in the late mid- to late 1970s. reporter: back in those day, las vegas was a gangster s paradise that inspired a cinematic staple. remember casino ? meeting in the middle of the desert always made me nervous. it s a scary place. reporter: dead bodies in trunks, shallow graves, cement boots. we re assuming mafia, everything because it s vegas. reporter: these two retired vegas cops, now podcast hosts are offering $5,000 to any diver who finds another body. i feel it would be interesting to close out some cases or identify some people that are mission persons. so the body in the barrel that was found was found right here when it was dumped decades 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 the shoreline. and so detectives from vegas are now faced with a decades old murder, a vast crime scene, and right now very little to go on
clearly a homicide investigation. because in that decomposing body, they found a gunshot wound. we believe the incident occurred in the late 1970s to early 80s. and we re basing that upon footwear and clothing that the victim was found wearing. and we know that that footwear and clothing was sold at kmart in the late mid to late 1970s. back in those days, las vegas was a gangster s paradise that inspired a cinematic staple, remember casino? meeting in the middle of the desert always made me nervous. it s a scary place. dead bodies in trunks, shallow graves, cement boots. we re assuming mafia, assuming everything because it s vegas. these two retired vegas cops, now podcast hosts, are offering $5,000 to any diver who finds another body. i feel, you know, just interesting to kind of close out some cases or identify some people that are missing persons. so the body in the barrel that was found was found right here when it was dumped decades
reporter: because in that decomposing body, they found a gunshot wound. we believe the incident occurred in the late 1970s to early 80s and we re basing that upon footwear and clothing that the victim was found wearing. and we know that that footwear and clothing was sold at kmart in the late mid to late 1970s. reporter: back in those days, vegas was a gangsters paradise that inspired a cinematic staple. remember casino? meeting in the middle of the desert made me nervous. it is a scary place. reporter: dead bodies in tru trunks, shallow graves, cement boots. we re assuming mafia because it is vegas. reporter: these two retired vegas cops, now podcast hosts, are offering a reward to a diver who finds a body. it would be interesting to close out some cases or identify some people that are missing persons. reporter: so the body in the barrel that was found was found right here. when it was dumped decades ago,
of war crimes, and mass graves, shallow graves, and so they feel that the president is out in front, and leading in this response but there are concerns from other appointees that his words could complicate any sort of negotiations for a cease-fire. we saw that from the french president macron. he did not embrace the rhetoric. you also had the reporting about gina mccarthy, the white house climate adviser and about her imminent departure. what do we know about the reasons why she is stepping down. i think this was long planned. she is not confirming it just yet. but i think she had always come in and just wanted to establish this position, this was obviously a newly-created position, from president biden, to signal list commitment to climate and combatting climate change, this is a domestic counterpart to secretary john kelly at the state department, and so i think she s played a big role in trying to implement the agenda, but she never planned to stay for long, and i think this is
now day after day, of people bury being peburied in their backyards, front yards, wherever it s possible, in shallow graves and we have heard that repeatedly about people afraid that the dogs will come, and so they try to cover the grave with with something. it s just so um it s just so friggin brutal. it is brutal. it s brutal and honestly, anderson, it s just absolutely haunting. i mean, seeing that man, nikolai, imagining him under heavy fire. and i should add, one thing that we weren t able to get into the piece today but he actually lost his hearing entirely almost as a result of just nights and nights, weeks on end, of heavy bombardment, explosions going off all around him. and you can imagine him trying to bury his nephew in a shallow grave, um, not having any real assistance around him. he said that basically, he was one of the only people who decided to tough it out and