A man and a woman were murdered inside their small home in the Hilltop area of Roaring Creek just before nine-thirty on Sunday night. A third person, the woman's fifteen-year-old son, was shot in his leg but survived. He is in the Western Regional Hospital receiving treatment. The incident has come as a shock to
Las Vegas Weekly
A casino executive mysteriously disappears. Hikers find a body in the desert. An ignition key sets off a car bomb.
Fortunately, these are stories from Las Vegas
’ past, not its present. But mob-related murders some solved, others enduring mysteries still loom large.
“There
’s a lot of mythology surrounding organized crime,
” says Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum in Downtown Las Vegas.
“One of the reasons for that is it can be hard to know exactly what happened; the mob was not very good at keeping notes
. … A lot of things transpired behind closed doors or in this underworld of crime.