beyond those 70s shoes. in any homicide investigation, the first part of the investigation is obviously we have to identify the victim. and that s what we re trying to do at this point. reporter: so two bodies found in just over a week. the body in the barrel now a homicide investigation. the skeleton found just this past weekend. suspects do not suspect foul play because accidents do happen out here on the lake, drownings. it s huge. it s windy. the water is cold. it s deep or it used to be deep. and police believe that more bodies will be found here at lake mead because the water is low and is only going to get lower. there is no end in sight for the mega drought that is causing this dramatic fall. you know, 20 years ago, maybe, the water would be just a few feet below where i m standing. now today, look at it. nick watt, cnn, lake mead, nevada. tesla and spacex ceo elon
ago, it would have been under a lot of water. this would have been somewhere near the middle of lake mead. so a safe, submerged secret. not anymore. this is now had shoreline. so detectives from vegas are now faced with a decades-old murder, a vast crime scene, and right now, very little to go on. beyond those 70s shoes. in any homicide investigation, the first part of the investigation is obviously we have to identify the victim. and that s what we re trying to do at this point. so two bodies found in just a little over a week. the body in the barrel now a homicide investigation. the skeleton found this past weekend, detectives do not suspect foul play. listen, there are accidents out here on the lake. it is huge, deep. it was deep. the water is cold, it s windy. accidents do happen out here. now, police also believe they are going to find more bodies here because there is no end in
we would have been under a lot of water. this would have been somewhere near the middle of lake mead, so a safe submerged secret. not anymore. this is now the shoreline. so detectives from vegas are now faced with a decades old murder, a vast crime scene and right now very little to go on. beyond those 70s shoes. in any homicide investigation, first part of the investigation is obviously we have to identify the victim. and that s what we re trying to do at this point. reporter: so two bodies found here in just a little over a week. the one found this past weekend, lieutenant spencer says right now they do not suspect foul play. there are accidents out here on the lake. and lieutenant spencer expects that more bodies will be found. as i mentioned, the water already at historic lows, and it could go even lower because there is no end in sight to the