A third set of human remains was found in receding Lake Mead. Could they belong to a missing Chicago mobster?
The Clark County coroner, police near Las Vegas and federal agents are working to identify this latest corpse and two others found a few months ago in the receding waters.One of the most famous lines from "The Godfather" may be playing out in real life as Lake Mead dries up and a third body turns up. "Sleeping with the fishes" is a notorious description of what happened to some organized crime figures after they were murdered by the mob.
"It's possible, of course, that the bodies that are turning up in Lake Mead are mob related...related to the Tony Spilotro years in Las Vegas," Chicago mob expert and author John Binder told the I-Team. Authorities are looking at whether the newly surfaced bodies include Jay Vandermark, a former slot machine manager for the mobbed-up Stardust casino, and Johnny Pappas, an Outfit-connected Chicagoan. Both men vanished in 1976. And could the latest body found be Billy "Bahama" Crespo, who was a mob drug courier?
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