You know, in all the times I’ve seen “The Godfather” — and I’ve watched that 1972 classic quite a bit — it never occurred to me that one day the Luca Brasis of the world could no longer be sent to sleep with the fishes.
But it appears that is exactly what’s happening in the Southwest. Las Vegas police said that a body found in a barrel in Lake Mead on Sunday was most likely a homicide victim from the 1980s. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the victim’s body was probably tossed hundreds of yards off the shore decades ago, but with the lake at its lowest level since the reservoir was filled in the 1930s, what was once deep water is now the shallows. Worse yet, Spencer said “it’s likely that we will find additional bodies that have been dumped in Lake Mead.”
Good on you if had forecast “discovery of mass grave” as a byproduct of climate change, because I sure as hell didn’t see that coming.
