A lake visitor found the barrel – and could see the remains inside because the barrel was corroded – at Lake Mead’s Hemenway Harbor in Nevada on May 1, 2022, authorities said.

A body found in a barrel at the bottom of Lake Mead is being tested for the DNA of a man that went missing 45 years ago. Lake Mead—a reservoir in Nevada and Arizona, formed by the Hoover Dam on ...

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A barrel containing the remains was found in early May 2022 by people walking along the shoreline of Lake Mead, which was formed in the 1930s by the construction of the Hoover Dam.

The victim was found at Hemenway Harbor at Lake Mead on May 1, 2022. Receding water levels reveal the barrel that may have been dumped in the late 1970s or early 80s.

A lake visitor found the barrel – and could see the remains inside because the barrel was corroded – at Lake Mead’s Hemenway Harbor in Nevada on May 1, 2022, authorities said.

A lake visitor found the barrel – and could see the remains inside because the barrel was corroded – at Lake Mead’s Hemenway Harbor in Nevada on May 1, 2022, authorities said.

More than a year after human remains were found in a barrel in the receding waters of Lake Mead, Nevada authorities on Wednesday released images they say are an approximation of the dead man’s face, ...

Las Vegas investigators are optimistic they'll be able to determine the identity of a homicide victim whose body was discovered inside a barrel last May on the shoreline of Lake Mead. The body was ...

A lake visitor found the barrel – and could see the remains inside because the barrel was corroded – at Lake Mead’s Hemenway Harbor in Nevada on May 1, 2022, authorities said.