't even have the ability to do anything differently than just assume the silliest things.
yea because surely we drinking straight from the lake..... u do know that it goes to treatment plants before it will be used to drink right? what planet are you living on that you dont know that...
@@jay_wright How many decomposing bodies in your water-source will you ignore before you find the water objectionable? 5, 10, 20? Will you drink water from your sewage treatment plant? The astronauts do. Yummy!
@@jameswest4819 are you really that ignorant? What water are you gonna drink when there's no water bottles and wells run dry? You just gonna boil all the problems away?
@@amberbonales2254 , No, not necessarily. I was making comments in the comments section because that’s what it’s for. Sadly there’s a lot of people unaware of what’s going on. Especially when it doesn’t affect them. Why you’d come at my comments like that is kinda weird. But whatever… 😑
Have you ever drained a fish tank? Have you noticed that the bottom few inches get really concentrated and super nasty?? That's what they're swimming in...
This is real life. Thank you for being transparent. If you want leads from the public, you have to show us the graphics no matter how disturbing they may be much respect to the victim's family. We want to help. But how can we if we cannot see the images?
From the videos I have seen from people going to Lake Mead and finding metal drums, maybe the authorities need to go out there and gather up those drums.
Damn lol imagine swimming near that and being like: "oh what a cool rock! It's so mossy!" When you get up closer you realize its a guys body and their thighs, and bones and stuff still intact, upon further inspection the top is a torso and the bottom are legs and his penis missing.
@@DeathAngelHRA It is like you said,,, Continue to wear 5 face diapers, and maintain a distance of 666 feet, just get vaccinated EVERYDAY, obey your MASTERS
fish hollowed out the body. That is fat and skin, Water does preserve to some extent. Truly sad. Remember we will all return to dust. Probably about 10-15 years old.
I’ve watched footage of this several times now and I still don’t see that it was actually human. To me it looks like part of a mannequin or statue, plastic or plaster or some other material, it doesn’t look like real human remains to me.
@@Skxtra. "Adipocere, "grave wax," is a waxy or greasy decomposition product formed by hydrolysis and hydrogenation of tissue fats. Once formed, it appears stable for extended periods. Adipocere has generally been considered to result from bacterial action, commonly in warm, damp, anaerobic environments."
Imagine the amount of effort that it takes to # 1- kill someone (killing isn't easy like in the movies, humans are actually very tough). Then # 2, lifting and stuffing them in a 55 gallon barrel. Then # 3, ordering & pouring concrete in the barrel. # 4- hauling the 500-600 pound barrel from Vegas to Lake Meade in a car or truck. # 5- loading it on a boat by 1 or 2 men and not being seen. # 6- lifting and rolling barrel off side of fishing boat, letting it sink 200-400 feet down. # 7- remembering you dropped your watch in the wet concrete six hours earlier...
I love how the swimmers remain unfazed hearing that they’re exercising in a bathtub filled with barrels of human remains.
For real. As they gargle with some of the water lol
Most all of the large lakes in the world contain bodies, not just murder victims but drowning victims whose bodies where never found. And think of all the dead things, like fish and turtles and birds, that die naturally there. It takes a great deal of processing to make water safe to drink.
@@allthingsharbor Not to mention all those fish, turtles, and birds are pooping in that water constantly and frequentlly. ewww!
Not to mention I pee in the water also when I go to the river and public pools. So add that to things to filter out of water.
It’s gross thinking of a hollowed out torso floating in the water
I would NEVER think that was a body!
You can see the buttocks, the thigh stumps, and other view is obviously a female body with breasts and rounded tummy. It’s definitely female.
Gg
Check the still image at 1:09. I was thinking the same thing until that, you can totally see it's a human torso, look at the butt, it's just very decomposed.
@@PurpleMintSam oh. My. Goodness! Thank you . I couldn’t tell what I was seeing
Me either. And im a nurse.
I know someone who drowned at Lake Mead in 1978, he was never found. It would be nice to find him for the family, so I have to wonder if it is him. Whom ever it is, may they rest in peace.
Would be bones by now.
I'd say this one was female
What part of the lake did he drown in?
I would contact that family and have them provide dental records of their loved one to the authorities.
I think that was the body they found close to the docks
Imagine if Vegas PD started digging up the desert, the amount of bodies buried would pale in comparison to Lake Mead...
Where in the desert?
...oh wait, you mean dessert like my chocolate pudding?
AND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ALSO, OR CHIPS FROM THE CASINOS
I wouldn't be surprised if they were digging for something in general given that used to be a mining area waaayy back when from what I've seen. Hmm
That’s a good analogy but considering construction companies don’t even build basements on homes because it’s so hard to dig. I doubt that your average Joe with a shovel from Home Depot is digging a whole deep enough for a body
They found bodies every other week for years when developing the surrounding outlying areas of the valley. I was born and raised there in the 80s and remember it well.
As Lake Mead's fresh water dries up and leaves behind what can't evaporate, words like putrid and cesspool come to mind.
A putrid cesspool deadpool.
except the water didn't evaporate lol they found what has been draining the lake for years. they have been pulling water out of it for Lake Las Vegas. 1.4 Billion gallons a year. their pipe is at 1050 feet and out of no where the lake stopped draining daily at 1040.
@@Z-e-r-0 I love how you pass information along without giving "they" any credit. If you're going to parrot points from someone else's findings you should at least credit their work. Also, Lake Las Vegas contributes to the lowering lake levels but is absolutely not the only cause.
@@Z-e-r-0 To give you perspective about how wrong you are, 1.4 billion gallons of water is about 4300 acre feet while lake Mead loses over 600,000 acre feet of water a year to evaporation according to nps.gov.
@@firstorlast340 dang ur annoying
As shocking as it seems, any long standing body of water, or river etc probably has alot more human remains than anyone wants to imagine. Watch Adventures with Purpose on UA-cam and they pull out cars with bodies in them lost for years almost weekly from waters around the US. It is the sad fact of life that no matter how often you see it, your still amazed when you do.
I love Jared and AWP!!
Oh gawd. Another cheerleader
Yea AWP really opened my eyes in that regard. The work they do is incredible.
I love AWP!
I’m always thinking about how we drink the lightly purified water 🤢
Found in a barrel doesn't scream accidental drowning to me!
People shoot themselves in the head and crawl into a barrel all the time. You didn't know that?
@@goagin Only Clinton associates.
They are mob hits
@@acrossroads93 Really? I thought it was Girl Scout hazing gone wrong
@@acrossroads93 did you take a college class to come to that conclusion?
"Swim Beach" sounds like a place you die at in a horror movie.
it does 🤣🤣
Also being the most basic name for a swim spot or a beach
@Johnny Rep "I'll always remember the good times I've had at Swim Beach" are words that have never been uttered by anyone; other than a murderer😏. It kinda makes me think of "Shell Beach" from the movie Dark City. So indescript & generic yet eerily menacing lol
Why do they keep acting surprised every time they find human remains? As many unsolved missing people cases, do people think they just evaporated?
Yes, because of how many go missing every year versus found.
I totally agree
Especially just down the road from Vegas. Frankly I'm surprised they aren't finding a lot more barrels with bodies in them.
alien abduction
It's because death is so sterilized in American society -- which is ironic since the United States likes to fight unending wars leaving mass causalities in its wake. You'd figure the average obese US Consumer would be used to seeing a dead body by now.
There is bound to be more , as someone else mentioned , if they would have dug up around Vegas pre-1985 they’d find a whole lot more , my brother and I did behind a gas station riding our bikes across what was then open desert , found the guys dental partial then looked around and found what was left of him in 1977, apparently he had been there a while , shallow grave , coyotes dug him up and scattered his remains all over the place … pretty gross for two young boys to discover at 12 and 9
That's some wild shit
New Hobie : lets take a cadaver dog and a metal detection equipment and see how many cases we can close in 3 weeks ? Its a idea.. and we have no one in government stopping us now....
You probably put it there on purpose for attention.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to guess the number of dead bodies buried in Las Vegas area
I wonder why the FBI never thought to look in a lake near by Las Vegas a place owned by the mob =/
Hope it brings closure to families with missing people. Rest in peace.
While the Lake that provides millions of people with water is drying up...
@@maximumpayne575 have you heard of the Ocean, it covers over 70% of earth and it’s water
@@maximumpayne575 shouldn’t live in the desert and this wouldn’t have happened, everyone knew Las Vegas wasn’t sustainable it’s just getting worse quicker than we thought.
What if this person was a bad murderer or criminal? So you basically say give love to everyone even if they were gangsters.
@@maximumpayne575 Okay and
My dumbass probably would have been like, “well that’s a strange looking rock” and moved on with my day.
Probably not a good idea to swallow lake water even if there are no bodies floating around.
Who does that?
YOU DO KNOW THAT FISH AND BIRDS POOP IN THE LAKE ALL DAY LONG??? AND INTO LAKES IN THE WORLD
Extra protein lmao
@@domcizek 🤢🤮 good Ole swimmers itch, or if one swallows the tainted water they are gonna be eating some parasites. 🤮🤢🤢🤮🤢
Nice way to get a brain eating amoeba
This poor person, I’m glad that they were finally found.
Nice to read. I gave myself a moment of pause and thought about the person instead of the usual leave comment, read comments and go.. i think its important to take a moment. I believe you did so as well with your comment.
What a thoughtful post for the person who passed and their story. I learned something from you today , Thank you.
@@bobabooey4537 me too sue me to it’s sad and it’s hard to say what this poor person went thru
How presumptuous of you to assume they were poor.... they could have been quite wealthy even by modern standards....
Maybe the dead body was a thug who got bumped off, can’t assume they were good in life.
30 miles from Las Vegas, this has always been the perfect dumping site for the mafia. I don't doubt, that as the water level continues to drop, more and more remains will be exposed.
The vast majority of them are under the silt. Wait until the lake is gone and someone starts excavating there...
I'm sure there are more bodies dumped in the desert than in the lake.
@@getchasome6230 Exactly. Things move or get covered over. I can only imagine what's in the river channel and what's been washed further down.
I would've walked right past that. Glad that man figured it out. 😬
I'm sure the one found with cement has a body. They'll find more as the lake recedes.
Correct. Crime syndicates used to do the whole barrel + body + cement things. Lake Mead was a FANTASTIC way to get rid of bodies. Granted, there are *SO* many better ways to make people disappear. Highly corrosive acids being one of them (and yes, you'd need to be fairly wealthy and well-connected). But only the rich can play the high-octane games. Penny stock petty crim-crimz just shoot people and pull lazy, sloppy moves, lol. Doesn't always matter, though. Feed 'em to the crocs. They'll eat ANYthing. ;)
@@Novastar.SaberCombat what do you think they're serving in the fast food for the past 10 years?😒
@@Novastar.SaberCombat feed em to the pigs they also eat anything even bone
what is wrong with yalll...who spends time thinking about this
@@sew_gal7340 curious people. Since 3 were found then probably more out there in the water. Aren't you ever curious? Or do you think we're in a perfect world?
Why has nobody cut open the metal barrels fill up with concrete? They found a barrel already with a body in it. Maybe those other barrels the killer changed it up, by adding concrete to keep it down on the water. I think a metal barrel with a body and air is harder to sink than a barrel with a body and concrete. Isn't it weird they are all near each other when that lake is huge... God bless the ones who died.
They are probably in the same areas because it was easier to get to those areas, it’s not weird at all, just easier to dump bodies in certain areas than others. Back then when they were dumped the lake was so deep that finding a body or barrel with a body in it was impossible.
That’s a boat anchor lol
Someone didn’t dig their mobster holes in the desert deep enough🤣🤣🤣🤣
So was this a torso? I cant seem to figure out what that is...what I am looking at in this picture. Video. Footage.
I think more people should see "partial" remains, so then more people can identify what they find, and then report what they find to authorities.
Death is a part of life. Lets hope this person was not harmed in life or death.
May they Rest In Peace finally!✌🏼
Look up the "soap lady" of lake crescent.
There is a podcast( the ouija broads ) that do a really good job telling the story.
It seems like that may be a degree of what has happened to these remains
Male torso
I cant figure it out either. Almost looks like a bottom mandible though inside of the.. right.. leg?
Exactly! I would of thought that was remains of some type of hollow replica of one of those Italian art statues. Looks like it even has abs still 1:42
Maybe the water is slightly basic in PH (like lye) and the fat around the torso turned to soap. That's kind of what it looks like.
CAN U IMAGINE HOW MANY MISSING PPL ARE IN THIS LAKE. . . . .
NO I CANT. . .BUT IM SURE SOMEONE ELSE COULD
Which lake? This lake or the lake over here?
And Vegas drinks this water. 💀
This is gruesomely interesting. There’s going to be more!
Do you think this looks like a body cast? Perhaps the bones are in the cast. To me, it is not a skeleton.
@BW,, I believe human skin can not become a hard shell like that.
Them folks still swimming in that water is beyond me
its exactly like covid, as long as you wear a mask & keep at least 6' away from it.....you should be ok.
Vegas drinks that water.
Every lake in the united states has at least 1 dead body it’s nothing new
I have bad news about the ocean for you
@@larsonfamilyhouse really really bad news about that oceans....
Cue up that old song Surf Punks -" The Beach Is Nothing But The Birds' Bathroom & The Ocean is the Fishes' Toilette" good early 1980's surf punk music.
Yeah so there's like 3 or 4 other barrels that are filled with cement, I think they should check those too after this latest body. Looks like that part of the body was preserved in cement hence the perfect torso shape.
thanks for helping me be less confused, I saw that video and thought that does not look like any human bone structure I've ever seen. Makes sense incased in cement.
But that's not how it would look, though. If a body was placed into a barrel and cement poured in you would see the shape of the barrel, not the shape of the body. The body would be inside it. The barrel would rust and corrode away leaving the shape of a cement barrel, the body would decompose from within that cement (via the areas where flesh or bone made contact with the inside of the barrel) to leave a hollow shape inside it, it couldn't create a human form made out of cement. In order to create a concrete form made out of cement you would have to have the void shape already, pour cement into that, and then remove the outer cast.
@@ct5625 bingo. In the pnw there's a story about a "soap lady" where her remains were soapanaphied in the minerals and cold water.
I worked at Lake Mead for 25 years. The concrete barrels are anchors for the dock systems at the marinas. They had a cable attached to them which ran to winches on the dock fingers. This would keep the dock systems from blowing up on the beach and to maneuver the docks as water levels changed
@@Bigstooler0 what do you mean by blowing up? fly away or explode? Oo :)
So nice to see a person after 47 years. I was getting so tired of those catfish. -- J. Hoffa
The possibilities are real that it's Jimny Hoffa, but then again there's only about a million lakes he could have ended up in, plus an ocean so vast that it will never dry up. Plus all the buildings and jetties where he could have become part of the structure, or my theory: he was probably dissolved in an autoclave. It leaves no trace. But then again maybe.........
@@unabrazoatodoslosbuenos it’s not Hoffa. Why would anyone move a body across the country and risk an accident or spot check?
Not cool
Hoffa is in a barrel under a new Jersey bridge according to a deathbed confession of a guy who was associated with the mob. Go look it up
@@tnitron9750 Lol! Every loser and their dog killed Hoffa. You actually believe Hoffa’s killer lived long to die from old age?
That guy in the barrel sounds like the work of the mob or cartel. RIP to the victims. I pray they can be identified.
The person who murdered him will face gods judgment and Hell bound he wil go
It's a known fact that the mob used lake mead as a dumping ground
Could be a husband too, or just some serial killer.
I remember there was a funeral home near the lake in the 70's and the prices they offered were unbeatable.
Well it is near Vegas...the mob apparently built Vegas soooooo there ya go 😂😩
Apparently?
false...the mormons did
"5 minutes north of here"? By plane, train, or automobile? Useless measurement for the story. Distance would have provided more information than time.
She probably calls her boyfriend and says "Honey, I'm sorry; I'm going to be five miles late".
They are not going to close the lake. It has been common knowledge for many years that there are human remains scattered all over the lake.
If you find someone report the location so they can collect the body and attempt to return it to the family, along with the bill.
Bill?
Why don’t you report on where the water is going.
City built on blood money it don't get more gangster than this😈🌆
I’m sure our local lake has untold bodies since it was formed in 1960. It just never receded enough. There was a car with two bodies found in it from the 1960’s a few years ago.
Can you share the link?
We have been drinking dead bodies all these years. Thank you government officials and police authorities for providing better tasting water. My hats off to you.
you also drinking all the sewage from the boats
Are you high? The water is treated. You think there are no dead bodies in the great lakes or any body of water we drink from?
@@imchris5000 From boats? You should see what comes from the CITIES on the shores of many lakes we drink from.
Oh and BTW a molecule of water cannot be created or destroyed. The Earth recycles it's water over and over. When you drink even the cleanest water in the world it has passed through other animals many times over the millennia . It may have been diarrhea, puke, puss, snot, or even part of another animal. Think about that the next time you have a drink. 😁😁
@@bobwoods1302 lmao 😂
"...keep your eyes open, and try not to swallow the water."
😂
Burp! Now you tell me.😝
So for decades, people have been drinking, bathing, & washing in a lake with decomposing bodies. The 🤮🤮🤮
Dead people juice.
We are all just organic matter
..we all return to the very earth we came from
Most lakes have dead bodies inside
What do you think happens to fish and other critters?
We're drinking and bathing in toilet water in Huntington Beach, CA. Ewwa!
Why do they blur the one picture, but show this torso up close no blurr?
That’s the weirdest looking body I’ve ever seen.
How many dead bodies have you seen?
When will they start reporting how many are expected to die when water runs out?
How much will property values drop?
How about how many days of water are in reserves
Time to buy stock in bottled water?
Mobsters graveyard
Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is in there.......
@@aheimdahl5201 Nah, I think more meat packing industry
That doesn't even look like bones...I wouldn't know what that was if I found it..what part of the skeleton is that?
I’m dead, just as baffled as you are
Looks like decomposing torso. Legs cut off at thigh area. Male organ in center.
@@jmb1666 thank you! I was generally interested. I couldn't see it AT ALL. Now I can see it like shrunken and mummified, small looking but with skin...you can see the abs 😬 frightening. And small. Definitely smaller than you think 🤔
It looks like the body section was encased in cement and what we a seeing is a "cast" of a torso with decomposed remains inside.
@@HashiAkitaPuppy aaaaah. Even more indepth
"...and don't swallow the water" 😂😳
Thank you 8 News Now Las Vegas for showing the body and treating your viewers like adults. We are so tired of censorship out here! It's nice to know at least one news outlet in the country is reporting the news as it is without hiding anything. You gave the warning at the beginning and those who didn't want to see it didn't have to. Bravo!
So let’s turn the tables and that was your family member or child. Was there a need to show the body?
@@kellykelly6272 nobody watching this video would know that that was their loved one! Be real.
@@KayInMaine also, anyone whose loved one died in Lake Meade had the same advance warning to look away as everyone else.
@@KayInMaine You are sick. Glad your Karma or Judgment Day belongs to you.
@@KayInMaine They're not going to recognize it, no, but there's every chance that they wouldn't have any way to know their loved one ended up in the lake. Just because they aren't in a barrel doesn't mean they drowned.
All the mob hits from the earlier days of Vegas are starting to show up.
I'd like to see if the B-29 is visible from the surface.
Jimmy hoffa.
If no one cared about missing people, why do they care about dead bodies… #priorities
Does anyone know if that now that Lake Mead is so low, that the government will clean up all the sunken boats, barrels, and other trash that is now on dry land, before the lake fills up again?
The chances of either a clean up or Lake Mead refilling are nearly 0%.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat lake Mead actually has a differential in depth according to season. What did you think a man-made lake in the middle of a desert would do? It does fill up during the intermittent violent downpours in dry regions such as this.
That lake is not "filling" up again anytime soon.
Lake mead may never refill itself.
After all the crap they gave the guy who's houseboat beached telling him they were going to tear it apart and haul it off. They better tear the others apart and haul them off!
Las Vegas + The Mob = human remains in Lake Mead
im sure there are hundreds of bodies at the bottom of every lake and THAT is why i don't fuck with lakes lol
Where does your drinking water come from?
Now would be a very good time for that area to be cleaned up and dredged while the water is low.... this is the best time to clean it all up and see and bring up anything still under water. Take advantage of this... make something good come out of this somewhat unlucky situation.
Is the body coated in concrete? I ask because skin usually doesn't do that in water. It's tasty to marine life and fragile to boot. Interest is via my degree in forensic bio.
body fat
@@Missvoodoomama Oh of course. Adipose tissue. It does do some weird thing in decay. I just thought it being LV and...mafia and concrete being good friends : ).
@@Missvoodoomama Thank you. I'd forgotten about adipose tissue and just how useless nature finds our fats. My degree was 30 years ago : ).
So those were leg holes and a P hole I'm assuming?
@@GlowingFernSlowedAndReverb Accurate assumption.
I’ve been drinking the water for 20 years. Nothing like human tap water tea
The water gets treated before you get it, why are people so ignorant thinking we're drinking straight up lake water. smfh.
“Try not to swallow the water”??!! How about not going _in_ the water? My god I’d fill my bathtub and be satisfied with that. Lake Mead be damned!
Do you wear your mask in the bathtub?
Now would be a good time to do some dredging and increase the Lakes' water capacity
As the vale is lifted the truth shall be known.
That person probably ate fish and now the fish eat him or her then we eat the fish that’s probably ate parts of people, sobering thought 💭 don’t eat the fish from Lake Mead.
Surprised divers are not out there looking for the rest of the remains. Obviously must be more right there...looks like its incased in plaster or something.
It's tough because it's getting extremely difficult to launch boats at all there, the conditions on the surface are extremely hot being in the middle of the desert, and nobody would be paying them for their efforts at this point. There are some out looking, but it's the diehards who are doing this from their own pockets and putting up with the rough conditions.
PROBABLY CEMENT SHOES
They are just waiting for the water to go down.
In cool water fat in a body turns to a soap like material called adipocere. If you look, that’s not plaster, it’s the outer layers of fat turned into the white soap material. Between the leg stumps is either the stump of a penis, or a vagina. This wad an older fat person. Look at the broken leg stumps, you can see the cross section of fatty tissue, and the hollows was where the muscle was.
@@darrelljohnson7832 That makes sense. Reverse DND genealogy will reveal who this is in a month,,,, bet someone is worried.
A dead body, yet people still want to swim right there.... sickening.
Ugh, this looks like a case of adipocere. That explains why the remains didn’t fully dissolve into the water, and how there are no bones around (which also seems to indicate the body has been there for quite a long time, by the way).
@@stratagemsgemart I’m not in forensics but *into* forensics and, as the academic I am - Design PhD student, nothing to do with crimes other than those of the typographic kind 😅 -, I have exceptionally good memory for… well, everything. 🤷♂️ And a very morbid curiosity, at that; IIRC, I first read about adipocere on Wikipedia, and got there through the Soap Lady (also don’t google that if you don’t want to have nightmares 🙃).
@Aubrey exactly. The fat turned into wax, plain and simple. If it wasn’t for the anaerobic environment (something rather easy to come by in a reservoir, with all that mud and silt), all the tissues would decompose and only bones would remain (and drift away). If you look closely, the body parts missing (head, limbs and genitalia) are precisely those which have the least body fat. And the pelvic bone stayed put, as it’s a rather large bone that won’t easily fit through the openings.
It’s very unlikely this person was chopped up, as many were saying here, and though that isn’t much solace to them and their next-of-kin and won’t bring them back, let’s hope it was just a freak accident.
Now, here’s the thing: I’ve been watching all the updates on status of the reservoir, and those mud and silt banks seem to be very common. Something tells me that yet more bodies just like this one will be found, and the more the reservoir dries up and empties, the quicker they’ll appear. Quite the creepy thought, but such is the nature of these bodies of water.
@Aubrey yep. The bog men is a different phenomenon due to somewhat similar circumstances, the difference being that peat bogs are not as moist/wet as, well, a full-blown body of water. The absence of oxygen *and* water will straight up mummify all kinds of living organisms.
Someone is acared AF now because they thought they got away with murder all this time.
This body definitely seems more recent for it to still have flesh unless it was somehow preserved
what part of the body is that?
It's a female torso
Look up the soap lady of lake crescent. A podcast (the ouija broads) tells the story really well and explains the science behind cold water preservation
LAKE "CABIN FEVER"!!!!!!! DISGUSTING
Sometimes I think about Jimmy Hoffa, I know I know, he wasn’t in that area but maybe one day we will know where he is found.
@@ronaldrenegade8519 Jets Stadium you mean.
That was what our country needs, REAL JOURNALISM.
Looks more like a mirelurk that was killed by someone with the bloody mess perk.
That’s funny - “try not to swallow the water” - and yet the lake with Lord knows how many bodies that have been decomposing in it for how long supplies the drinking water to Las Vegas.
you do know every body of water on earth is full of dead animals and live ones body waste?
You do know all of that water is treated before being turned into drinkable water right?
There will be more.. a lot more.
Billions...
@@katiedotson704 those cement shoes the mob supposedly used will be on the bottom...ewwww!
Any question why Vegas water tastes so bad?
No disrespect but that is gross! I would never swim in water with human remains in it knowingly. RIP to all the victims. I hope they can be identified and laid to rest.
I hate to break the news to you but every drop of water you have ever swallowed, bathed or swam in has been recycled through other living and dead things time and time again over the millions of years of its existence. Just don't think about it and drink. Cheers!
Any body of water a body probably someone died in it....
Many have died in the rivers, lakes, canal, creeks, ocean, and swimming pools public n private... Soooo..
I think the OP, Lynette, means she wouldn’t swim if a body was found NEARBY… also keep in mind they only found PARTIAL remains, which means there’s other parts still likely in the vicinity.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I don't know why, but some people just take things way too literally. It's like their brains don't even have the ability to do anything differently than just assume the silliest things.
They are also restricting 500 thousand gallons per day to try and stabilize water level at hoover dam
That adds to the distinctive flavor of the water.
yea because surely we drinking straight from the lake..... u do know that it goes to treatment plants before it will be used to drink right? what planet are you living on that you dont know that...
@@jay_wright How many decomposing bodies in your water-source will you ignore before you find the water objectionable? 5, 10, 20? Will you drink water from your sewage treatment plant? The astronauts do. Yummy!
@@jameswest4819 are you really that ignorant? What water are you gonna drink when there's no water bottles and wells run dry? You just gonna boil all the problems away?
Also how much food have u ate that was fed something grown by water with dead bodies, or even drank that water?
@@jay_wright Jeffery Dahmer had a nice garden fertilized with dead bodies...Yummy.
The lake is actually receding inches every day.
This is catastrophic.
Lake mead has lost 146 feet since 2000
Are you thinking you are telling something new? It's on the news every day in California. We aren't even Nevada!
@@amberbonales2254 , No, not necessarily. I was making comments in the comments section because that’s what it’s for.
Sadly there’s a lot of people unaware of what’s going on. Especially when it doesn’t affect them.
Why you’d come at my comments like that is kinda weird. But whatever… 😑
“Try not to swallow the water.”
….
“This watery graveyard, and bio-slug isn’t gonna spoil my summer. Wooo!”
This is who we are.
Have you ever drained a fish tank? Have you noticed that the bottom few inches get really concentrated and super nasty??
That's what they're swimming in...
😂🤣
exactly what I was thinking. I ain't going in the water and no you can't make me.
@@shaggydawg5419 no one invited you anyway
This is real life. Thank you for being transparent. If you want leads from the public, you have to show us the graphics no matter how disturbing they may be much respect to the victim's family. We want to help. But how can we if we cannot see the images?
Sadly even google has taken away death photos. I love looking at gore.
From the videos I have seen from people going to Lake Mead and finding metal drums, maybe the authorities need to go out there and gather up those drums.
many of which happen to be filled w/ concrete (i wonder what's inside that concrete?)
I couldn't tell what that was.
if I saw that I wouldn't know that was a body except maybe from smell. that looks like a rock to me
It's a torso, definitely not a sculpture
Lake Mead should be considered a crime scene
I wouldn't be swimming in Lake Mead. That would give me "Goose Bumps!"
I'd imagine a boney hand grabbing my leg
Then do not go swimming in any natural body of water...
Wow thanks for the warning, that was so graphic.
Just enjoying a dusty day at swim beach. Looks like a desert with a small puddle.
small puddle? it is the largest reservoir in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
@@AsTheWheelsTurn Not for long! It’s about to become a mirage for you soon.
@@AsTheWheelsTurn Was and was.
Old Mob hit, it seems, especially the one in the barrel.
Imagine the bodies in the oceans and greater lakes
50+ years of mobsters. Someone didn't pay their debts.
Its going to be interesting to see what happens once those turbines stop working.
It won't matter to Nevada. It's less than 5% of our power.
There are big cuts for AZ and CA before that happens.
@@TheBandit7613 Buddy in a few years you're gonna be fighting the legion to keep that Dam
The Thames has got all kinds of bodies in there from every time, and certainly not just accidental. Don't even get me started on the Ganges
They would hang people on the Thames and then discard the dead body into the river. They did that for a very long time.
Damn lol imagine swimming near that and being like: "oh what a cool rock! It's so mossy!" When you get up closer you realize its a guys body and their thighs, and bones and stuff still intact, upon further inspection the top is a torso and the bottom are legs and his penis missing.
The two bodies already found are dead, so how did they confirm the gender?
DNA, regardless of what people pretend to be. You can also tell from the bones length and shape.
@@DeathAngelHRA It is like you said,,, Continue to wear 5 face diapers, and maintain a distance of 666 feet, just get vaccinated EVERYDAY, obey your MASTERS
Look up all the bodies in bottom of Lake Tahoe and the horror behind how they got there. ALL very well preserved because it’s so cold.
This whole US is built on blood money!!!
I hope they identify the body so his/her loved ones can hopefully get some semblance of closure.
Idk what I'm looking at
I think it is a Torso.
I would’ve never thought that thing was part of a body like how the hell did he know?
fish hollowed out the body. That is fat and skin, Water does preserve to some extent. Truly sad. Remember we will all return to dust. Probably about 10-15 years old.
I never realized that five minutes was a measurement of distance....
Anyone care to weigh in and tell me how far that is?
I’ve watched footage of this several times now and I still don’t see that it was actually human. To me it looks like part of a mannequin or statue, plastic or plaster or some other material, it doesn’t look like real human remains to me.
But it is.
Don’t look up adipocere, but that’s what’s going on.
@@geligniteandlilies Omg when you tell me DON'T LOOK IT UP IT MAKES ME WANNA LOOK UP IT UP ;-; but what is adipocere?
@@geligniteandlilies oh shit....
@@Skxtra. "Adipocere, "grave wax," is a waxy or greasy decomposition product formed by hydrolysis and hydrogenation of tissue fats. Once formed, it appears stable for extended periods. Adipocere has generally been considered to result from bacterial action, commonly in warm, damp, anaerobic environments."
Have the recent rains help to fill some of the Lake Meade water?
I still think that a lot of those concrete filled 55 Gallon "anchors" may have bodies incased in them too lol
Those are not disturbing images 🙄
As a true crime enthusiast this has me intrigued, I will most definitely be following along. I hope some families will get their closure soon. 🤞🏻
Oh goddd a female true crime enthusiast with dyed hair
hahahahah I didn't know this was a stereotype.
@@funny3scene LMAO
Imagine the amount of effort that it takes to # 1- kill someone (killing isn't easy like in the movies, humans are actually very tough). Then # 2, lifting and stuffing them in a 55 gallon barrel. Then # 3, ordering & pouring concrete in the barrel. # 4- hauling the 500-600 pound barrel from Vegas to Lake Meade in a car or truck. # 5- loading it on a boat by 1 or 2 men and not being seen. # 6- lifting and rolling barrel off side of fishing boat, letting it sink 200-400 feet down. # 7- remembering you dropped your watch in the wet concrete six hours earlier...
They need to drain the entire lake to find out all the discoveries hidden underneath
Yea drain the last of our water supply brilliant
Mother Nature will do the draining for us.
@@sketchykandlez7597 is it any wonder we are where we are 😂
It's not mother nature draining it.
Why don't they drain ocean first ! Thousands have been dumped in the ocean ? 😂
Favorite place for feds to dispose of uncooperative patsys....hypothetically