https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/home daily 1.0 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572058416394-NONKXL47E2GJR02LEW97/patreon2.jpg Home Click here to support Mayhem in the Desert! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1531714765359-VJ0LPQ4H2GIBIS1BJX30/homemeans7.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1569736448222-D5OSFVBM89L5R3I7U4KF/block16pc.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1570942358022-2E8LWX5XM3XDLGJEJZ3V/mayhemcontact.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1571028438119-6JU37FMXIX8EANQI93WS/mayhembannerbackground14.jpg Home https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin daily 0.75 2024-12-16 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/12/15/same-words-on-rounds-fired-at-unitedhealthcare-ceo-tagged-on-las-vegas-uhc-offices monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/d622b743-4847-4e12-99fa-46b021515d5a/mangione1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Similar Words on Rounds Fired at UnitedHealthcare CEO Tagged on Las Vegas UHC Offices - Make it stand out Mugshot of Luigi Mangione, alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO. (Altoona Police Department) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/10/31/five-years-of-mayhem monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/fd15910a-b0ea-4242-8977-c9f69f9018db/mayhemlogo3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Five Years of Mayhem! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/9/14/abduction-at-primm-the-kidnapping-and-murder-of-alexander-harris monthly 0.5 2024-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/261cdd07-5d78-4608-8ec7-56e2d7f6ab4c/harrismurder3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Abduction at Primm: The Kidnapping and Murder of Alexander Harris - Make it stand out In 1997, another 7-year-old child was murdered in a Primm casino after being left in a video arcade while the parent gambled. Jeremy Strohmeyer, a Long Beach teenager, assaulted and murdered Sherrice Iverson at the Primadonna Resort. His case received wide press coverage in both California and Nevada, along with his friend David Cash, Jr., who witnessed the crime but did nothing to stop it. (UCR/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/Murderpedia.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/6ff901bc-3cd4-45d2-a029-bc3a37a0b1ee/harrismurder2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Abduction at Primm: The Kidnapping and Murder of Alexander Harris - Make it stand out Computer programmer Howard Lee Haupt was charged with the murder of Alexander Harris, and his five week long trial garnered significant media attention in Las Vegas. Haupt was acquitted of murder due to the lack of evidence in support of the State’s case. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/4f444931-09af-4202-9986-15e9c8ab6663/harrismurder1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Abduction at Primm: The Kidnapping and Murder of Alexander Harris - Make it stand out Alexander Harris was abducted from the video arcade at Whiskey Pete’s in November of 1987. His disappearance captured local press attention, coverage that only amplified once Harris’ body was found a month after his disappearance under a nearby mobile home. Police released a suspect of the man seen leading Harris out of the hotel. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Wikipedia) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/7/12/a-torso-in-the-pond-the-murder-of-ladonna-milam monthly 0.5 2024-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/12346294-b210-4a1c-8344-095833a40529/bctorso7.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Torso in the Pond: The Murder of Ladonna Milam - Make it stand out Las Vegas media speculated over whether Perry Monroe committed additional murders during the several weeks he traveled across the United States before the murder of Ladonna Milam, though no definitive ties to other crimes was found. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/c84fa972-7a17-40fb-a829-f7b0c1628c0b/bctorso4.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Torso in the Pond: The Murder of Ladonna Milam - Make it stand out An idyllic park was the scene of a grisly discovery involving a well-liked local of Boulder City and employee of a nearby hotel in 2003. (Wikipedia/TripAdvisor/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/e41a832e-8c08-439f-b876-b5fa03e62069/bctorso5.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Torso in the Pond: The Murder of Ladonna Milam - Make it stand out Local media covered the quick arrest of a suspect in the murder of hotel maid Ladonna Milam, who was murdered by part-time college student Perry Monroe in Room 1651 of the Hacienda Hotel near Boulder City. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/TripAdvisor/Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/d3d7ce18-56f1-4eae-aafe-979fede93907/bctorso6.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Torso in the Pond: The Murder of Ladonna Milam - Make it stand out The murder case against Perry Monroe lasted for over a decade, all of which was covered regularly by local Las Vegas media as seen here, including repeated continuances of the proceedings to determine whether Monroe was competent to stand trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/6/30/if-i-can-finance-him-and-i-will-i-can-finance-anybody-the-scandals-of-fred-and-gmf-motors monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/c493da34-b5d1-4182-b145-9280718e400a/gmf6.jpg Crime Bulletin - "If I Can Finance Him, and I Will…" - The Scandals of Fred and GMF Motors - Make it stand out Fred Fayeghi was found in criminal contempt of court in 1993 in relation to a brawl he started with the attorneys for his former business partner in the halls of the Foley Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas. Fayeghi’s ups and downs were covered regularly in the local press during the decades he operated GMF Motors. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/e76ab51d-d8d5-40bd-965a-4a043596e9ad/gmf7.jpg Crime Bulletin - "If I Can Finance Him, and I Will…" - The Scandals of Fred and GMF Motors - Make it stand out A finance manager was accused of committing sexual assault against a customer at the GMF Motors lot in 1993. The case was followed by the local press, including the sudden dismissal of charges. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/6c0d6dbe-2267-4f7e-ba27-6ad77f02b484/gmf9.jpg Crime Bulletin - "If I Can Finance Him, and I Will…" - The Scandals of Fred and GMF Motors - Make it stand out Coverage of Fayeghi’s problems with the IRS over allegations of unreported income as written up by Las Vegas journalist John L. Smith, summing matters up in his trademark style. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/bc7f8b24-d339-4dc1-ad28-e21c84c3e23e/gmf10.jpg Crime Bulletin - "If I Can Finance Him, and I Will…" - The Scandals of Fred and GMF Motors - Make it stand out A few of the more memorable GMF Motors commercials that left their mark on Las Vegas locals living in the city during the 80’s and 90’s. These commercials were regularly voted as the worst in the city several years running. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/YouTube) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/0013dad7-85fc-48eb-850b-64e7172f970e/gmf4.jpg Crime Bulletin - "If I Can Finance Him, and I Will…" - The Scandals of Fred and GMF Motors - Make it stand out Owner of GMF Motors, Fred Fayeghi, was a frequent fixture in the local Las Vegas press, with the coverage a mixture of negative and positive. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2024/3/5/murder-at-castaways-hotel monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/c8f475ac-a475-4579-9371-cbe26b902d16/castaways7.png Crime Bulletin - Murder at Castaways Hotel - Make it stand out The murder of Cynthia Jo Dane at The Castaways Hotel on the Strip in 1982 garnered barely a mention in the local press. The Castaways was closed in 1987 and demolished in 2006. Pictured in the upper left corner is a room of the Castaways during the time of Dane’s murder. (LVCCLD/UNVL Digital Collection/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/b4bc3052-945d-439b-b3f2-19a24349e231/castaways5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Murder at Castaways Hotel - Make it stand out (LVMPD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2023/8/2/the-luxor-bombing monthly 0.5 2023-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/3556d7ff-1624-478f-a2fe-3cf059cebc42/luxor1.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Luxor Bombing - Make it stand out Local news outlets in Las Vegas extensively covered a 2007 bombing at the Luxor hotel and casino on the Strip, including initial concerns over the bombing being related to terrorism and the prosecution of the two men responsible for the crime. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/KLAS) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2023/2/19/r32ijqx6sa58pweg90w09p41vruxlc monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/571dbbba-51b3-4c10-8dd3-2fc6fb3cc307/tighe1.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Vanishing at Chaparral High: The Murder of Catherine Tighe - Make it stand out Entry regarding the Tighe murder on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s cold case site. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1f44fdaf-35e9-4a89-84ad-73df86e5822a/bryantsolved8.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Vanishing at Chaparral High: The Murder of Catherine Tighe - Make it stand out Johnny Blake Peterson, killer of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson. Peterson is being looked at for his potential involvement in up to five murders around the Las Vegas area during the 70’s - 80’s. Peterson died in 1993. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/775a47d2-bf77-48a8-a1a7-a15594cce808/tighe2.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Vanishing at Chaparral High: The Murder of Catherine Tighe - Make it stand out Catherine Tighe, who went missing from Chaparral High School in 1983. Her body was found not far away near Twain and Boulder Highway. The Tighe murder remains unsolved. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/4d04b528-0150-455b-9733-feef2fb3a18c/tighe21.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Vanishing at Chaparral High: The Murder of Catherine Tighe - Make it stand out The Las Vegas press covered the possibility that serial killer Herbert James Coddington may have been responsible for the Tighe murder. Coddington was believed to have murdered at 12-year-old girl in Las Vegas in 1981, only two years before the Tighe slaying. (Murderpedia/LVRJ/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/a0f54cdd-e11e-4f70-9c03-d826342faf20/tighe20.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Vanishing at Chaparral High: The Murder of Catherine Tighe - Make it stand out Coverage of the Tighe murder covered more than a decade in Las Vegas newspapers. The last article covering the unsolved crime was published in 1997. Google Map showing the area where Tighe’s body was recovered not far from Chaparral High School, where the student went missing (LVRJ/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/Google/CCSD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2023/2/12/check-out-mayhem-in-the-deserts-youtube-page monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/af640061-c246-4fe0-841d-1b6583de4619/shawthumbnail.jpg Crime Bulletin - Check Out Mayhem in the Desert's YouTube Page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2023/2/12/judge-and-father-of-bellagio-bandit-appointed-to-nevada-gaming-control-board monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/3da10589-fef4-41b3-9b30-93ade9372b32/bellagio11.jpg Crime Bulletin - Judge and Father of "Bellagio Bandit" Appointed to Nevada Gaming Control Board - Make it stand out (Clockwise from upper left corner) Some of the intensive local news coverage of the Bellagio Bandit once it was learned the robber’s father was a Las Vegas Municipal Court judge; security footage of the Bellagio robbery; Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo, who appointed former judge George Assad to the Nevada Gaming Control Board; Judge Assad; First page of findings against Judge Assad for improperly jailing a woman in his court. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/NV Governor’s Office/Nevada Courts/NV Gaming Control Board). https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/12/18/1973-strangling-death-of-barbara-jean-kirk-unsolved monthly 0.5 2022-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/3874403a-43c9-4f29-a0a1-b7ff2b51afab/kirk20.jpg Crime Bulletin - Murder Before Dawn: 1973 Death of Barbara Jean Kirk Unsolved - Make it stand out The murder of Barbara Jean Kirk remains unsolved after nearly 50 years. The Google Maps image above shows the neighborhood where the crime occurred. Also featured is how the local news covered the Kirk murder investigation, as well as news coverage of the arrest of a resident of the Bonanza Gardens apartment complex on charges of sexual assault in 1968. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/bb04824b-b231-46d5-bc75-44bee2708fd9/kirk16.jpg Crime Bulletin - Murder Before Dawn: 1973 Death of Barbara Jean Kirk Unsolved - Make it stand out 19-year-old Barbara Jean Kirk was strangled to death in her Las Vegas apartment in May of 1973. Her case remains unsolved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/b1c83a4c-789c-401f-953a-ba51c0212018/kirk19.jpg Crime Bulletin - Murder Before Dawn: 1973 Death of Barbara Jean Kirk Unsolved - Make it stand out Barbara’s husband, Renzie Kirk, served as an airman at Nellis Air Force Base in 1973 (pictured here at that time). The couple had been high school sweethearts back in Tennessee and relocated to Las Vegas in late-1972. Renzie Kirk left the couple’s apartment early in the morning on May 3, 1973 - Barbara would be murdered less than an hour later. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/96621a39-04f6-44f1-acae-285999337f08/kirk17.jpg Crime Bulletin - Murder Before Dawn: 1973 Death of Barbara Jean Kirk Unsolved - Make it stand out Local Las Vegas newspapers covered the murder of Barbara Jean Kirk as the murder of a young woman while alone in her apartment shocked the community. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/12/11/a9n2ke09dbdqmbpyqnrq0bb0t594qm monthly 0.5 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/e2bf2c21-9dd2-41c5-b525-77a1add9a57f/carts10.JPG Crime Bulletin - The Sophisticated Shopping Cart Thieves of North Las Vegas - Make it stand out Wayward shopping carts outside of a Las Vegas Smith’s (Anthony T. Smith 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/e6ff4909-7bef-400d-b4fb-46a63a300217/carts12.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Sophisticated Shopping Cart Thieves of North Las Vegas - Make it stand out The Las Vegas press continuously covered issues with the theft of shopping carts from area stores over the decades, including reporting on a “sophisticated” gang of shopping cart thieves operating in North Las Vegas in early 1972. Local grocery stores took a variety of efforts to protect their carts from being misappropriated, including publishing ads about the issue next to coupons. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ). https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/12/4/mother-and-daughters-unsolved-1998-homicide-not-forgotten monthly 0.5 2022-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1fed7736-fe59-4a38-85ce-ac1d7dec2388/burkin20.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother and Daughter's Unsolved 1998 Homicide Not Forgotten - Make it stand out 70-year-old Agnes Burkin and her 48-year-old daughter Sharyn Burkin were stabbed to death over Labor Day weekend of 1998 in a southeast Las Vegas neighborhood. Despite the savage and apparent random nature of the crime, one of the largest newspapers in the area only carried two stories about the investigation into the Burkin murders. Photo of the crime scene at 4620 Glenn Davis Drive. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/de4f473a-d14c-4e06-8280-a72c6b58d075/burkin21.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother and Daughter's Unsolved 1998 Homicide Not Forgotten - Make it stand out The Burkin murders occurred near the Terra Linda housing development near Nellis Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The Terra Linda neighborhood drew plenty of local publicity for its grand opening in 1963, as seen here via ads and coverage in the Las Vegas press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/92099f01-1c0b-44d8-ac84-a184f589e76d/burkin23.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother and Daughter's Unsolved 1998 Homicide Not Forgotten - Make it stand out Scene of the Burkin murders in southeast Las Vegas. (Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/8381a23d-a9f8-4cd0-a815-dc0772035b75/burkin22.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother and Daughter's Unsolved 1998 Homicide Not Forgotten - Make it stand out Photos of Glenn Davis Drive as it appears in 2022. The home where the murders occurred sits across from a brick wall, and as the Google satellite image shows, the home is tucked away on the block. (Anthony T. Smith/Google.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/a763e1fa-1251-4aef-a32c-3ea08bc72050/burkin24.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother and Daughter's Unsolved 1998 Homicide Not Forgotten - Make it stand out The next door neighbor of the Burkins wrote a letter to the editor which was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in early 1999 lamenting the lack of attention on the case. Screenshot of Metro’s website taken in 2022 listing the Burkin case as one of several cold cases for which information is still being sought. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/LVMPD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/11/26/accused-las-vegas-serial-killer-denies-involvement-in-triple-murders monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/6490cb0d-70a6-449b-be3f-9a2a9470994d/brown7.jpg Crime Bulletin - Accused teenage Serial Killer Denies Involvement in Three Vegas Murders - Make it stand out Surveillance footage of the suspect believed to be involved in three separate murders in Las Vegas between January and June of 2022. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/86eb2d3d-fd6c-408f-ad15-3d5a62679deb/brown10.png Crime Bulletin - Accused teenage Serial Killer Denies Involvement in Three Vegas Murders - Make it stand out Scene of one of three murders committed along East Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas from early-to-mid 2022. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/56cfc9fa-8506-4b32-8136-64a5f91ecf35/brown8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Accused teenage Serial Killer Denies Involvement in Three Vegas Murders - Make it stand out Mugshot photo of Alonzo “AJ” Brown, arrested in connection with the murders of Josue Nain-Chaparro-Montalvo, Paulo Viana, and Tevin Alhashemi (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/bee75202-0d3f-47d2-a23c-fb5f09b6ef6f/brown12.jpg Crime Bulletin - Accused teenage Serial Killer Denies Involvement in Three Vegas Murders - Make it stand out Alonzo Brown denied his involvement in three murders in southeast Las Vegas in 2022. One of Brown’s alleged victims, Tevin Alhashemi, had his own criminal issues covered in the local newspaper in 2016. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/11/12/did-the-suspect-in-a-1997-double-murder-end-up-at-the-bottom-of-lake-mead monthly 0.5 2022-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/c4e01c87-cc74-4acd-95aa-921e30968f2f/rowe9.jpg Crime Bulletin - Did the Suspect in a 1997 Double Murder End Up at the Bottom of Lake Mead? - Make it stand out Lake Mead as seen in 2022 driving from Nevada into Arizona. Double murder suspect Robert Rowe disappeared at Lake Mead in 1997. (Photo by Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/cac3e3cd-4f71-440c-b474-668bec65321f/rowe11.jpg Crime Bulletin - Did the Suspect in a 1997 Double Murder End Up at the Bottom of Lake Mead? - Make it stand out Generally, there was scant attention paid to the Robert Rowe murder case by the Las Vegas press - and apparently no mention of the double murders and Rowe’s subsequent disappearance were noted in the national news. These articles were some of the only contemporary mentions of the case in the Las Vegas newspapers. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/8851421c-af75-4695-be3e-cbaf66688436/rowe10.jpg Crime Bulletin - Did the Suspect in a 1997 Double Murder End Up at the Bottom of Lake Mead? - Make it stand out There is very little information available online about the disappearance of Robert Rowe. One of the most informative sources we found was this 1997 article by veteran Las Vegas journalist John L. Smith. This article provides a detailed account of the bizarre facts surrounding Rowe’s murder of two relatives and possible escape and/or suicide. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/11/11/mother-to-plead-guilty-in-memorial-day-murder-of-autistic-son monthly 0.5 2022-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/5001c51b-6efa-4885-ae1d-818413b5af4e/moreno1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother to Plead Guilty in Memorial Day Murder of Autistic Son - Make it stand out Court records of Moreno-Rodriguez’s agreement to plead guilty to the murder of her son. She will serve a minimum of 28 years in prison. (Clark County Courts) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/db6c741a-b204-4ac5-a83d-4dd89ec41e09/moreno5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother to Plead Guilty in Memorial Day Murder of Autistic Son - Make it stand out Image released in an effort to identify the remains of a young boy discovered in the mountains outside of Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend in 2021. (Center for Missing and Exploited Children) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/39e6c642-99a2-4ae5-9ec2-a32bbb303bb0/moreno4.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother to Plead Guilty in Memorial Day Murder of Autistic Son - Make it stand out Photo of Samantha Moreno-Rodriguez after her arrest for the murder of her 7-year-old son, Liam Husted. Moreno-Rodriguez told investigators that she became frustrated with Liam and strangled him to death in a fit of rage. (CCDC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/f2adbc16-a911-4efb-9af1-8dbfb0316554/moreno2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Mother to Plead Guilty in Memorial Day Murder of Autistic Son - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/9af774ca-0c00-440c-b719-213f456b230c/moreno6.JPG Crime Bulletin - Mother to Plead Guilty in Memorial Day Murder of Autistic Son - Make it stand out The body found outside of Las Vegas on May 28, 2021 was later identified as that of 7-year-old Liam Husted. Liam’s mother, Samantha Moreno-Rodriguez, had suddenly left her home in San Jose with Liam on May 24, 2021. Liam’s family remembered him as a sweet and intelligent boy. (Facebook) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/11/6/arrest-made-in-brutal-1980-murder-of-young-las-vegas-mother monthly 0.5 2022-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1667770294526-MM9ZQR7AD0D3TO71UQGN/nuttallcase2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest Made in Brutal 1980 Murder of Young Las Vegas Mother - Make it stand out DiFelice had a 3-year-old daughter that resided with her at the time of her murder in East Las Vegas. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1667770029894-RROAPS3NDYZLW0CAMNS1/nuttall11.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest Made in Brutal 1980 Murder of Young Las Vegas Mother - Make it stand out The scene of the DiFelice murder later became a well-known East Las Vegas landmark - the local headquarters of The Hells Angels. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1667769845832-33ZLTD6LAW58FBCE4T40/nuttall9.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest Made in Brutal 1980 Murder of Young Las Vegas Mother - Make it stand out Paul Nuttall was interviewed by police as a potential suspect in the DiFelice murder not long after the slaying, but there was insufficient evidence to charge him with the crime. Nuttall largely avoided run-ins with the law after the DiFelice murder and went on to have children of his own. Nuttall faced criminal charges in the 90’s for nonpayment of child support. DNA evidence linked Nuttall to the DiFelice murder, and he was arrested for the crime in October of 2022. Nuttall maintains his innocence. (LVMPD/Clark County Courts/CCDC/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1667768685017-SER58QM5YUTZDARCKFOC/nuttall4.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest Made in Brutal 1980 Murder of Young Las Vegas Mother - Make it stand out Local Las Vegas press noted the 1980 murder of Sandra DiFelice was among the most savage crimes in the city’s history. Despite this, the DiFelice murder did not garner much attention in the local news. Photo of DiFelice near the time of her murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/LVMPD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/10/2/arrest-of-budding-serial-killer-targeting-las-vegas-homeless monthly 0.5 2022-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664708152465-198MQ6EYBN92O1MV7IEW/martell6.PNG Crime Bulletin - Arrest of Budding Serial Killer Targeting Las Vegas Homeless - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664708446006-D5OIEYDUYIC9HFPGOI6F/martell7.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest of Budding Serial Killer Targeting Las Vegas Homeless - Make it stand out Image of the University District area where a killer targeting homeless individuals operated during September of 2022, alongside security footage of the person believed responsible for the attacks. (Google Maps/LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664708633369-ZDL4I32Z7DXN2M9OTUXS/martell8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest of Budding Serial Killer Targeting Las Vegas Homeless - Make it stand out Christopher Martell, who lived not far from where a series of four stabbings occurred during September of 2022, was arrested on two charges of murder and two charges of attempted murder in relation to a series of attacks targeting homeless people. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664708662475-L1NJQNMDO045006H67DU/serial8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Arrest of Budding Serial Killer Targeting Las Vegas Homeless - Make it stand out Shane Schindler (Left), likely culprit of two bludgeoning deaths in downtown Las Vegas. Joshua Castellon (Right) convicted of murdering two homeless men in Las Vegas and attempting to kill two other people. Scene of Las Vegas unsheltered homeless people. (YouTube) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/10/1/five-years-since-october-1-and-motive-remains-mystery monthly 0.5 2022-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664680979395-2A4KEEUJIVFMZRWXESAO/oct+1+2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Five Years Since October 1 and Motive Remains Mystery - Make it stand out Scene of the October 1 shooting in 2017. (FEMA.gov) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664688531750-ZPFU32ZQG69R5O3PO2N5/oct+1+14.jpg Crime Bulletin - Five Years Since October 1 and Motive Remains Mystery - Make it stand out Multiple news outlets have covered Stephen Paddock’s issues with gambling leading up to the October 1 shooting. (NBC News/CBS News/CS Monitor/news.com.au) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1664685140695-ELRQXSA4GMDYI5OGEG7U/oct+1+13.jpg Crime Bulletin - Five Years Since October 1 and Motive Remains Mystery - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/9/8/clark-county-elected-official-rob-telles-arrested-in-reporters-murder monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662626180875-6O909VH2XZ78KTWAL04P/telles11.jpg Crime Bulletin - Clark County Elected Official Rob Telles Arrested in Reporter's Murder - Make it stand out Photo of the suspect in the murder of reporter Jeff German beside comparison photo of Clark County Public Administrator Rob Telles. (LVMPD/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662626510492-OFV84J734TUC8WE6CINU/telles15.png Crime Bulletin - Clark County Elected Official Rob Telles Arrested in Reporter's Murder - Make it stand out Local media broadcast Rob Telles outside his home in bizarre garb after being interviewed by Las Vegas police on September 7, 2022. (KLAS) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662626558195-X79A4Y9V69NVXW36OL9P/telles12.jpg Crime Bulletin - Clark County Elected Official Rob Telles Arrested in Reporter's Murder - Make it stand out Screenshots from site for Accolade Law, Telles’ former law firm, along with a biography written by Telles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662626634455-V0MOD6W6GJHDC8S4KKUC/telles8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Clark County Elected Official Rob Telles Arrested in Reporter's Murder - Make it stand out The Las Vegas Sun endorsed Telles in his race for Public Administrator during the 2018 election. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LV Sun) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662626592760-O9A45Z3IUZ333IC1YKSU/telles4.PNG Crime Bulletin - Clark County Elected Official Rob Telles Arrested in Reporter's Murder - Make it stand out Register of actions showing Rob Telles charged with open murder. (Clark County Courts) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/9/4/las-vegas-journalist-jeff-german-murdered-outside-home monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662349761657-37AQ2TVCN502TTPKEU75/german5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Las Vegas Journalist Jeff German Murdered Outside Home - Make it stand out The tragic murder of Las Vegas journalist Jeff German outside of his home on September 3, 2022 drew international press coverage. German was a respected Nevada journalist that worked diligently for decades as an investigative and crime reporter. (The Guardian/The Daily Beast/USA Today/Yahoo News/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/9/3/a-forgotten-lake-mead-murder monthly 0.5 2022-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662252696138-P22RX8PBUOET8AY8OBC8/harder42.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out News outlets across the world turned their focus to Lake Mead after the discovery of a murder victim enclosed in a barrel at the nation’s largest reservoir in May of this year. (BBC/NBC News/NY Times/NY Post) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662247778621-8H5FO727LEZKPODPHCDO/harder21.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out Sara Harder’s crime appears to fall into the category of “altruistic” maternal filicides. (NIH) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662249982573-MMLEF3D6K95J4UOHUEXB/harder15.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out Sara Harder was released on parole after serving almost 10 years in prison. Local news covering Harder’s parole noted similarities between her case and the more recent one of Susan Smith, a young mother that murdered her two children by drowning them in a South Carolina lake in 1994. Unlike Harder’s case, Smith’s crime was covered across the country. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/NVDOC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662247581739-L84RIR92ZCT64KNKB972/harder14.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out In November of 1986, Las Vegas resident Sara Catherine Harder committed an unthinkable crime at Lake Mead. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662248270890-NYJCU5JIGZX2XVW6WBQB/harder20.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out Sara Harder’s case did not receive any apparent coverage outside of the local Las Vegas news outlets. Even then, local news outlets provided only minimal coverage of the crime. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1662248232079-WNVSNY7WXJ0ICIB48RER/harder22.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Forgotten Murder at Lake Mead - Make it stand out Sara Catherine Harder murdered her 7-year-old son Darren along the shores of Lake Mead not far from the Marina. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/8/16/robert-eugene-shaw-a-mysterious-disappearance-and-a-barrel-at-lake-mead monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1660711485451-FQSOY9WTA24GDFQDN4DV/shaw8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Robert Eugene Shaw, a Mysterious Disappearance, and a Barrel at Lake Mead - Make it stand out Photos of Robert Eugene Shaw aka “Bob Shaw” from NamUs. Police are looking into whether Shaw is the body found in a barrel at Lake Mead in early May of 2022. (NamUs.gov) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/8/14/bobbi-eugene-shaw-and-the-lake-mead-barrel monthly 0.5 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1660543055913-D2A5ZQBD9Y4WO5J2473I/shawlakemead7.jpg Crime Bulletin - Bobbi Eugene Shaw, Al Bramlet, and the Lake Mead Barrel - Make it stand out The 1976 strike led by Bramlet’s Culinary Union Local 226 that shut down the Strip for two weeks garnered extensive coverage in the local Vegas press, including the violent flareups during the labor demonstration and the economic impacts to the tourist economy. Mentioned amidst the coverage was the arrest of Culinary Union member Robert E. Shaw. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1660543034430-HT44H210E28C611SZ156/shawlakemead6.jpg Crime Bulletin - Bobbi Eugene Shaw, Al Bramlet, and the Lake Mead Barrel - Make it stand out International news coverage has been focused on the discovery of a body in a barrel at Lake Mead in May of this year. Local news covered the possible identification of the remains with missing Las Vegan Bobbi Eugene Shaw. (KVVU/Las Vegas-Clark Country Library District/LVRJ/Shawna Hollister/KLAS/@VegasIssues) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1660543077458-NONHBNZQ8WC4AQA4N4WZ/bramlet25.jpg Crime Bulletin - Bobbi Eugene Shaw, Al Bramlet, and the Lake Mead Barrel - Make it stand out Headlines after a series of bombings at restaurants across Las Vegas from 1975-77. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/LVMPD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/7/10/the-unsolved-torso-murders-of-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657506347287-GR0ZZ70R7LG3BHI5T7NO/torso46.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Civic Center John Doe was another unsolved “torso murder” from 1990’s Las Vegas. Police were hopeful that the extensive number of tattoos on the victim’s body would result in an identification, but nobody came forward with a name and no missing persons reports matched the recovered remains. The Clark County Coroner’s Office used to publish details of unidentified crime victims (this has since been discontinued), and the victim’s tattoos were published on the Coroner’s website in a continuing effort to identify the John Doe. Police theorized that the close location of I-15 may have created an easy exit route for whoever disposed of the victim’s remains. Local press offered relatively sparse coverage of this case given the grisly circumstances of the murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County Coroner’s Office/Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657506307015-E92E0UVN5PPEEJJHLGZ5/torso41.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford was suspected of murdering at least six women across California and Nevada. Ford confessed to murdering sex worker Tina Gibbs after meeting her on a Las Vegas street in 1998. Homicide detectives looked into Ford in relation to the murder of Silver State Jane Doe due to Ford working as a cab driver in North Las Vegas during the mid-90’s, but police felt the timeline was not right to consider Ford a suspect. The shocking circumstances of Wayne Adam Ford’s arrest - he walked into a California police station and took a severed human body part from his pocket - resulted in extensive local and national press coverage. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657506381396-AZHZ5G2WUQQ9R159EEQV/torso48.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out These authors were here in Las Vegas during the massive boom of the 1990’s, which saw tens of thousands of people per year moving to sprawling desert subdivisions. The extraordinary population explosion was a frequent topic of coverage in the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657506015783-B6M77Q5I9CVIZB1YIK21/torso40.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out The gruesome murder of Silver State Jane Doe, whose dismembered remains were discovered at the Silver State Disposal recycling plant in September of 1995, garnered significant local press attention as police used local media to publicize information about the case in the hopes of identifying the victim. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County Coroner’s Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657506888467-AK4LUJ85RHDN6AK9M63F/torso49.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Some of the minimal local press coverage of the case reported on police theories about the cause of death for Civic Center John Doe. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1657505979279-3OGU84XYP8XI3QPISRP2/torso36.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Torso Murders of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Two unsolved torso murders occurred during the 1990’s boom years in Las Vegas. Local press covered the murders of “Silver State Jane Doe” and “Civic Center John Doe,” with both cases characterized by dismemberment of the victims. However, the Silver State Jane Doe case piqued more public interest and accordingly garnered more local press coverage. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County Coroner’s Office) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/6/26/old-mobsters-never-diethey-just-shoot-up-car-dealerships monthly 0.5 2022-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1656228457556-VI023LWIWKQJCWO3EZQW/manarite29.jpg Crime Bulletin - Old Mobsters Never Die…They Just Shoot Up Car Dealerships - Make it stand out It was shocking when octogenarian mobster Sam Manarite shot up a car dealership in 2002, prompting local Vegas press to highlight the shooting in relation to Manarite’s long criminal record. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1656228259670-C9S2Q7UM07FSA8LE6I8B/manarite27.jpg Crime Bulletin - Old Mobsters Never Die…They Just Shoot Up Car Dealerships - Make it stand out Coverage in the local Las Vegas press over the years detailing the criminal exploits of Genovese family capo Salvatore “Springfield Sam” Manarite from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1656228378702-TNOZPEAQKUECKVXQ06DW/manarite28.jpg Crime Bulletin - Old Mobsters Never Die…They Just Shoot Up Car Dealerships - Make it stand out The local Vegas press covered the variety of criminal enterprises in which mobster Sam Manarite engaged during his time living in the city. Noted Vegas journalist John L. Smith often made Manarite the topic of his weekly column in the Review-Journal. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/6/18/dean-martin-conviction-for-carrying-a-concealed-weapon monthly 0.5 2022-06-19 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/6/15/recap-of-crime-con-2022-in-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655620162664-OHPQ92B58CBJTX6UENPO/con104.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613532517-WPNZ2OR8WHTS7E4HU6TD/con63.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Photos from the not-so-fun part of CrimeCon - waiting at the Lyft pick-up area in the heat. Our drivers were all really nice, including a lady that worked Lyft while waiting to pick her son up from his job on the Strip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613104599-WZOPHP4VNI8QVXTFA2DO/con56.JPG Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Entrance to CrimeCon 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655605394277-AI2XH01V1FN2T8IFYPWA/con65.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Us and author E.J. Hammon at CrimeCon 2022! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613173337-VV5BQBKZZZZ6Q593SCG3/con61.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Getting ready for the convention and Mayhem on the CrimeCon line up of exhibits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613338543-4PGWHQPWR8TCQRRWC2V1/con102.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613308150-7HIET4VE7OBPZ3A5DKQK/con105.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Scenes from our exhibit booth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655604899518-35RZ20TR8350FTL7Y0GK/con62.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Scenes from CrimeCon 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613223696-NTH18GV1K43HP5ZZULO1/con64.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Photos from inside The Paris where CrimeCon was held. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613592353-39TQE0Q47SSVUZRJK2OK/con85.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613485862-D9YJERKQKU3JW64GHWL0/con91.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out The most emotionally impactful moments of the convention were meeting families seeking justice or answers for their loved ones. We met the family of Daniel Robinson, a geologist that went missing in Buckeye, Arizona. We also met the mothers of Sydney Lane and Neo Kaufmann, a couple whose 2016 murders remain unsolved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613379805-D9XA6H70PEG6QBX77QDY/con70.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613415697-JJZXE30LDDVEU4VT088S/con67.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out We are planning on attending CrimeCon 2023! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655613459020-HTX7C7L285C3K5DQILB3/con93.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655605343164-QT0VT7UMF3L9ITU5XD0P/con66.PNG Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Meeting David Mittelman, PhD of Othram, Inc. We were able to discuss Othram’s work in solving the Kim Bryant case after over 40 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1655353483341-F3QSINKVVLPG3WVOWIMZ/con26.jpg Crime Bulletin - Recap of Crime Con 2022 in Vegas - Make it stand out Us at our Mayhem in the Desert booth at Crime Con 2022 in Las Vegas. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/5/15/the-mafias-history-of-barrel-murders monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1652654087775-A1ZPOHN8G5NY04L7E2ZF/barrel28.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mafia's History of Barrel Murders - Make it stand out Johnny Roselli, a member of the Chicago Outfit, oversaw the Mob’s operations in Las Vegas during the 1950’s and 60’s. Roselli found himself at the center of national press coverage when it was discovered he had been recruited by the CIA as part of a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Roselli’s mutilated body was found in a barrel off of Miami in 1976. Roselli owned a gift shop at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas at the time of his death. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1652653843676-E06NZ7AZFQGEBRDQ20ZW/lakemeadbarrel3.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mafia's History of Barrel Murders - Make it stand out Local press immediately commenced coverage of the discovery of skeletal remains inside of a barrel at Lake Mead over the weekend of April 29, 2022. (Shawna Hollister/KLAS/@VegasIssues) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1652654430034-PLX8YOJJJSSKZIMV3X6X/lakemeadbarrel1.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mafia's History of Barrel Murders - Make it stand out Local press immediately commenced coverage of the discovery of skeletal remains inside of a barrel at Lake Mead over the weekend of April 29, 2022. (Shawna Hollister/KLAS/@VegasIssues) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1652653923037-XIKJPD0HF9S4OVHFL58K/barrel27.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mafia's History of Barrel Murders - Make it stand out The murder of Benedetto Madonia and his disposal in a barrel in New York City garnered some of the first national attention to the emerging Mafia in the United States. The Morello Crime Family was believed responsible for the murder of Madonia. The Mafia and Black Hand groups were responsible for other “barrel murders” in the early years of the 20th century, including of Bertha Garlow after she stumbled across organized crime activities. (UCR Digital Newspaper Archive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1652654199908-WVCN49C4SSJH70BLRDU1/barrel29.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mafia's History of Barrel Murders - Make it stand out Bonanno Family capo Cesare Bonventre was known for his brutal efficiency. Bonventre made his way into New York City press coverage of Mafia violence during the 70’s and 80’s, including Bonventre’s involvement in the murder of acting Bonanno Family boss Carmine Galante, pictured in a famous photograph clenching a cigar between his teeth after being gunned down at a Brooklyn restaurant. Bonventre would meet his own violent end a few years after Galante’s murder, with Bonventre’s remains found in two barrels at a warehouse in New Jersey. (Wikipedia/NY Daily News/YouTube) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/5/7/mayhem-in-the-desert-interviewed-by-news-8 monthly 0.5 2022-05-08 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/5/1/skeleton-found-in-barrel-at-lake-mead-near-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1651465238849-IVY5C3N5QWO84ACEQ9VJ/lakemeadbarrel3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Skeleton Found in Barrel at Lake Mead Near Las Vegas - Make it stand out Local press immediately commenced coverage of the discovery of skeletal remains inside of a barrel at Lake Mead over the weekend of April 29, 2022. (Shawna Hollister/KLAS/@VegasIssues) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/4/29/mayhem-in-the-desert-at-crimecon-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1651218297270-LQCJFSL1YXH3GHC8UFCJ/crimecon.png Crime Bulletin - Mayhem in the Desert at CrimeCon 2022! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/4/9/how-many-bodies-did-johnny-blake-peterson-leave-in-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649548323583-R0Y553XDGAO8XOZW06OG/bryantpage2.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Kim Bryant’s body was found in the desert near the intersection of Charleston and Buffalo about a month after her disappearance. Hundreds turned out to remember the slain girl’s memory, including former Nevada Governor Mike O’Callaghan, a friend of the family. Kim was an active volunteer with the Special Olympics. Local media covered Bryant’s memorial service and remarks by former Governor O’Callaghan. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649552887789-GXE2F1QLTMZFXZQLZLLQ/peterson6.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Press conference announcing the identification of a suspect in the murder of Kim Bryant alongside a 1984 RJ article speculating that many of the recent unsolved murders of women in Las Vegas may have been committed by a serial killer, including the murders of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/KTNV/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649547060042-5Q0N90ASJK2NJOE8XP4T/bryantsolved8.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Mugshot of Johnny Blake Peterson, murderer of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson. Little information has been uncovered about Peterson so far, but police suspect he may have been responsible for up to five murders in the Las Vegas area during the late-70’s and 80’s. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649552593386-QBICXBHGYU67E408L134/peterson5.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Diana Hanson’s shocking murder garnered an initial large police response and press attention, but the case quickly went cold. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649548931444-5S33URFV6F6UVKJS7WG0/bryantsolved9.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Sketch of teenage suspect seen harassing girls at Western High School in the days leading up to the abduction of Kim Bryant, and mugshot of Johnny Blake Peterson - murderer of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649552709775-GVL5SGT47Z0UI857PT1E/peterson7.jpg Crime Bulletin - How Many Bodies Did Johnny Blake Peterson Leave in Las Vegas? - Make it stand out Classified ad run by Johnny Blake Peterson in February of 1990 advertising his contracting services. Also pictured is Peterson’s obituary from January of 1993 and a mugshot of Peterson. The plasterer and contractor never faced justice for the two murders he committed. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/4/2/10-years-since-brutal-vegas-double-hammer-murders monthly 0.5 2022-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648962961878-GFH1OV7QN2LNTE4TRZ57/hammermurder3.jpg Crime Bulletin - 10 Years Since Brutal Vegas Double Hammer Murders - Make it stand out Bryan Clay was convicted of the brutal double murders of a mother and child in 2012. Local press covered the crime that shocked the Vegas community, including Clay’s claims that he did not remember committing the murders. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/KSNV) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/3/27/a-spy-store-in-sin-city-and-a-missing-customer monthly 0.5 2022-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648433241719-PP30WK4T95HSRPPSN9KU/spystore2.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Killer at the Spy Store - Make it stand out The mysterious disappearance of Ginger Rios after she visited a spy store in Las Vegas ultimately lead to several other murders that occurred in the Southwest during the mid-90’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648434871073-H2SVW1CHF9852TB69YB3/sk12.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Killer at the Spy Store - Make it stand out Ginger Rios, pictured on the left, disappeared after visiting the Spy Craft store in Las Vegas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648961167247-LO21TFUDUQO19IRL8MCJ/spystore5.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Killer at the Spy Store - Make it stand out John Flowers a.k.a. Craig Jacobsen was a potential serial killer, with victims in both Nevada and Arizona. Press coverage of circumstantial evidence supporting Flowers/Jacobsen being a serial killer. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648961119157-P883AZWL0URBTDOBR7S9/spystore4.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Killer at the Spy Store - Make it stand out John Flowers received news coverage for his novel chain of “spy stores” in Nevada, Arizona, and California before Flower (a.k.a. Craig Jacobsen) became a suspect in multiple murders. The AP ran a story on Flowers’ spy store chain. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1648961092876-Z21TRBXOF7NMKU8YJVM6/spystore3.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Killer at the Spy Store - Make it stand out Ginger Rios was born and raised in Las Vegas before her untimely disappearance after visiting John Flowers’ Spy Craft store in Las Vegas. Local Vegas press covered the pain suffered by Rios’ family as a result of her murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/3/20/serial-killers-of-sin-city-part-2 monthly 0.5 2022-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647835838169-NTPHO5T0D4ZH6GE57LGG/serial9.jpg Crime Bulletin - Serial Killers of Sin City: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/3/13/woman-stabs-her-date-at-hotel-near-las-vegas-in-apparent-revenge-for-us-drone-strike monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647159808379-WR3QFIHBCTLFK6349Q9T/iranrevenge1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Woman Stabs Her Date at Hotel Near Las Vegas in Apparent Revenge for US Drone Strike - Make it stand out Suspect in the stabbing at the Suncoast Hotel in Henderson, Nevada on March 5, 2022. (AP/Henderson Police Department) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/2/26/serial-killer-john-wayne-gacy-once-worked-at-palm-mortuary-in-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2023-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645942823935-OHQUPJUN3E4LZBVKEIKV/gacyvegas2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Once Worked at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645943326320-JJYM7Z7938G1V6E6H8C1/gacy6.JPG Crime Bulletin - Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Once Worked at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas - Make it stand out Palm Mortuary, where John Wayne Gacy worked during his brief time living in Las Vegas. (www.sinisterisles.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645942792745-VLP2O9P2S6H0AEOLX6W7/gacyvegas3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Once Worked at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645939369847-X3KNFTU6BU4ECO8XN7SB/gacyvegas4.jpg Crime Bulletin - Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Once Worked at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas - Make it stand out Notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was known for entertaining children while dressed as a clown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645942850594-X4V2YAUQ6LG2YSDQ3234/gacyvegas1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Once Worked at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas - Make it stand out Source: https://d26oc3sg82pgk3.cloudfront.net/files/media/role/1164664/76a3f108-b5da-4b38-afbe-2889e2f873cf.pdf https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/2/21/final-tune-the-suspicious-death-of-a-jazz-musician-in-50s-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645494827957-B5C5V039E0U89INRZCJ0/wardell38.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out Jazz musician Wardell Gray died under suspicious circumstances on the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas. Some speculate Gray’s death was due to an accident while others theorize he was murdered. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/UCR - California Digital Newspaper Collection/Wardellgray.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645499717830-93FAO4MNA7KFXY9BI9XQ/wardell46.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out The Moulin Rouge was a popular draw for locals and celebrities alike, but the establishment closed after only about six months. The structure eventually succumbed to several fires over the years and was demolished. Some speculate Gray was murdered in a dispute over a gambling debt or that he was the victim of a racially motivated murder. Though the Moulin Rouge was a step toward equality, white supremacist attitudes were still a potent force in 1950’s Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645495225659-FP4PDYXC7UCSX9ZN6PNC/wardell39.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out The Moulin Rouge was the first integrated hotel and casino in Las Vegas, with its opening garnering national attention. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645495664856-33L8P5X0906ZPSL9866Z/wardell40.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out Wardell Gray made his mark as a talented saxophonist, playing with the likes of Benny Goodman and the Count Basie Orchestra. (Wardellgray.com/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645499159652-BBVVD11QQTZR0KYB957H/wardell44.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out The death of Wardell Gray stole some of the local press attention from the grand opening of the Moulin Rouge. An article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal from shortly after Gray’s death noted questions surrounding the musician’s demise. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1645497422377-KD5AFW8XLVDI7B3RIKNU/wardell43.jpg Crime Bulletin - Final Tune: The Suspicious Death of a Jazz Musician in 50's Vegas - Make it stand out Contemporary news coverage of Wardell Gray’s suspicious death in 1955. Gray’s body was located on the Boulderado Ranch, also known as Kiel Ranch. (UNLV Digital Collection/UCR - California Digital Newspaper Collection) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/1/23/who-was-the-mysterious-al-prowling-north-las-vegas-bars-in-1979 monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642979350270-83ZE53XQMT4J4QDB8L3J/jenkins46.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out Police sought leads from press publicity after linking the murders of Griffith and Jenkins. Sheila Griffith had just started a job as a cocktail waitress at Caesar’s Palace about a month before she went missing, and Linda Jenkins was described as a dependable employee at a downtown clothing store with two young children. Above is an aerial photo of the Silver Nugget during the 1970’s at the time Sheila Griffith went missing from the establishment. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642935303790-X09VHOB1EM8V4NMDNBZJ/jenkins34.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out Edward Allen See, a little-known serial killer that happened to make his way through Las Vegas in September of 1979, was convicted of the murders of Sheila Griffith and Johnsie Bame after his arrest for robbery in North Carolina. The only photo we could locate of See was of him in his old age while imprisoned in Nevada. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/NVDOC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642936893570-HGPFZ23MKJ0YCGNWXNVF/jenkins40.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out Aerial shot of North Las Vegas in the late 70’s near the time that Sheila Griffith, Linda Jenkins, and Johnsie Bame were murdered after disappearing from area bars and casinos. (UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642936133770-TBJL2FTOA8J8JUF4QYW4/jenkins37.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out Edward Allen See and another inmate took a gospel singing group hostage in an effort to escape the Nevada State Prison. The futile effort resulted in no injuries and only scant press coverage. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642935212650-84VJ4WZLNNGS9L5CDWUA/jenkins33.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out A man identified by witnesses only as “Al” left with Linda Jenkins from the Sky Club bar in North Las Vegas. Jenkins’ body would later be found in the desert outside of Las Vegas. Local press distributed a sketch of “Al” created by Metro. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642934029701-R6K1B230XBEQX2U1FUDW/jenkins32.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out Several women disappeared from bars - including one located inside of the Silver Nugget Casino - in North Las Vegas during the fall of 1979. Local press covered the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearances of Sheila Griffith and Linda Jenkins. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1642971400463-RBSLK302O88CLDRU9OTV/jenkins41.jpg Crime Bulletin - A Murderer Known Only as "Al" Prowled North Las Vegas Bars in 1979 - Make it stand out The murder of Linda Jenkins remains officially unsolved, though Edward Allen See appears to be the most likely suspect. The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a piece in 1984 detailing unsolved local homicides that police believe may be linked to serial killers. Jenkins’ case was one of those noted by Metro Lt. John Collins as likely being committed by a serial killer. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2022/1/7/motive-still-a-mystery-55-years-after-bombing-of-downtown-vegas-motel monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641542814648-HQHEPLNN1H9L937QNG59/orbitinn29.jpg Crime Bulletin - Motive Still a Mystery 55 Years After Bombing of Downtown Vegas Motel - Make it stand out Photos of the aftermath of the Orbit Inn bombing as covered in the local Las Vegas press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641542252348-6PM9LQ2X5CIZX7GWDDLE/orbitinn5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Motive Still a Mystery 55 Years After Bombing of Downtown Vegas Motel - Make it stand out News 3 conducted a retrospective look at the Orbit Inn bombing, including this image highlighting the aftermath of the attack. (KSLV) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/12/31/gangs-of-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641004612559-5SZAO1U6YHE1K8P712QT/gang43.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Las Vegas press covered the rise in violence from white supremacist skinhead gangs throughout the late-80’s and into the 90’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641008421720-LX6AODZOAEIHV12BDHH8/gang46.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Local press coverage of the feud between the Pinoy Boys and the Reet Boyz, as well as the activities of the Piru Bloods during the late-80’s. And, unsurprisingly, we have yet another Las Vegas Review-Journal infographic on gang activity in Vegas during the late-80’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641006782917-Q2BFWXGAXGEHKEATWUC5/gang44.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Fatal shootings near Bonanza High School and at Eldorado High School in 1989 and 1990 respectively left three young people dead and sparked a flurry of coverage about local gangs in the press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1640944648303-NAPH2XCH9OBLOTHXOXCZ/school12.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Explore the gangs of 1980’s and 90’s Las Vegas…according to this infographic from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641009380033-2MH0JSQBYCIWPBZ03DF4/gang47.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Members of the 18th Street Gang were linked by police to the slayings of Alex Arroyo and John Episioco, both 13-years-old. Local press in Vegas covered the manhunt for a member of the Lil Locos in relation to the murder of a 16-year-old student from Bonanza High School. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1641007541372-UOIP2VP72NXKAWUK7FOI/gang45.jpg Crime Bulletin - Gangs of Las Vegas - Make it stand out More infographics from the 1980’s featured in the Las Vegas Review-Journal purporting to detail the workings of local street gangs along with coverage of gang activities around the Vegas Valley. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/12/31/someone-dropped-off-a-box-with-a-skull-at-a-vegas-police-station-in-1972 monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1640955141003-9WJG3VEBJOPO24BOO9OK/headbox.jpg Crime Bulletin - Someone Dropped Off a Box With A Skull Inside at a Vegas Police Station in 1972 - Make it stand out The local press only offered a glancing mention of this bizarre story. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/12/12/1979-murder-of-kim-bryant-solved monthly 0.5 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1639306893761-B1DDMZSXX8MAHHOPY6PA/bryantsolved9.jpg Crime Bulletin - 1979 Murder of Kim Bryant Solved - Make it stand out Sketch of teenage suspect seen harassing girls at Western High School in the days leading up to the abduction of Kim Bryant, and mugshot of Johnny Blake Peterson - murderer of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1639306440362-PHIJ1L82TAE5UDS80EUI/bryantsolved2.JPG Crime Bulletin - 1979 Murder of Kim Bryant Solved - Make it stand out Press conference announcing the identification of a suspect in the murder of Kim Bryant. (KTNV/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1639307353264-S3RF1UXZI1X5NX8R81BP/bryantsolved1.JPG Crime Bulletin - 1979 Murder of Kim Bryant Solved - Make it stand out The site where Kim Bryant disappeared on January 26, 1979. This building at 115 N. Decatur Boulevard was a Dairy Queen at that time. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1639307229376-3BL3MZSLJ0IXJFB2618K/bryantsolved5.PNG Crime Bulletin - 1979 Murder of Kim Bryant Solved - Make it stand out Local press coverage of police efforts to solve the murder of Diana Hanson. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/11/11/the-topless-club-with-a-headless-owner monthly 0.5 2023-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636623067569-87V38ZN9U7IASAC1XL11/albanese24.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Topless Club with a Headless Owner - Make it stand out Albanese’s battles with the Las Vegas City Council and licensing authorities were a frequent feature of local press coverage from shortly after his arrival to the city. Citations for serving alcohol to minors and permitting lewd acts from his days operating topless bars in California caused city officials pause when it came to licensing Albanese. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636624084997-WKR81OUAXAHFQYI6DTXJ/albanese333.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Topless Club with a Headless Owner - Make it stand out The curt caption in the Las Vegas-Review Journal reporting on the head of Las Vegas strip club owner Tony Albanese being discovered in the desert. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636623024990-D10JGV48Q5JRN03O4PUQ/albanese26.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Topless Club with a Headless Owner - Make it stand out Press reports indicate the Albanese murder may have been related to a war between the New York crime families and the Chicago Outfit for control over adult entertainment establishments in Southern California and Las Vegas. Vito de Filippo, a capo with the Bonnano Family, was the alleged secret owner of the Crazy Horse Saloon, located in the shopping center owned by Albanese. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636624060949-7UXMCGGQWOHL1KO544A2/albanese222.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Topless Club with a Headless Owner - Make it stand out Local press covered the regulatory battles that plagued the Crazy Horse Too from the inception of the establishment. The Las Vegas City Council refused to approve Albanese’s efforts to change the name of Billy Jo’s the Power Co. to Billy Jo’s Crazy Horse Too. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636623048822-NKZRDJEYCRXLVTWF0WYT/albanese25.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Topless Club with a Headless Owner - Make it stand out The sudden disappearance of Albanese and subsequent gruesome discovery of his remains in 1981 provided the local press with plenty of fodder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/11/8/suspicious-fire-at-the-tiger-room monthly 0.5 2021-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636437004573-5H0OC3KMVWCBGBQYVKV5/tigerroom3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Suspicious Fire at the Tiger Room - Make it stand out Local press coverage of the blazes that broke out in the early morning hours of February 22, 1984. The Tiger Room, a downtown topless bar, and the offices of architect Dennis E. Rusk located on South Eastern Avenue were destroyed in what investigators deemed “suspicious” fires. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636436946945-W4SJOOX8FGBV0SYUNDT5/tigerroom5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Suspicious Fire at the Tiger Room - Make it stand out A suspicious fire destroyed a short-lived downtown Vegas topless bar in 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1636436698363-JO1GRWQ3XYLRXDV881QW/tigerroom2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Suspicious Fire at the Tiger Room - Make it stand out Leonard Shapiro did not reopen the Tiger Room after the bar was destroyed. Shapiro had run into legal difficulties in 1979 during his time running the Crazy Horse topless bar for permitting lewd acts and serving alcohol to minors. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/10/29/occupational-hazards-of-organized-crime monthly 0.5 2021-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1635547053609-1NRNC00EUBQO2O8LPASM/farula4.jpg Crime Bulletin - Occupational Hazards of Organized Crime - Make it stand out Local press in Las Vegas covered the initially unsolved murder of mob figure Jerome Farula in May of 1981, as well as the subsequent trial of Joe Alario for the murder in 1983. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/10/12/investigators-still-dont-know-why-all-four-911-hijackers-that-served-as-pilots-during-the-attack-had-six-meetings-in-las-vegas-between-may-and-august-of-2001 monthly 0.5 2021-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1634099101656-EXNBDH3V5FESL0QT9K7A/911.jpg Crime Bulletin - Investigators Still Don't Know Why All Four 9/11 Hijackers That Served as Pilots During the Attack Had six Meetings in Las Vegas Between May and August of 2001. - Make it stand out Local news covered the still-unknown connections between the 9/11 hijackers and Las Vegas shortly after the attack. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/8/25/billy-lee-chadd-inside-a-vegas-serial-killers-mind monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629957190842-CU19H24E1JU2S4TS7FXT/chadd28.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Billy Lee Chadd committed two murders in San Diego during the 1970’s. (San Diego Business Journal) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956652880-YM19MKDGVUWG17MIXLL7/chadd14.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Chadd was sentenced to death for the murders he committed in California. However, his conviction was overturned and Chadd was ultimately sentenced to life without parole. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629957704797-RYL2BDCO29E5IDDKAQ68/chadd29.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956914857-J3UIVNV3Y99JL0SXGSKX/chadd26.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Billy Lee Chadd met Delmar Bright along Fremont Street on a hot August day in 1975. (UNLV Digital Collections, Dennis McBride Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956508822-910NTA8N4IHP4NK3A80Z/chadd18.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Local Las Vegas press gave brief coverage to the 1975 murder of Delmar Bright, a porter at the Fremont Hotel. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956733535-RHUJ64AS5Q0QHP2B8FC8/chadd19.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Billy Lee Chadd was happy to detail his thoughts and motives regarding his crimes. Chadd wrote an 84-page manuscript about his life and crimes called Dark Secrets. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956595060-0RXMJH1JDW0SH2LGFD6U/chadd17.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Serial killer Wayne D. Horton - a longtime resident of Las Vegas - was initially charged in the murder of Delmar Bright before the arrest of Chadd. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1629956693456-NZGE3MW757FXNPBD1JL0/chadd15.jpg Crime Bulletin - Billy Lee Chadd: Inside the mind of a Vegas Serial Killer - Make it stand out Local press expended more coverage on the arrest and trial of Chadd than on the murder of Delmar Bright. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/6/27/embers-of-the-sagebrush-rebellion monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845885512-T9E0VGXX0WHU8WQMVPMD/sage25.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Local press coverage of a failed bombing of the Reno IRS offices in 1995. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845825860-4B6EXB80F13RKWGK904M/sage23.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Press coverage and footage of the aftermath of the bombing of the Forest Service offices in Carson City. (AP/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845798949-UBY9QKJJX2ECDB7UF4K5/sage22.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Coverage in the Nevada press at the time of the 1993 bombing of the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Reno. (AP/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845842467-MFTN4KBXIN55Y90GHVT1/sage24.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Forest Service ranger Guy Pence was targeted in two bomb attacks in 1995. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845862195-27JBP1BQIC484G4KV7G7/sage29.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out The initial “Sagebrush Rebellion” was sparked in the 1970’s over disputes regarding federal land management policies in Western States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624845912101-PHIPPOXFBA1P1C9IMOSP/sage30.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Some commentators and researchers argue we are currently in the midst of a third phase of the Sagebrush Rebellion that involves more direct confrontation with federal authorities. Clockwise from top left: Standoff between armed supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy and BLM agents outside of Las Vegas; BLM managed lands in Nevada; a modern supporter of the Sagebrush Rebellion; supporters of Cliven Bundy protesting outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1624842498826-V9XESDZ8UOEXV3XPAGUU/sage10.jpg Crime Bulletin - Embers of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Make it stand out Aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by antigovernment extremists. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/6/13/unfriendly-skies-questions-surround-deadly-air-rage-incident monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1623623638471-CDG6BKEKHUXCWTSJBU5N/southwest3.jpg Crime Bulletin - Unfriendly Skies: Questions Surround Deadly Air Rage Incident - Make it stand out Jonathan Burton, the sole fatality on Southwest Airlines Flight 1763. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1623617707127-O6U9FLF1NFHNQ1KLYHZS/southwest1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Unfriendly Skies: Questions Surround Deadly Air Rage Incident - Make it stand out The same type of plane as Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 landing at McCarran International Airport. (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1623623745276-0NWUUHCIA7L5E5RVH84L/southwest4.jpg Crime Bulletin - Unfriendly Skies: Questions Surround Deadly Air Rage Incident - Make it stand out Excerpt from a Salt Lake City Police Department report on the death of Jonathan Burton. (TheSmokingGun.com) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/6/6/serial-killers-of-sin-city-americas-most-prolific-killer-strikes-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/4/29/governors-behaving-badly-denver-dickerson monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1619930531941-LFJKIF5PET04SANCPJGQ/dickerson20.jpg Crime Bulletin - Governors Behaving Badly: Denver Dickerson and Illegal Fight Films Denver Dickerson’s son, George, went on to become District of Attorney of Clark County in the 1950’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1619929568756-3IZLV3BVNCJ177DIMG76/dickerson19.jpg Crime Bulletin - Governors Behaving Badly: Denver Dickerson and Illegal Fight Films Gee Jon was the first person put to death in a gas chamber at the Nevada State Prison in 1924. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1619923097503-QHICZ4BWEAVHV5P6S1AI/dickerson10.jpg Crime Bulletin - Governors Behaving Badly: Denver Dickerson and Illegal Fight Films Denver Dickerson’s run in with federal authorities made news back in Nevada. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1619845547671-YP85OLT9U14PSURN87L0/Dickerson1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Governors Behaving Badly: Denver Dickerson and Illegal Fight Films Nevada Governor Denver Dickerson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1619845512586-KY8FN4ZVJJQ7WCXL8P5D/dickerson2.jpg Crime Bulletin - Governors Behaving Badly: Denver Dickerson and Illegal Fight Films The “Fight of the Century” occurred in Reno in 1910 between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. Nevada Governor Denver Dickerson gained national attention for his promise that Nevada would see no outbreaks of violence regardless of the winner. Dickerson later faced federal charges after leaving office for illegally transporting fight films across State lines. (Wikipedia) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/3/7/deadly-custody-case-murder-of-yolanda-brown-remains-unsolved-over-20-years-later monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615444090373-EFXDX6KZQB4QJABBA8OW/yolanda+8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later Hearing minutes after Alexander Green failed to follow a court order for the return of a child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615182014817-E5PW8XWQJ5BG1K237S72/yolanda+15.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615618106153-26ARVZVI5XTAISIGMPVO/yolanda+13.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615182298206-GRA152TRTQFSOFBACNR8/yolanda19.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later Photo of Yolanda Brown on Metro’s cold case site. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615444130320-U2A1DL3L5IXLXS88E4A0/yolanda+5.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later Hearing minutes noting Alexander Green was a prime suspect in Yolanda Brown’s murder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615181894939-TGB0STBWPGSS2BKUG9J8/yolanda+11.PNG Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later Local press had only minimal coverage of Yolanda Brown’s disappearance and murder. This article was one of only three located in the Las Vegas-Review Journal archives. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615444751846-SJN80ONGZMFILGFNXEIT/yolanda20.png Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615618182551-5YQ8W0O61S1WIJRDE3SY/yolanda+14.jpg Crime Bulletin - Deadly Custody Case: Murder of Yolanda Brown Remains Unsolved Over 20 Years Later Yolanda Brown went missing after ending her shift at the Las Vegas Hilton. (LVMPD) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/2/28/labor-wars-of-70s-vegas monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1614572109375-AC7BRANZEHZ4AQA40KXJ/bramlet14.jpg Crime Bulletin - Always Pay Your Hitman The Bramlet disappearance captivated the local and national press for several weeks. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1614572005400-FLH3HBRS4HZR6OWFMUYX/bramlet8.jpg Crime Bulletin - Always Pay Your Hitman The bombers engaged in a dangerous escalation that ultimately failed in January of 1977. The inability to locate suspects in the attacks was a focus of press accounts after the double bombing attempt. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1614571968057-01Y60BNN3VYGFEFOYR3F/bramlet12.jpg Crime Bulletin - Always Pay Your Hitman Another gourmet restaurant, David’s Place, was struck by a bomb just a month after the Alpine Village Inn attack. Local press closely followed developments in the bombing investigation. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1614571937200-N8M8P1XAR141XU5HFOU1/bramlet11.jpg Crime Bulletin - Always Pay Your Hitman Two bombs placed on the roof of the Alpine Village Inn restaurant on December 20, 1975, jeopardized the lives of nearly 400 patrons and employees. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1614571853371-U9UEA6G6HDB1ZSAA4QML/bramlet1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Always Pay Your Hitman Al Bramlet, head of the powerful Culinary Union in Las Vegas, was abducted from McCarran Airport in 1977. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/1/27/blood-on-the-roller-rink monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1611814764852-6M31H6GB9EF8V30VI6A1/Crystalpalace4.PNG Crime Bulletin - Blood on the Roller Rink Quote from police investigating a 1988 gang-related multiple shooting at the Crystal Palace on North Rancho. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1611814843450-1CV5365TEE63UXXWOKIL/crystalpalace23.png Crime Bulletin - Blood on the Roller Rink The families of victim Shawn Irvin and shooter James Menko dueled in the press over responsibility for the deadly shooting in the parking lot of the Crystal Palace. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1611814699048-FM8SWPAPAJM09VZCODVP/crystalpalace22.jpg Crime Bulletin - Blood on the Roller Rink Local press featured routine human interest stories about the Crystal Palace throughout the 80’s and 90’s. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1611814924185-UOISIOTQDD1WMXLQN3KZ/crystalpalace24.jpg Crime Bulletin - Blood on the Roller Rink Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was connected to a shooting at the Crystal Palace on Boulder Highway in 2009. Several years later, Mayweather announced his intention to purchase that same Crystal Palace location. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1611814624066-9H0QYGZE1EUVGPDA4I2C/crystalpalace1.jpg Crime Bulletin - Blood on the Roller Rink The Crystal Palace Skating Center on Boulder Highway was recently purchased by a Las Vegas local with connections to a shooting at the skating rink. (Berkshire Hathaway Home Services) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/1/2/trafficking-and-murder-under-the-desert-sun monthly 0.5 2021-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609660146251-FJGOL509MRUXCG1WW4JS/image-asset.jpeg Crime Bulletin - Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun One of the few articles in the local press about the triple homicide. Next to the article is an ad for an area strip club, demonstrating the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for the sale of sex in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609659999048-EXD1STQ0ZOP7PV5RBI39/traffick11.png Crime Bulletin - Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun The discovery of the bodies of three women in the desert outside of Las Vegas in 1996 received barely any coverage in the local press. Police speculated the three victims may have been associated with massage parlors serving as fronts for illicit prostitution. (Google Maps; Las Vegas-Clark County Library District). https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2021/1/2/the-mysterious-cold-war-murder-of-a-las-vegas-couple monthly 0.5 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609653539999-LW9JVCJFU65EXMZPVKOT/rabinowitshhomicide_8157755-jack-rabinowitsch_xenia-rabinowitsch.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple Xenia and Jack Rabinowitsch had met as children in their native Latvia and married after emigrating from the USSR to the US. (LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609653719041-FOE56VMGRE58HCIKLPP3/rabinowitsh1.PNG Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple The site of the Rabinowitsh murders on La Casita Avenue. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609653657261-2ZM3RCQ9VZ5KUWEWE8MP/rabin7.PNG Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple The Rabinowitsch slayings would crop up from time to time in the local Las Vegas press, but without generating any additional leads in the investigation. This 1996 column by well-known Las Vegas journalist John L. Smith recounted some of the more mysterious aspects of the crime, as well as the potential connection to the KGB. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609653678846-ZM4QMN72SOQVDB3K208X/rabinowitsch4.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple Protesters in the United States advocating against the Soviet Union’s treatment of its Jewish citizens, including the mass denial of the ability of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. (American Jewish Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609653579322-TZLYO898U72FTVNRVAYI/rabinowitsh5.PNG Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple The Rabinowitsch murders were shrouded in mystery. The couple were deceased for approximately 35 hours before being discovered by their maid. Local press reports of the slayings noted the Rabinowitsh’s four dogs had been barking incessantly day and night between June 24 - June 25, 1981. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1609651595253-97GHU9REKCAPX7V5RF74/rabinowitsh3.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Mysterious Cold War Murder of a Las Vegas Couple The unsolved 1981 murders of Jack and Xenia Rabinowitsch appeared to be the work of professional hitmen that left behind little evidence for investigators. Investigators came to believe that the double homicide could have links to the Soviet KGB. Police and local organizations offered a reward in an effort to generate leads in the case. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2020/11/28/no-leads-in-tragic-1985-murder-of-a-toddler-in-naked-city monthly 0.5 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606560072514-2HA37KWA0J1395TFSHFS/NakedCity6.jpg Crime Bulletin - No Leads in Tragic 1985 Murder of a Toddler in Naked City Photo of 3-year-old Arthur Williams, Jr., who was murdered outside of his apartment complex in the Naked City neighborhood of Las Vegas in 1985. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606560686127-5Y9HAQA36COU1GEQ0W2C/NakedCity.jpg Crime Bulletin - No Leads in Tragic 1985 Murder of a Toddler in Naked City Photograph of the Naked City neighborhood in 2019. (Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606560180869-MUHTKWOMH1ST8OC4TUMI/NakedCity4.jpg Crime Bulletin - No Leads in Tragic 1985 Murder of a Toddler in Naked City Local press coverage of the site of the Williams murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606560532479-SPTXWUSN1YLYWYTHK054/nakedcity10.jpg Crime Bulletin - No Leads in Tragic 1985 Murder of a Toddler in Naked City The investigation into the Williams murder was extensively covered by the local Las Vegas press, including in part by well-known Nevada journalist Jon Ralston (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2020/11/27/the-naked-city-in-the-heart-of-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2022-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606525215937-MGEXB0H6ACGNM6WLG7OZ/NakedCity2.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Naked City in the Heart of Las Vegas The Las Vegas press covered the detrimental impact Metro’s crackdown on “Marielitos” in the Naked City area had on businesses owned by members of the local Cuban immigrant community. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606528799948-E7TOA0HSW98SK8HI07FR/NakedCity4.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Naked City in the Heart of Las Vegas The unsolved 1985 murder of 3-year-old Arthur Williams, Jr. in the front yard of his Naked City apartment complex shook the Las Vegas community. The local press extensively covered the crime and efforts to locate a suspect. This article on the murder was authored by well-known Nevada journalist Jon Ralston. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606520742147-PRYE65Y2KVGX634OLEOI/NakedCity.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Naked City in the Heart of Las Vegas A view of the Naked City from Sahara Avenue. (Photo by Anthony T. Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1606528180248-R1GMHR8HKY127JTHO3NP/NakedCity3.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Naked City in the Heart of Las Vegas Local press covered the failure of business and political leaders to carry through on promises to revitalize the Naked City neighborhood in this 1996 article. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2020/10/24/the-unsolved-1994-murder-of-a-young-trick-or-treater-in-north-las-vegas-still-haunts-the-community monthly 0.5 2020-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1603578608154-KFFFXR70BCFRVV77FAYS/Bagley+murder.jpg Crime Bulletin - The Unsolved Murder of a Young Trick-or-Treater in North Las Vegas Still Haunts the Community 7-year-old Tony Bagley of North Las Vegas was murdered on Halloween night in 1994. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2020/10/19/1982-murder-of-oil-executive-bert-henry-mcmahon-remains-unsolved monthly 0.5 2020-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1603163826467-C91QCPZHD5U816ZQSVSA/McMahon.jpeg Crime Bulletin - 1982 Murder of Oil Executive Bert Henry McMahon Remains Unsolved Photo of Bert Henry McMahon. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1603163140512-C8PLR5BZUHECQSIAHYE7/mcmahon3.jpeg Crime Bulletin - 1982 Murder of Oil Executive Bert Henry McMahon Remains Unsolved Local Las Vegas press only ran a few articles on the McMahon murder. This article from the year following the murder sought tips as to suspects or a motive. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2020/3/3/mystery-surrounding-the-murder-of-bugsy-siegel monthly 0.5 2020-03-04 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/11/10/1984-article-linked-up-to-24-unsolved-murders-in-vegas-to-serial-killers monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/10/19/new-confessions-released-regarding-vegas-serial-murder monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1571485715600-KN9MC5FG18DA3PCENFIN/serial4.jpg Crime Bulletin - New Confessions Released Regarding Vegas Serial Murder https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/10/19/vegas-black-widow-killer-to-be-paroled monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/10/13/caring-to-death monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/10/6/ghost-towns-of-southern-nevada monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crimebulletin/2019/10/6/more-serial-killers-out-there-than-we-think monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/new-page daily 0.75 2018-07-29 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/deadpool daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558938999215-E1I58BTU4NR6OASG4ATX/deadpool10.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Sunrise Hospital, circa 1979, as the medical center appeared at the time of the Jani Adams “Angel of Death” charges. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558939720250-N8SJQTB546I7DNSQQYSS/deadpool9.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal March 13, 1980 headline of the Review Journal regarding the investigation that led to the indictment of Jani Adams. The RJ would go on to face scorn for its rush to judgment in the Adams case. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940228204-EANMTF7ALGM6D0U93KMZ/hospitalmiller1.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal District Attorney Bob Miller, prosecutor of Jani Adams and 26th governor of Nevada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940582799-FMSC01V9GEH6VON39DOS/deadpool3.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Jani Adams consults with her Las Vegas counsel after facing charges of murdering her patients. The Review Journal covered the Jani Adams legal proceedings after printing articles that led to public outrage over an alleged “Death Angel” at a local hospital. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940136969-157Y66GQRZMAK311360P/deadpool5.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Jani Adams experienced further legal difficulties after the spurious “Angel of Death” charges were dismissed. The local press covered these later charges with less sensationalism than the “Angel of Death” headlines. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940280757-2UED6OFWFF021F0OBGTO/deadpool6.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal The Las Vegas Review Journal assumed a defensive posture after the Jani Adams indictment was dismissed. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940996963-ORE1RDOCL7ZJPIXVX20N/deadpool11.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Headlines announcing the sensational details of the “Death Angel” investigation, which was often the focus of the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558941626150-8FMPJVTNTPJ0HX6PCUUF/deadpool2.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Jani Adams heeded the advice of her lawyers and stayed quiet when being interrogated by police after gossip led to allegations she was an “Angel of Death.” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558937798009-7D2GJ2B06PEJTOGLQ37B/deadpool7.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Nurse Jani Adams denies her role as an “Angel of Death” that murdered patients under her care. Pictured to the left is her attorney, Marvin Belli, and behind her is boyfriend, Bernard Deters. A local paper, the Review Journal, ran with the most sensational aspects of the “Angel of Death” story. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558941465122-CJ17N155ZWM4TIZIWA3W/deadpool12.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal The “Angel of Death” case that was sparked in part by RJ reporting was quickly the subject of legal proceedings challenging the flimsy basis for the charges against Adams. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558940458248-G8SPIASIO4M5PY7R4F3V/image-asset.jpeg Hospital Deadpool Scandal Judge Wendell dismissed all charges for lack of sufficient evidence presented by the prosecution. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558939912757-1O9125B98QUHMIKTLHAZ/hospital14.jpg Hospital Deadpool Scandal The Jani Adams story made national news. (AP) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/chaingang daily 0.75 2019-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1549858574727-IXF4HJ1J8RNZQ24D6H44/chaingangs1.jpg Chain Gangs Article quoting Las Vegas city officials regarding reviving the chain gang system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1549858507039-M0NZY2FAKR39WS4OAT7L/IMG_8498.PNG Chain Gangs Las Vegas Age article, circa 1910 (UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1549853215040-OQYW56Z49CIPUJZ38Q9S/IMG_8491.PNG Chain Gangs Article from Las Vegas Age, circa 1907 (UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1549853056007-6F6I0N4T456UOB2YKDWA/chaingangs2.jpg Chain Gangs Photo of a chain gang in Oakland, California working on a road project, circa 1910. Nevada and California made common use of chain gangs to deter “hobos” and “tramps” from staying within their jurisdictions for too long. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/bramlet daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956801235-V2UEZG5ITUNXNP545HLH/bramlet24.jpg Restaurant Wars The Culinary Union’s parent organization entered into a federal consent decree to provide assurances that the union had moved beyond the corrupt days of Bramlet and Schmoutey. Well-known commentators on local politics weighed in on the move. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561955908493-DW7LHNZBWH9GBATSWPHP/bramlet11.jpg Restaurant Wars Two bombs placed on the roof of the Alpine Village Inn restaurant on December 20, 1975, jeopardized the lives of nearly 400 patrons and employees. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561955951368-2IGJCNZOPDICXLII6X5T/bramlet12.jpg Restaurant Wars Another gourmet restaurant, David’s Place, was struck by a bomb just a month after the Alpine Village Inn attack. Local press closely followed developments in the bombing investigation. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561957467278-B85658JOHSOO2SWTMR6O/bramlet29.jpg Restaurant Wars McCarran International Airport, circa 1970’s, when Al Bramlet was abducted after departing from a flight. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956826722-R2KDE3CCECFLDFZ3Y7TX/image-asset.jpeg Restaurant Wars Local 226 building near downtown Las Vegas today. (Yelp.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956049954-PNNJMTZCXCPCA7C5L5ME/bramlet8.jpg Restaurant Wars The bombers engaged in a dangerous escalation that ultimately failed in January of 1977. The inability to locate suspects in the attacks was a focus of press accounts after the double bombing attempt. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956374655-IG53IVC80SY567Q90TG6/bramlet27.jpg Restaurant Wars The father-son hitman team behind the restaurant bombings, Tom and Gramby Hanley. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956772729-F5AJ89O0OT91X99NOPHZ/bramlet22.jpg Restaurant Wars The federal judge presiding over Culinary Union boss Schmoutey’s trial was later impeached and removed from the bench for tax evasion. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561955767837-4D31FSBZLQFVLULGOOJ4/bramlet20.jpg Restaurant Wars Scenes from the 1976 strike led by Bramlet’s Culinary Union Local 226 that shut down the Strip for two weeks as covered by the local press. Bramlet was known for cruising by the picket lines in his silver Cadillac. Police frequently clashed with picketers during the strike. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District for newspaper images, Las Vegas Historical Society for images of police in front of Caesar’s sign) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561955388749-FTU3KC0U5JEJJQ8C4MG5/bramlet25.jpg Restaurant Wars Headlines after a series of bombings at restaurants across Las Vegas from 1975-77. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956571929-ZVI9N7OIN5C69VHN9Q5N/bramlet19.jpg Restaurant Wars Bramlet’s body was found in a shallow grave in the desert outside of Las Vegas. The Bramlet case garnered significant media attention in large part because of the recent unsolved disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956534307-3M313AHAGMRGAA84GNRN/bramlet14.jpg Restaurant Wars The Bramlet disappearance captivated the local and national press for several weeks. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561955662306-I3722W8N585BOQLTUE89/bramlet26.jpg Restaurant Wars Al Bramlet became a pillar of the Las Vegas community as head of the powerful Culinary Union Local 226. As seen in this advertisement, Bramlet was at the center of Las Vegas civic life. (Las Vegas Sun). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1561956687343-4A8JMCF1S0KMY0SRRESY/bramlet18.jpg Restaurant Wars Bramlet’s successor as head of the Culinary Union local in Las Vegas was tried for the restaurant bombings, but he was ultimately acquitted by federal judge Harry Claiborne. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/forgottenshooting daily 0.75 2018-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533463245716-F85LV9DATAXO0YZDITCH/vegasshooting.jpg The Forgotten Vegas Mass Shooting Zane Floyd stalking employees during the mass shooting at an Albertson’s supermarket on June 14, 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533463638786-8Q4J5G0UTAGUWILXAOPP/vegasshooting2.jpg The Forgotten Vegas Mass Shooting Clockwise: Zane Floyd at the time of the mass shooting; Zane Floyd current photo as he sits on Nevada’s death row, courtesy of NV Dept. of Corrections; Clark County District Attorney David Roger with the murder weapon during Floyd’s trial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1543802461339-SD8AK1MSOS8IRZV0BYDT/zaneshooting.jpg The Forgotten Vegas Mass Shooting Interior of the Albertson’s on Sahara and Valley View after the mass shooting - now a Food-4-Less supermarket. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/new-page-86 daily 0.75 2018-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533509903537-5D4MLI4H9SMGIIVM9HHP/moulinrouge2.jpg Segregated Justice https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/hilton daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574584061411-PZ73HAW5AR971FNODPSZ/hilton.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy The deadly blaze at the Las Vegas Hilton captured national attention, particularly since the tragedy occurred only a few months after a fire at the Las Vegas MGM Grand killed dozens. (San Francisco Chronicle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1575091788237-RGE5QZDB11AD4BRE2S59/hilton7.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Local news provided intense coverage of hero-turned-suspect Philip Cline, including his troubled background while growing up in California. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574581920202-M2MIKE2J8TKYMWLWUNVH/hilton27.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy The Las Vegas Hilton gained popularity for its expansive size, proximity to the Las Vegas Convention Center, and for featuring headliners like Elvis and B.B. King. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574581641202-DRTQQ2VYP85OJUANN0ZD/hilton3.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Fire at the Las Vegas Hilton, night of February 10, 1981. Smoke from the flames in the darkened East Tower of the hotel swirl around the glowing Hilton sign. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574583729035-HSU1FXQQMT85DHQHUZUY/hilton29.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy (Clockwise from top left) East Tower elevator lobbies before the fire, lined with carpeted walls and ceiling that helped fuel the blaze; two images of the East Tower elevator lobbies after the fire with the windows shattered from the intense heat, which allowed the fire to ascend elevator lobby by elevator lobby to the Hilton’s rooftop; photo of soot-covered guest bedroom in the East Tower. (NFPA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574583962661-6U35N4TK5R7C2RIUDK7U/hilton13.PNG No One Suspects the Busboy Image of the Las Vegas Hilton in the days following the 1981 fire. The fire ascended from elevator lobby to elevator lobby along the East Tower, fueled by flammable furnishings. (NFPA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574585977118-NJPU3DMW22NQ5NMDJPTV/hilton30.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Cline when arrested in 1981 and Cline today while incarcerated at Nevada State Prison. (Nevada Department of Corrections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574585700432-PU5ROO00D0WC9HY52LK2/hilton4.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Philip Cline upon learning of his conviction on eight counts of murder and arson. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574583233714-86FMH552HT08YYLT9406/hilton28.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Scenes from the night of the 1981 fire at the Las Vegas Hilton. The fire consumed floors 8 through 30 of the East Tower of the building. Numerous bystanders and press photographers captured moments from the catastrophe. (Clockwise from top left) Distant image of the Hilton blaze after the fire darkened the East Tower of the building; Upward view of the fire damage after the blaze was extinguished; First responders wheeling away a victim of the fire on a gurney; View of the fire from the side of the Hilton. (NFPA, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1575091550870-GX45Y032LOTT1U4JKFDZ/hilton38.PNG No One Suspects the Busboy Article noting the doctors that performed the autopsies after the Hilton blaze determined one victim died from “either a leap or a push off the building.” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1575091739900-RQ16ZP273YRIYYI85RH3/hilton15.PNG No One Suspects the Busboy Philip Cline was given a closer look after several inconsistent statements he made drew the suspicion of police investigators. Local Vegas papers provided extensive coverage of the investigation into the mass murder committed at the Hilton. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1574584965593-I0IC260VS53SKJ9KHMB3/hiltonmgm7.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Scenes from the devastating 1980 MGM Grand Hotel fire that occurred only three months before the deadly arson at the Las Vegas Hilton. The MGM fire resulted in 87 deaths. (Clockwise from top left) Aerial view of the fire; outline from where a victim of the fire was found in a stairwell; gaming floor of the MGM after the fire. (NFPA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1575092093981-TX9Z0S2UIT0DJ3CB6BQ3/hilton39.jpg No One Suspects the Busboy Cline argued the fire at the Las Vegas Hilton was an accident and that the only reason the blaze resulted in any fatalities was due to the Hilton’s failure to maintain proper fire safety standards. The prosecution countered that Cline knew the inherent risks involved in lighting a fire in a crowded hotel. The local press followed the legal maneuverings of the six week long trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/orbitinn daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559886212155-Y98H6PCAV814FVXFPUA9/orbitinn9.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Postcard from Fort Ord circa the period when Richard Paris was stationed there as a clerk. After going AWOL, Paris eventually found himself in a Las Vegas motel room with 50 sticks of dynamite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559887970368-QCA213R7DC2JNC8N2KCD/orbitinn15.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Article from local paper detailing some of a spate of bomb threats called in to local Vegas motels in the aftermath of the Orbit Inn bombing. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559885786345-DHPC7KFMVRFI1ORATWTF/orbitinncontainerpark.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Container Park today in the same place that the Orbit Inn used to stand. The Orbit Inn operated for years after the 1967 bombing before, as demonstrated above, the site was torn down as part of the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559887300622-AIA7PSXOSULT4D7ALRLB/orbitinn28.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Orbit Inn Motel on East Fremont Street. Image on Left is the Orbit Inn after it was reconstructed in the aftermath of the 1967 bombing (Right). The motive of the bomber has remained a local mystery for decades. (KSNV) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559969710440-ZVJDN1HLGDZWAD5U15BM/orbitinn32.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Headlines detailing the public rift between District Attorney George Franklin and Chief of Detectives Paul Gulas over the cause of the Orbit Inn bombing, with Detective Gulas speculating the blast may have been accidental. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559969958732-XGORMRUJUWGLQR6NPSVO/orbitinn31.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing The graves of Richard J. Paris, bomber of the Orbit Inn, and his wife, Christine, lie side by side. (Findagrave.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559968537632-9VN4IXSSCTOCFT5ZTW8J/orbitinn29.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Photos of the aftermath of the Orbit Inn bombing. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559972056091-Z20Y9MSGMMEVM4AILDWZ/Orbit_Inn-LV_explosion_article-1967-Jan-12-A.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing The FBI conducted an investigation into the Orbit Inn bombing and concluded that Richard Paris had committed suicide by shooting a pack of dynamite due to disappointment over the loss of his military career. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546250767347-T6RJ87WXLJOS55JBUCGZ/orbitinn2.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Rescuers search the rubble of the Orbit Inn for survivors. Local press published graphic images from the bombing that rocked downtown Vegas. (Over50Vegas.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1559969924133-I8L76DQ4OEE6QJRHCV9U/orbitinn30.jpg Orbit Inn Bombing Efforts to regulate the possession and transportation of explosives in the aftermath of the Orbit Inn bombing were defeated by Northern Nevada mining special interests. Above are press accounts from southern Nevada newspapers about the defeat of the “Orbit Inn Bill.” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/lost-women-of-las-vegas daily 0.75 2018-08-05 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/mckenna daily 0.75 2020-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602396425563-8NR9SQUZGSYGL6DYEA84/jails5.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas McKenna’s crime spree upon his release from prison included multiple rapes and the murder of a cellmate. By this point, the Nevada press was well on its way to dubbing McKenna the State’s most dangerous criminal. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602396573089-4HYHYUL7SU3NTKJY6NAQ/jail13.JPG Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas The Las Vegas City Hall housed a jail annex on the second floor of the ten-story structure. This building now serves as the headquarters of Zappos. (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602398906132-6FHZSSAXWSD50UXS21W0/jails8.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602389059824-H8UQAGZONFFWWIELOCUL/jails2.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Three guards were taken hostage by prisoners Patrick McKenna, Eugene Shaw, and Felix Lorenzo. The guards were handcuffed to cell doors to act as human shields in the event police raided the jail annex. Local press in Las Vegas covered the backgrounds of both hostages and captors. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602395333596-4V1JEQH01KEZFRWEGIP4/jails4.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas McKenna and several other inmates staged an escape from the Nevada State Prison in 1967. Nevada press covered the escape attempt and Governor Laxalt’s subsequent firing of the long-serving prison warden for permitting the escape to occur. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602400945039-NHJ9IL3J1SASBM6KGEKH/jails10.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Patrick McKenna’s decades-long legal battle to fight his death sentence, coupled with his willingness to serve as an articulate interview subject, led to consistent coverage of his case by Nevada press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602397735021-KC76PK08WRSW6SM08WY8/jails6.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas McKenna ultimately stood trial for the murder of J.J. Nobles after the conclusion of the jail annex siege. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602394224626-JTGQ7YFA4QINB4OVG37H/jails3.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas McKenna’s father was caught up in 1960’s labor wars in Las Vegas, which included charges of firebombing a cab from a non-union company that made local headlines. McKenna’s brother later recounted the routine childhood abuse Patrick suffered at the hands of their father. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602388057409-GNET54VEIXCZU84F2JQJ/jails1.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Local press extensively covered the takeover of a jail annex located on the second floor of the Las Vegas City Hall, including law enforcement efforts to create a perimeter around the complex. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602389774722-N1JC1DHC10LS4QS61NSC/jail60.jpg Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Spring Mountain Youth Camp, a facility for juvenile offenders located outside of Las Vegas. (Clark County) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602390268187-X23HZP5K7EX0SLBVSXWT/jail61.jpg Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Patrick McKenna (L) - the man dubbed “Nevada’s Most Dangerous Criminal” - conducts a jailhouse interview. McKenna was convicted of murder, multiple sexual assaults, robbery, kidnapping, and several escape attempts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602393489027-FU78OO0GPFOR7V98NQM3/shumate10.jpg Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Sunrise Mountain, located on the east side of Las Vegas, as it appeared around the time of the brutal assault of a young couple by Patrick McKenna and a criminal associate. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602400509164-WMLV7221TIWJ1Q362JXT/jail59.jpg Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas Nevada State Prison where McKenna and a fellow inmate took several hostage amidst an escape attempt in 1981. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602400000452-JY79Q76FYB9DW768EC1V/jails9.png Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas The jail annex siege ended in dramatic fashion. Newsman Bob Stoldal sat stunned as gunfire erupted while he was facilitating negotiations with McKenna. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1602399101904-JM6CR1QGF6YBUOOPLV8Q/jail23.PNG Nevada's Most Dangerous Criminal and a Siege in Downtown Vegas List of demands issued by McKenna and his fellow hostage-takers as published in the local paper. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/new-page-62 daily 0.75 2018-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533524571289-WOCGMZUGN7X2CC575154/strohmeyer3.jpg Sherrice Iverson Murder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533524592602-FK77ROW2DTJKYEPV39VZ/strohmeyer.jpg Sherrice Iverson Murder https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/suburban-murder daily 0.75 2018-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533530897578-CIVLZWWC6KROOCXQ67OS/whaley6.jpg Suburban Murder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533530660154-AECZ3X3NL1BFKJV950L8/whaley1.jpg Suburban Murder https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/the-ninja-killings daily 0.75 2018-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533529569526-OPWQR8YOX8R2M18F6KTV/ninjakiller3.jpg The Ninja Killings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1533529532753-TRGNSUDH8A9S8VKALH10/ninjakillings.jpg The Ninja Killings https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/warbride daily 0.75 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560745391408-ZD95XD4CVY4XSXZI2TB2/warbride55.jpg War Bride Murder Case Headlines detailing other “war brides” implicated in the killing of their husbands, including the case of Alice White, who murdered her husband at Nellis Air Force Base in 1953. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560720569191-P4CHASSLWEL5AF6HPIJC/warbride19.jpg War Bride Murder Case Nevada was known in the 1940’s as well as today for having the shortest residency requirement in the United States for seeking a divorce. Image of newspaper cartoon, circa 1920’s - 30’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560742797644-S3TOGYSU2NQLYY24YTQD/warbride43.jpg War Bride Murder Case 130 Palm Lane, circa 2018. This home near downtown Las Vegas was the site where Bridget Waters shot her estranged husband to death in front of their young son. (Zillow.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560720652067-GVSS2KM7L8A1ECYVENUQ/warbride9.jpg War Bride Murder Case Vegas in 1946 was transitioning from small “sawdust joints” that catered to a cowboy clientele to the resorts that would come to define the city. (Clockwise from top left) Fremont Street circa 1940’s; the Flamingo under construction in 1945-46; interior of the Flamingo in 1946, the resort’s opening year; interior of the Frontier Club, a “sawdust joint” on Fremont Street, circa 1930’s-40’s (note the difference in gaming selections offered as well as clothing style of patrons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560743413776-8U0MVEPIXPU474Z8M1AV/vegascourt1931.jpg War Bride Murder Case Las Vegas courthouse that became the center of an international medial sensation in 1946 over coverage of the Bridget Waters murder trial. The photo here features Las Vegans finding shade under the trees dotting the courthouse lawn. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560741892779-IQQK146KYYHYTDIHAC04/warbride3.jpg War Bride Murder Case Photo of Bridget Waters from her obituary, nearly 60 years after her trial. (Legacy.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560720287290-W8OC03PS4MIEUCRZMWT7/warbride31.jpg War Bride Murder Case Irish “war bride” Bridget Waters traveled thousands of miles to challenge her husband’s efforts to file for divorce. Matters took a tragic turn when Bridget shot her husband during a custody exchange. The local, national, and international press broadcast the ins-and-outs of her trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560746369705-RIXSNMIS2M0CHLKWSKKW/image-asset.jpeg War Bride Murder Case Clark County District Attorney V. Gray Gubler was vocal in his frustration at the level of public sympathy for Bridget Waters. The D.A. did not shy away from litigating the Waters case in the press as well as in the courtroom. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560720720148-Y0SGOHJAVQWH794SD3TK/warbride42.jpg War Bride Murder Case Despite Nevada’s reputation as the place to go for a quick divorce, the local Las Vegas community was sympathetic to Bridget’s efforts to make her husband fulfill his financial obligations to his family. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560742176310-0OJZSSQXJUZFZQJQWKOE/warbride44.jpg War Bride Murder Case Bridget pictured with her son (Left); Bridget’s legal team relied on evidence of Frank’s infidelity and intent to abandon his wife and young son to defeat his attempt to obtain a divorce. Local papers offered verbatim snippets of testimony throughout the trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560720259799-6COJ0X8EDIK9F2LRFMZ9/warbride19.jpg War Bride Murder Case Frank Waters (Left), attorney and temporary resident of Las Vegas while attempting to obtain a divorce from Bridget Waters (Right), a young nurse he met while serving overseas during World War II. Bridget traveled from Britain with the couple’s infant son in 1946 to contest the divorce case filed by Frank. Local press coverage seldom featured Bridget without her young child. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560744131690-M640MR3MKT4S0O0V3MUY/warbride45.jpg War Bride Murder Case Headlines from the local papers detailing the progress of Bridget’s murder trial. In the days before the Strip made Las Vegas a city known the world over, the well-publicized Waters murder trial was for many Americans the first time they had heard of Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560744813055-A63J5WASD8E5LGH5UFYK/warbride52.jpg War Bride Murder Case Bridget was granted parole and returned to Britain after serving only 15 months of a 1 - 5 year sentence. Las Vegas news outlets expressed frustration at the short amount of time served by Bridget. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560741546855-MHWGVZHPNX46L8IZ5EYP/warbride5.jpg War Bride Murder Case Bridget pictured with her young son, Frank, Jr. British aid organizations seeking to publicize the plight of abandoned war-time wives footed the bill for Bridget to travel from Britain to Las Vegas to contest the divorce case filed by her husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1560743124892-QW2HYQMOHW2P0SNEC19T/warbride.jpg War Bride Murder Case Clark County District Attorney V. Gray Gubler moved quickly to charge Bridget Waters with murder over the killing of her husband. Bridget’s young son was treated at the local hospital for superficial wounds to his leg, with the child’s recovery followed by the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/oldwestvegastale daily 0.75 2019-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1543727567669-6LVL9ZS3BP330328N6O3/mulholland2.jpg Tale of Vady Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546317552973-K5E2LYE8YB3JZA5NM6T0/getimage+%281%29.jpg Tale of Vady Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1543727075835-HKCGE3B8S2V562PKV06S/courthouse.jpg Tale of Vady Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1543727973503-W4FX08N6ETI62EHOH7HE/IMG_7920.jpg Tale of Vady Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1543726772352-F6O5SFBAU7NRAZQVW38N/vadygemsaloon.png Tale of Vady Washington https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/abduction daily 0.75 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546311456826-HL6VQQ3U0H38Z1MVMY6V/courthouse.jpg Swift Justice in Early Vegas The Las Vegas courthouse where suspect Walter Smith was brought before Judge Lillis to face questioning over the attempted abduction of the Romero child. (Las Vegas Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1569814355478-XV3HI8W9VFBVZH0Y3XDA/image0.png Swift Justice in Early Vegas Las Vegas Age article about the attempted abduction of the Romero child cautioning mothers to mind their children in light of the increased number of “hobos” in the Vegas area. (UNLV Digital Collection). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1535226823510-57DZPEV57XQWMJ96JU56/abductioncreek2.jpg Swift Justice in Early Vegas The old Las Vegas Creek at the time the Romero child went missing. Today this area is around the intersection of Washington Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard. (UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550990232167-CP9JXG43RJ65F179LORG/abductionbakery2.jpg Swift Justice in Early Vegas The bakery where Walter Smith worked at the time of the attempted abduction of the Romero child. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550991021464-DQ6323H3XBCF9LIOUJJS/abduction5.jpg Swift Justice in Early Vegas Public Service Announcement regarding “Stranger Danger” featuring McGruff the Crime Dog, circa 1980’s. While the adorable mascot helped promote public awareness of a few high-profile cases of random child abduction, in large part the public relations campaign obscured the rare nature of child abduction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1535226308029-KH6ONX0I4Z69KXPBCDGD/abduction1.png Swift Justice in Early Vegas Las Vegas Age headline from January 9, 1909, recounting both the attempted abduction of a child in the newly founded town of Las Vegas and the swift justice administered in the last days of the Old West. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550990680748-LVWFKB5RMTU8R3SAB5VH/abductionlillis.jpg Swift Justice in Early Vegas Undersheriff Sam Gay, top, and Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Henry Lillis, who oversaw the swift justice administered against Walter Smith on suspicion of child abduction (UNLV Digital Collection) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/deputyjudge daily 0.75 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547978983890-61UAED6NBLC3K3UVZG36/courthouse.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge Las Vegas courthouse at the time of the incident between Deputy Sheriff Keate and Judge Harkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547978444458-TGZASLXXCC6GVUWXJE9E/deputy4.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge Clark County Sheriff Sam Gay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547979316335-LRLDIVWKHLMQTEOVNIY3/deputysheriff1.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548030058608-BAIDOEWWD15Z4K8AMQA0/IMG_8276.PNG Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge Article regarding the incident from the Las Vegas Age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547978879809-WP7MHVFIZT0LSEESPZ6S/deputy3.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547978722078-CIA7F07GR3XRJIGU3RZ4/deputy.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge Joe Keate in his later years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548030914865-24CPC9TR4WHAET1YZCKU/oldvegas.jpg Don't Let the Sheriff Shoot the Judge Las Vegas, circa 1917. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/complete-list-of-stories daily 0.75 2018-08-15 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/divorce daily 0.75 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556346620151-XBMDSE3Z3SBKP71MX88Z/divorce23.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Postcard circa 1930’s advertising the short residency requirements to obtain a divorce in Nevada. Promotional materials such as these postcards helped publicize Nevada’s lax attitude toward dissolving the bonds of matrimony in an effort to draw “divorce tourists” to the State. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556400535715-V6D2PTDM9DFXNYQYXZD5/divorcepalacetheater.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Interior of the Palace Theater Building and the stairway where Evelyn Potter was gunned down by her estranged husband. This photo is from a few decades after the shooting. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556421366622-U6ERFJ3T72YACLSTFNXY/vegascourt1931.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Las Vegas Courthouse where Ray Miller’s trial occurred. As seen in the photo, the courthouse was already a common meeting place for Las Vegans, and all the more so during sensational trials. (Las Vegas Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556421524396-76KVBM7VTFRIHHL419ZP/IMG_9063.PNG Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Newspapers headline regarding Ray Miller’s insanity defense. Local press followed the ins and outs of the Miller murder trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556402055853-EFK25V35AA7A3RLE5OMA/divorce25.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World News article recounting Ray Miller’s questioning only days before his execution in the 1927 death of his roommate. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556424828783-RVUUMY7J58W5TB41XTLS/IMG_9037.PNG Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Headline of a local paper from the day of the shooting of Evelyn Potter as she was headed to see her divorce attorneys. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556424767326-83OSM3GKNAXM3WC8L9FT/divorce20.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Ray Miller (standing) near equipment during the construction of Boulder Dam. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556400113483-0S5B4I3J7CAB66VM4M4B/divorcevegas30s.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Among the first early aerial views of downtown Las Vegas, taken at the time when divorce residency requirements were loosened, circa 1931. The town’s population at this time was approximately 5,000 people. (Las Vegas Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556401475970-EBMXZYFUV14GIAQ24DEM/divorce19.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Final resting sites of (Clockwise from bottom) Ray Miller, Peggy Miller, and Evelyn Potter spread across Nevada. (Findagrave.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556400276550-G6SNOSJRDY9PUEX9LU4P/divorce17.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World 1930 Census for Clark County, Nevada, showing Evelyn and Ray separated at some point in 1930, a year after the death of their child. The top shows Ray and Evelyn living together in Las Vegas, while the bottom row shows Evelyn living with her family in Mesquite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556393467467-U3L2HUQQ4ZEGB47JBHBN/divorcenotice.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556401309994-AFGJHU5DW3BZBAY4BPCU/divorceharmon.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Clark County District Attorney Harley Harmon. He not only represented Evelyn Potter in her divorce case against Ray Miller, he went on to prosecute Miller for killing his client. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556421224874-KONS651R7JG8TFNXYK2M/divorcenews.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World The Ray Miller murder trial generated considerable publicity among local and regional papers. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548538549106-Z72BFEUZTFNY8DKR1J8T/divorce1.gif Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Mugshot of Ray Elmer Miller, murderer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556420932911-FXPTR37GQNN4G7YR4PRD/divorcedeathnotice.jpg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1556401512142-NQFWEFFEH9A4NGOJNYUS/divorce15.jpeg Murder in the Divorce Capital of the World Onlookers view the execution of Ray Miller in the “gas house” at the Nevada State Prison, May 8, 1933. The use of a gas chamber as a method of execution was still relatively novel at this time and garnered public attention. (Getty Images) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/coulthard daily 0.75 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557661972478-OE65UQKULATWWYPVN3BG/coulthard12.jpg Deadly Negotiations Police investigators diligently worked the Coulthard case but with no prosecutions to show for their efforts. Lead investigator Avants gave frequent statements to the press as he sought enough evidence to prosecute the Hanleys and Binion. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557643131870-LTHEJ0GO1FATDHWAWTHO/coulthardwsop.jpg Deadly Negotiations Photo of the 7th Annual World Series of Poker hosted at Binion’s Horseshoe Club. The event garnered public interest in its early years, as pictured here, and today has become a major sporting event followed by millions. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557661929956-6MQ78JDYII2AFKBALMW5/coulthard13.jpg Deadly Negotiations News account recounting Coulthard’s prosecution of Hanley for violently beating a member of his union in 1948. Though Coulthard didn’t secure a conviction against Hanley, the deputy city attorney did grill the defendant during cross-examination. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557643692205-QGJY5A1BTSLQZSQFF3TP/tedbinionhanley.jpg Deadly Negotiations Tom Hanley, Benny Binion’s most trusted hitman and likely murderer of Bill Coulthard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557646467418-2VZMJMXIAU315UTENWJG/image-asset.jpeg Deadly Negotiations The Bank of Nevada Building following the bombing of Bill Coulthard’s car. Press photographers from the nearby Review Journal building were first on the scene to document the brazen murder. The building as it stands today (right). The Bank of Nevada Building was renamed the Bridger Building and as of 2019 is condemned, awaiting renovation amidst ongoing redevelopment in downtown Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557659432314-GSUNPJRZ5UN6V4M8ZFDM/shumate2.jpg Deadly Negotiations Herbert “the Cat” Noble next to one of several planes he owned, one of which he would transform into a makeshift bomber in an effort to destroy Benny Binion’s home in Las Vegas while Binion and his family were inside. (Texas Monthly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557659561443-Y4IP3J4IARXUSPZ63B8M/coulthard8.jpg Deadly Negotiations A photo demonstrating Benny Binion’s (far right) lighter and more affable side. (UNLV Digital Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547439818084-ZV20JZDTJ9VZ237F6OAU/coulthard1.jpg Deadly Negotiations Coulthard with his second wife. His first wife died undergoing surgery in 1955, leaving Coulthard the heir to his wife’s varied business interests. Even decades after his murder, Coulthard was remembered in the Las Vegas press for his contributions to the city. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557646562141-0ASN16T3N0H52CKAGUD1/coulthard1.jpg Deadly Negotiations Articles from the late-40’s and early-50’s displaying Benny Binion’s “juice” in Las Vegas that he used to fight his extradition back to Texas on state gambling charges. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557659766813-N0LRL77YXFG4R4L6VDQ3/coulthard11.jpg Deadly Negotiations Tom Hanley’s son, Gramby, worked with his father committing several murders, bombings, and arsons in Las Vegas over the course of a decade. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557659517327-E8WZLB1RD0VO18XPSF9D/shumate2.jpg Deadly Negotiations Benny Binion’s chief rival for the Dallas gambling rackets had his wife killed by a car bombing outside their Dallas home that many suspected Benny Binion ordered. (Texas Monthly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557662005445-807VLRE1ZM4PMOGCCIE9/coulthard14.jpg Deadly Negotiations News article recounting Benny Binion’s testimony during Sheriff Ralph Lamb’s federal trial for tax evasion. Binion told jurors that he expected Sheriff Lamb to repay $30,000 in “loans” at an undefined later date. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557643713455-QZ6GMSQ9QSN5J1N7IKZ8/coulthard5.jpg Deadly Negotiations Binion’s Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas still stands in the same place today that it did in 1972 when the murder of Bill Coulthard eased the way for Benny Binion to sign a new lease for the land where the Horseshoe sits. The hotel and casino is currently located amidst the Fremont Street Experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557646508979-E4Z7EITMIIZYE8R4FAPS/coulthard9.jpg Deadly Negotiations The Cadillac of former FBI agent and attorney Bill Coulthard following the 1972 car bombing at his office in downtown Las Vegas. (Las Vegas Review Journal/Vegas Rag Doll, by Wendy Mazaros and Joe Shoenmann) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/driveby daily 0.75 2019-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546763626290-BV5KMTW7F8WHLGH3MH0Y/driveby2.jpg Just Two Cops Doing a Drive-By Ron Mortensen, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer convicted of murder for committing a drive-by shooting while off-duty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546767828742-2MTO8ECXNWG104U9Z23T/driveby5.jpg Just Two Cops Doing a Drive-By Christopher Brady in uniform, convicted of violating Daniel Mendoza’s civil rights for his role in the drive-by shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546769135494-GG8NJEUHUFWINTEZG2IG/driveby6.jpg Just Two Cops Doing a Drive-By Mortensen was later implicated in a plot to bribe a judge overseeing the appeal of his murder conviction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1546764039440-SCV6HO7MHXPECCVSNTR1/driveby4.jpg Just Two Cops Doing a Drive-By Current view of the site of Mortensen and Brady’s drive-by shooting. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/mulholland daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547434407450-0V34AXP5DYBZ74YW03GH/mulholland3.jpg Drinking, the Blue Room, and the First Officer to Die in the Line of Duty Article in Las Vegas Age announcing murder of Night Watchman Joe Mulholland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547435171412-TLQZKBTK3BDI3NAIHE54/IMG_8231.PNG Drinking, the Blue Room, and the First Officer to Die in the Line of Duty Las Vegas Age article expressing shock at acquittal of McCarthy for the shooting of Watchman Mulholland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547438355023-BXPVW1A48Z1HUGUXAHCT/mulholland1.jpg Drinking, the Blue Room, and the First Officer to Die in the Line of Duty Block 16, where the Mulholland murder occurred on October 1, 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547438417940-34LR63WGT654GMR5TY5M/mulholland4.jpg Drinking, the Blue Room, and the First Officer to Die in the Line of Duty Las Vegas jail circa 1910’s - 1920’s. The jail offered even worse accommodations at the time of the Mulholland murder. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/bootlegger daily 0.75 2019-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548567560450-76QKRJ3N10JZ6374E57D/bootlegger10.jpg A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury Image of ranches featuring artesian wells near Las Vegas near the site of the murder of John O’Brien. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548567592060-6JUII2F92RFSRWDAE9I5/bootlegger1.png A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury A row of seedy bars in Las Vegas where one could acquire illegal alcohol during Prohibition, circa 1920-1930. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548568035305-BQAJRKBC5B9WDC2L8QTQ/bootlegger11.jpg A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury Postcard featuring Clark County Courthouse as it appeared at the time of the trial of John Hall for murder (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548570432226-YW5GQSJGJRQ0I0W5SFAG/bootlegger1.png A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury A missing person found on death row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548567086125-8PQBA3CEJNHGEAPBRN5X/bootlegger7.jpg A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548566246049-HUV6CZBEMN3DESXGUHUO/bootlegger6.jpg A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury John Hall, aka, Everette T. Mull, murderer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548567741685-CUKL23AXRD2RP9HQPL8I/bootlegger3.jpg A Prohibition Murder and the First Women on a Vegas Jury https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/terrorism daily 0.75 2018-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1535234212821-B4ACRZN8549L8EMO0GTD/vegasextremism8.jpg Terrorism in Sin City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1535234354480-4FSM8XO3N0A4BG8QZOFA/vegasextremism1.jpg Terrorism in Sin City https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/schoolshooting daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558788262236-86X750UF1TABF056P0P4/school16.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Students outside El Dorado High School the day after a student was murdered over a personal dispute. Las Vegas press did not appear to find anything remarkable about classes resuming the day after the shooting. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558813807082-LDERGSKVWEOHGK3N7VDL/IMG_9700.PNG Valley High Shooting of 1982 Local press noted that Patrick Lizotte never took his eyes off of the table in front of him during his entire trial. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558785758553-314BH3Z08FZMXOALP8DY/lizotte.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Front of Valley High School today. As he exited the school, Lizotte fired at students entering the school during his spree. (Clark County School District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558785978745-HT2G8857CRIN4GFJK3BZ/school8.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Lizotte being treated by paramedics after being shot by police in a neighborhood near Valley High School. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558787513767-3Y9K3KIY8Y3D2ANVOOL7/school12.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Curtis Collins had no real connection to local gangs, but the shooting at El Dorado High School was enveloped into the larger local media sensationalism regarding gang activity. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558786491161-RZQ91BKYMNAX6GLTSIZH/school19.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Memorial service for Clarence Piggott, attended by 1,500 people (Left); Lizotte being arraigned on charges of murder and attempted murder while recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by police in his hospital room. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558788116261-W5NAO5GDZISGYHSGGA77/schoolshooting7.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Students fleeing the school shooting at MSD High School in Florida, February 14, 2018. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558788565103-AT4MJPCUVOG93BA8LFQL/lizotte2.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Lizotte near the date of his parole in 2017. (Nevada Department of Corrections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558785070947-9IYQTCI8SI7SMZDF4KWP/school4.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Clarence Piggott, murdered while preparing to teach a psychology class. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558784442274-R2CL00ISO2D30Y7F5AT6/school18.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 (Clockwise from top) Headline after the shooting at Valley High School; colleague of murdered teacher Clarence Piggott, mourning at the desk he shared with the slain educator; photos of the students shot by fellow student Patrick Lizotte. News of the unprecedented school shooting dominated the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558813780817-I3COZ6LLHXNN9LIZZMQC/IMG_9699.PNG Valley High Shooting of 1982 Lizotte’s mental health and ability to determine right from wrong were central issues in his trial for murder and attempted murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558786850673-SEDHAHVF4Q62VU8QUF2U/school6.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Photo of school shooter Patrick Lizotte. The shooter’s serious mental health issues were a focus of news reports. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1558787939568-DCNHMKY9O5AWJVAXECIC/school20.jpg Valley High Shooting of 1982 Local news articles announcing increased police presence at Las Vegas schools in aftermath of El Dorado High School shooting. By the end of the decade, these authors had school police present on-site at their high school in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/tedbinion daily 0.75 2022-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557039298883-OFHC7MT2S710TNTAAODZ/tedbinionhanley.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Tom Hanley, the elder member of a father-son hitman team, who is the prime suspect in the murder of kidnap plotter Marvin Shumate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557107052842-FWF1AEV7SCSDS4A3TXKX/shumateokc3.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Aerial view of Oklahoma City at the time Marvin Shumate resided there and made his living as a pool hall operator and manager of illicit gambling rackets from 1954-61. Note the oil derricks not far from downtown OKC. ("Historic Photos of Oklahoma City" / Turner Publishing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557109541035-VEG4DVYTVSY19UC2F399/shumate15.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot There were never any arrests or charges in relation to the Shumate murder. These headlines note the official police line that there were no clear links between Shumate and the kidnapping plot. However, the lack of clear links was due to a central witness, Detective Mike Whitney, being on the payroll of Benny Binion. It also didn’t hurt that the chief law enforcement officer in Las Vegas - Sheriff Ralph Lamb - was a close friend of Old Man Binion and had received tens of thousands of dollars in “loans” from the powerful gambler that were never repaid. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557033495891-ET10O3Y12HDPOFC9IDUV/tedbinion8.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Photo of Ted Binion (Left) with his father Benny circa 1973, a few years after the foiled kidnapping plot. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557037361197-QYF4UV3EB0T1AQ17EQBW/shumate9.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot (Clockwise from top left) The iconic display of a million dollars in cash on the floor of Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas; Exterior view of the Horseshoe Casino circa 1950’s; Promotional material featuring Benny Binion’s motto for running a successful casino: “Treat them right, show them a good time, and the rest will take care of itself.” (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557092975081-I7GX56I48ZGR97G84832/shumate10.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Sunrise Mountain, located on the east side of Las Vegas, as it appeared around the time Marvin Shumate was taken by associates of Benny Binion for a late night drive to the mountain on December 2, 1967. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557107235551-Y56RIDJ5YRU9TLLKL0PE/shumatewhitney3.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Detective Mike Whitney (right) had a spotty service record but enjoyed the publicity afforded to him in his role as a police officer (the detective is pictured here in the local newspaper accompanied by several Strip showgirls). Whitney moonlighted working for Benny Binion, including acting as an intermediary to tip Old Man Binion off about the kidnapping plot. (Las Vegas Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557108108601-8IAEP8BHIDEZAPO4CJ2Y/shumatealsup5.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Marvin Shumate should have known that Benny Binion’s chief enforcer, hitman and union boss Tom Hanley, had no problem killing former friends and associates. (Clockwise from top left) Ralph Alsup was head of the powerful local plumbers union until he was ambushed and killed at his Vegas home; former Hanley associate Alphone Bass testified Shumate was present when Hanley orchestrated the assassination of Alsup; ad from the local Vegas paper noting Alsup and Hanley worked for the same plumbing and heating company; headline after Hanley’s arrest for the murder of his former business associate. (UNLV Digital Collection / Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557109577680-G9GV1J550NK4YWHJPP26/tedbinion6.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot (Clockwise from left) Ted Binion in his later years before his 1998 death; Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish with legal team during their trial for murder of Ted Binion; Millions of dollars of silver located in Ted Binion’s rural desert vault. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557106895695-QO5DD1GVOXXRPX5E9E7K/shumate2.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Aftermath of the car bombing allegedly ordered by Benny Binion that murdered the wife of his chief rival in the gambling rackets. The bombing occurred in front of the Dallas home of Binion’s rival. (Texas Monthly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557107098929-JNVS636NMFZ0FRHYDNG3/shumate11.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot The neighborhood near Eastern and Owens where Marvin Shumate settled with his family in an effort to put the gambling rackets of Oklahoma City behind him, circa 1965. Shumate was willing to risk kidnapping and murdering the favorite son of ruthless gambling boss Benny Binion in order to move beyond this working-class neighborhood. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557095460844-73NDCTR38HO3STPLB403/shumate13.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Alphonse Bass (right) - one of the men that likely accompanied Shumate on his drive out into the desert the night of December 2, 1967 - later went on to turn State’s witness against his former employer, ruthless mob hitman Tom Hanley. Bass was murdered in a Las Vegas arson in 1969, and though Hanley was charged with murdering his former associate he was acquitted of the crime. Bass is pictured here as part of local press coverage of Tom Hanley’s murder trial for the slaying of a local union boss. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557093605561-6AB5E0OQ1LGTZPUNF88Y/shumate12.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Photo of Mike Whitney (who never shied away from publicity) from the local paper after the detective helped locate an illegal sub-machinegun, contrasted with a later headline announcing his suspension for questionable behavior in the Shumate case. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557040227648-K98QDZ07XVR86QYVRABE/IMG_9396.PNG Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Headlines from the local paper after Shumate’s corpse was discovered near Sunrise Mountain in late 1967. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1557112505496-2SMEUL5Y34X59FEO57TK/shumate24hours.jpg Ted Binion Kidnapping Plot Bill Wade, casino table dealer and part-time crook, was given 24 hours to skip town after tipping Benny Binion off about the kidnapping plot targeting his son. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/groesbeck daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547443527455-PXM1PS0C9UQMLQRH0WS2/prohibitionjail.jpg Prohibition Comes to Las Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547417694869-626CYHVMEH4EA85J8OX3/prohibition3.jpg Prohibition Comes to Las Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547443567085-5A0M0215WCZ1A6T6FO2J/image-asset.jpeg Prohibition Comes to Las Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1547443477003-4JPYCR4GA8X451JVHSJ0/prohibition5.png Prohibition Comes to Las Vegas https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/dugan daily 0.75 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548046300131-9AF4Q4935R80LYM4SH0C/IMG_8285.PNG Demon Alcohol Las Vegas Age headline regarding the Wherle murder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548046540265-R0MO8VQW47P8B8Z1LSSX/IMG_8291.PNG Demon Alcohol Dugan was granted parole in 1924. It is unknown what became of him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548046441524-K3O5B8Z530K1ICXGCVTA/IMG_8287.jpg Demon Alcohol Dugan found guilty of the lesser charge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548047324101-EO4P8V20AJMMBJ4LITBJ/dugan1.jpg Demon Alcohol The dives and brothels that lined Block 16 during Prohibition, circa 1920-1930. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/block16robbery daily 0.75 2020-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1555227711119-RN0EOXKAZ780PZGBPKIL/getimage.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas Block 16, the Red Light District of early Las Vegas, consisted of a row of dive bars and saloons. Travelers through early Vegas entered Block 16 at their own risk. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1555229091314-I5O2SCV0UK0RT6QOFBQ2/block16dope5.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas The Clark County Jail where local Vegas resident Glen Harwood served out his sentence, but not before he was caught up in an escape plot by two other inmates - Arthur Wells and James Steele, bandits facing charges for a series of robberies. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1555229708578-5MSK0IKWQ8QJ9GQ5JLVF/block16dope8.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas The desert surrounding early Las Vegas was thick with mesquite brush, offering plenty of opportunities for escaped prisoners Wells and Steele to conceal themselves while fleeing a sheriff’s posse. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1555227980607-T8VBPAO7YKB49F5ERTUB/block16dope2.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas Union Station Depot in Las Vegas around the time George Wood made his ill-fated trip to Block 16. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1548033451239-KBFB4GNJZEVWIAIC03MV/block16dope.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas 1920 Census for Las Vegas showing Glen Harwood’s more stable lifestyle (Line 33). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1555228741263-L9I75CWRJIQBQDZ8MZPY/block16dop6.jpg Losing Your Shirt in Early Vegas Las Vegas Age newspaper article regarding the Wood robbery. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/crime-lists daily 0.75 2019-01-21 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/greenspun daily 0.75 2019-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562486122462-2PDI3VMBZ93Y3ENCZALF/greenspun22.png Greenspun Incitement Charges Eisenhower’s Attorney General, Herbert Brownell (Left), who may have brought charges against Greenspun to embarrass Senator McCarthy. Federal courthouse in Las Vegas where Greenspun faced trial, circa 1950’s (Right). (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562486294241-T3VY78JGNXVE1OQPUMTS/greenspun32.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Greenspun went on to remain a powerful force in Southern Nevada’s public life for the rest of his days (even his publishing arch-rival acknowledged his many contributions to the growth of Las Vegas). Meanwhile, Joe McCarthy died at a young age with his reputation in tatters. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485454654-9BI3VQLAEPOU1YDEMAX2/greenspun14.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Notorious and disgraced U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy with his unscrupulous aide, Roy Cohn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550369759066-8PXD7CF1U7HK234T5N1N/greenspun19.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, Hank Greenspun, beneath headline announcing his indictment for printing an inflammatory article about Senator Joe McCarthy. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485897417-0IF4A41K9ATPCXZU6I8F/greenspun33.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges The rival to the Las Vegas Sun, the Las Vegas Review Journal, was happy to highlight Greenspun’s legal troubles. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562486235964-LI9HORIVAKO7WJ39OAUC/greenspun42.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges The federal trial of Hank Greenspun made local and national headlines. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485838888-CD3GG3KGSXHPHS51BAEX/greenspun36.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Hank Greenspun was one of a few publishers in the country willing to take on McCarthy at the height of his power. The clash between the two public figures would come to a head in a Las Vegas federal courthouse in the spring of 1955. The rival paper to Greenspun never missed an opportunity to highlight the legal problems of the editor of their competitor. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485365683-0WA3JN3JJPKJRZYDV5C3/greenspun30.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Hank Greenspun casting a vote after his rights were restored upon receiving a pardon from President Kennedy. Greenspun had previously been convicted of violating the Neutrality Act for sending arms to the newfound State of Israel during its fight for independence. (Las Vegas Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485782736-7DB77FOX9GE9MRZKO6Y0/greenspun37.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges The Las Vegas Review Journal, rival to Greenspun’s Las Vegas Sun, noted the filing of an affidavit disavowing any links to communist groups. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562486162127-VL191YMVCONYRK5E2OY9/greenspun31.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Nationally syndicated columnists speculated on the political machinations behind the prosecution of Greenspun. Many thought the prosecution was a ruse to tarnish McCarthy’s reputation. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562485712707-X3R2IS3V69WY8Z0L9GLA/greenspun34.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy and Hank Greenspun became involved in a heated verbal spat during a Vegas campaign rally in 1952, which was covered extensively by the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1562487090333-SZBPKDQCIBYXBX8QWZUH/greenspun17.jpg Greenspun Incitement Charges Greenspun (Left) used his federal prosecution for incitement as a method to spread his attacks on McCarthy. For his part, the notoriously outspoken demagogue McCarthy (Right) largely refrained from involvement with the trial. https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/inkspots daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550380407005-IAEMWVGVHB0BPSN7JVAI/inkspots5.jpg Bigotry and a Bomb Blast Representatives from the NAACP and city leaders of Las Vegas meet at the Moulin Rouge in 1961 to reach an agreement to desegregate the Strip and downtown casinos. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550380525632-IH7GP8FV5VSEZLVF5EK2/inkspotsbomb6.jpg Bigotry and a Bomb Blast Stanley Morgan, victim of the bigoted attack on his home, pictured with his Ink Spots, a regular Vegas act of the 1960’s. (UNLV Digital Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1644205158275-VLSHBD7CXNYTHV6LUFC8/inkspots30.jpg Bigotry and a Bomb Blast - Make it stand out A white supremacist terror attack against Strip entertainer Stanley Morgan, leader of the band The Ink Spots, generated heightened coverage in the local and national press due to the recent disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Morgan’s home was bombed in 1964 shortly after he moved his family into an all-white neighborhood of Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/UCR/LVRJ/UPI) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1644149108138-4LNGTX46ZNSX372ZSRCF/inkspots26.jpg Bigotry and a Bomb Blast - Make it stand out The bombing of Stanley Morgan’s home shocked many in the Vegas community. The Las Vegas-Review Journal published an editorial lamenting the attack and calling for action to prevent the spread of further racially-motivated attacks. For his part, Morgan refused to bow to intimidation and continued to live with his family at the residence on Shadow Lane. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/rainsberger daily 0.75 2019-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550469073079-GHHDKOWZVFKV213G8N24/rainsberger9.jpg Rainsbgerger Murder Las Vegas, circa 1950, at the time of the Folker murder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550469171700-5SFP5W43DFK05V2O5L9B/rainsberger-poetry.jpg Rainsbgerger Murder Book written by Rainsberger from prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550468630235-20F5ESV102CUM49QM6NT/rainsberger.jpg Rainsbgerger Murder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1550469142671-6T7VIMDUSIWQPUWR4XUV/rainsberger5.jpg Rainsbgerger Murder https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/serialmurder daily 0.75 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563705766412-FHEXHZD9GHX1DR0ZI00I/serial8.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Shane Schindler (Left), likely culprit of two bludgeoning deaths in downtown Las Vegas. Joshua Castellon (Right) convicted of murdering two homeless men in Las Vegas and attempting to kill two other people. Scene of Las Vegas unsheltered homeless people. (YouTube) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563705731691-TO1RMVI5FEZOH0KU9EIG/serial7.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Wayne Horton committed at least four murders across Las Vegas between 1973 and 1976, including that of casino worker Edward Buccieri. Horton’s crimes captivated local media attention due to the homegrown nature of the spree. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563704898255-KOMMLH6R7A7AGTSVAGWF/serial6.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Drifter and multiple murderer Thomas Crump stood trial for the murder of a sex worker in Las Vegas. Local press accounts focused on the callous demeanor of Crump. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563704550227-96R46OQ9HHQLYLBB5RXB/serial5.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Serial killer Carroll Edward Cole, responsible for at least twelve deaths, murdered two women in Las Vegas years apart. His trial in Clark County was the focus of local press coverage as the public was becoming more familiar with the serial killer phenomena. He was ultimately executed at the Nevada State Prison for his crimes. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563703357325-L6PAINXHHQ2V1JSKUO0C/serial2.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Photo of serial killer Christopher Wilder lurking in the background during a Seventeen magazine fashion show at the Meadows Mall in Las Vegas on April 1, 1984. Wilder would kidnap and kill 17-year-old Michelle Korfman after meeting her at this fashion show, with the nationwide manhunt for Wilder making international headlines. (Daily Mail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563704442379-D5WU4UO1TX699RUUYREV/serial1.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City Serial killer Samuel Little, who is believed responsible for over 90 deaths, and a sketch he rendered of a woman he murdered in Las Vegas in 1993. The woman’s identity remains a mystery. (FBI) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1615093484483-Q4ZZC442ZXXP2FMXQBW9/serial2.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/domestic daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563710458027-OW3FWEJGPO2GZO4Y6V7J/warbride17.jpg Domestic Disturbances The murder by Bridget Waters of her estranged husband during a custody exchange made international headlines. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563710962045-S2EG4WFXFKI0R0DVI5SX/dv10.jpg Domestic Disturbances Sergeant Henry Prendes, murdered responding to a domestic dispute call. Officer Prendes is memorialized online and at the police officer’s monument in Las Vegas. (ODMP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563709469597-TBB3T9ZLVWYNJVC7S1QU/dv4.jpg Domestic Disturbances George Cooper shot his estranged wife and her boyfriend to death. Cooper was convicted of a lesser manslaughter charge for the slayings, a verdict the local press expressed outrage over. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563709380831-X6KAEJ7CWRIG3JPW0011/dv2.jpg Domestic Disturbances Contractor and pilot John Covarrubias crashed his plane into a bar along Boulder Highway after his ex-wife refused to reconcile. The unprecedented suicidal attack drew the attention of Las Vegas media, though this attempted mass murder is largely forgotten today. (Las Vegas-Clark Country Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563710556832-N7GSDP9ECJMMDEV1HM5H/dv8.jpg Domestic Disturbances Worker at the Boulder Dam, Ray Elmer Miller, shot his estranged wife to death in downtown Las Vegas as she went to meet with her divorce attorneys. (Clockwise from top, left) Mugshot of Miller; spectators watching Miller’s execution at the Nevada State Prison gas chamber, which was publicized for the novel means of execution; Clark County District Attorney Harley Harmon, who not only prosecuted Miller but also had served as one of his murdered wife’s divorce attorneys; stairs where Evelyn Miller was shot by her estranged husband; newspaper announcement of Evelyn Miller’s filing for divorce, which prompted her estranged husband to seek revenge. (Getty / UNLV Digital Collection / Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1571023233513-UDCQPHKYK4FDATX00FFI/domestic22.jpg Domestic Disturbances Articles at the time of court employee Donna Hernandez’s murder at the hands of her ex-husband focused on the fact Donna repeatedly sought court and police intervention to stop her husband’s threats before it was too late. Donna’s murder led to the creation of Donna’s House at Clark County Family Court in Las Vegas, a location to safely conduct custody exchanges. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1563709416168-AUQDZ3YLBC7G153CI2LO/dv6.jpg Domestic Disturbances The Bridget Waters case was not the last incident of a “war bride” murdering her American husband in Las Vegas. Local press offered a sympathetic view of Alice White, who murdered her abusive husband while he slept. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/boomtown daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1564979426673-EDYPW0RZ999XC5RS4LXB/bramlet11.jpg Boomtown - Bombs in Sin City Las Vegas was rocked by a series of bomb attacks against local restaurants. These bombings were the result of a labor war that was detailed by the local press. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1564978459801-A8YBUDD848J5HP712BDL/orbitinn29.jpg Boomtown - Bombs in Sin City The bombing of the Orbit Inn Motel in 1967 by a deserter from the U.S. Army shocked the city of Las Vegas as it continued to develop its national reputation as the entertainment and vice capital of America. Local press followed the investigation into the still-mysterious motives of the bomber. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1564978715375-BP48YNNCF11YI259BP6Z/coulthard9.jpg Boomtown - Bombs in Sin City The shattered remains of the vehicle of prominent Las Vegas attorney Bill Coulthard. The slain lawyer had been active in Las Vegas civic life after serving as the first FBI agent at the Las Vegas field office. Hotel owner Benny Binion was suspected of involvement in the blast, though no charges were ever brought against Binion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1564979200995-X0AUMXOUPTJCF8O0OA41/bomb5.PNG Boomtown - Bombs in Sin City The Las Vegas press covered in detail the attempted assassination of former mob associate, professional gambler, and casino executive Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1564977960516-TGQ5OS51FFU2C8QCJBLX/bomblist1.jpg Boomtown - Bombs in Sin City News accounts of the 1972 bombing of a TWA airliner at McCarran International Airport focused on the need to increase airport security measures, which in many locales were lax by modern standards. For example, at the time of this bombing, McCarran Airport had no perimeter fence between public roads and the tarmac. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/oldwest daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1565507331027-GA5XJPL1EVDYZZIEE6A8/abduction1.png Old West Crimes of Las Vegas Las Vegas Age from January 9, 1909, recounting both the attempted abduction of a child in the newly founded town of Las Vegas and the swift justice administered in the last days of the Old West. 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The chain gang pictured here is from Oakland, California around the turn of the 20th century - press coverage of chain gangs was encouraged by local authorities to deter would-be minor criminals and “hobos.” (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1565507673916-LCFN457FSGZS3NQJOE6E/mulholland6.jpg Old West Crimes of Las Vegas News account from California papers recounting the murder of the first law enforcement officer in Las Vegas. The brazen killing occurred only a few months after the founding of Vegas and captured regional press attention. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1570359118302-K4LRPB07LULCMPW0FSTJ/getimage.jpg Old West Crimes of Las Vegas Block 16, the row of saloons and brothels that constituted the Red Light District of early Las Vegas, circa 1910. 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Press accounts of the time covered the bizarre twists of the Hall murder case. (California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1566450138277-UMC4IM4ZXL5OH4FV75JK/prohibitionbomb1.jpg Shocking Prohibition Crimes of Las Vegas Article recounting the bombing of a downtown Vegas speakeasy in 1932. The local press helped increase pressure for public officials to act against illegal bootleggers. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1570945377627-I2VNBM90XX9H0VWDE87Z/schoolshooting5.jpg Longer True Crime Tales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/4883c31e-c3f3-4fae-97c1-b28d74387f3e/threebodies14.jpg Longer True Crime Tales - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1570945177707-4RPNWK1R1GVDT9M1K5KT/block16dope5.jpg Longer True Crime Tales https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/about daily 0.75 2022-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1571031517478-8FGJ411EDH9RRVQXCL2P/about3.jpg About Us Mrs. & Mr. Smith, creators and authors of Mayhem in the Desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1571020890899-BJX5BMXWRB4FH0KY0TMC/sources.jpg About Us The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District is a valuable resource for information about Las Vegas history. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/1984serialarticlepics daily 0.75 2019-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756358541-ZETFUF786C6Z47UKY82W/IMG_1763.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756489129-YEVSED14O5TU56T1YWKR/IMG_1768.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756516042-VB4F72YSWEG9TZHI7Z42/IMG_1769.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756459606-UHTQTUMYNF7VZ8KK8SWG/IMG_1767.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756422740-NE9WEP7ZPF1M1LMRSS06/IMG_1766.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756158674-4O4RREQGECTODRTC78FJ/IMG_1760.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756228517-KDL1RBDPVO9QK7K7J99K/IMG_1761.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1572756393008-BMS2CZCT280B9284UZ4X/IMG_1765.jpg 1984 Serial Murder Article https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/kimbryant daily 0.75 2022-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578863297346-1D6QCLD1AIGL7PT4FAO3/bryant63.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Photo of Stephen Peter Morin a.k.a. Robert Generoso. National media extensively covered the crimes of Robert Generoso after his true identity was known. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579465194327-6W9W20UCBQSB2RNMZQ08/bryantpage11.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Stephen Peter Morin, a serial killer with a propensity for targeting young women and teenage girls remains a strong suspect in the Kim Bryant slaying, but law enforcement was never able to definitively link Morin to that crime. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578863886084-6RC3G2L30LV17DXRCRZ3/bryant39.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant The local press in Las Vegas followed the Morin case closely once his links to the Bryant, Daniel, and Belote murders became clear. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578835244964-WIJF806AYPBSP0UOF823/bryant5.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant A short blurb ran in local Las Vegas papers in early February of 1979, about a week after 16-year-old Kim Bryant went missing from a Dairy Queen across the street from Western High School. Local papers and radio stations refused to publicize Kim’s disappearance until she was officially declared missing by the police. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578836476116-8IO7HOCNG4V19YR25CK3/bryantpage3.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Las Vegas faced an unusually large spike in its homicide rate in the first months of 1979, causing police to divert detectives from the Kim Bryant case to newer murder cases. Local media covered the Bryant investigation but coverage petered out within a few weeks of Bryant’s body being located. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578837114478-HYCR16LKSIYMHYIN5HJL/bryantpage5.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578836929712-SZVYXVR1DTBG9FT7DA7J/bryant3.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Robert Generoso aka Robert Ireland, new arrival to Las Vegas in 1977. (AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578835432584-H7T5TSLOJR1DSYFWT4IK/bryant45.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant The site where Kim Bryant disappeared on January 26, 1979. This building at 115 N. Decatur Boulevard was a Dairy Queen at that time. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578835903510-K1R99HDI3N7E40X8NVC8/bryantpage2.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Kim Bryant’s body was found in the desert near the intersection of Charleston and Buffalo about a month after her disappearance. Hundreds turned out to remember the slain girl’s memory, including former Nevada Governor Mike O’Callaghan, a friend of the family. Kim was an active volunteer with the Special Olympics. Local media covered Bryant’s memorial service and remarks by former Governor O’Callaghan. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579464527741-WAG9C8S85BP6JYEO2VPF/bryantpage10.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant National and Las Vegas media devoted extensive coverage to Stephen Peter Morin’s legal battles as he sat on death row. Morin ultimately was executed by the State of Texas in 1985. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578861637243-YAXRCBKNGHXBHBXN2A4A/bryant61.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Article noting the discovery of the body of Bobby Gene Thomas in the desert near Hoover Dam. While the murder of Thomas would only warrant this blurb in the paper, his death would later become central to the Kim Bryant murder investigation. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579463832788-TXZ4ZZKM62RBEXDG3OWV/bryantpage9.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Handwritten papers filed by Ronnie Lee Fain after submitting his confession to the murder of Bobby Gene Thomas. Fain claimed he should be found not guilty of the Thomas murder by reason of insanity. (Clark County Court Records) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578836797211-A9OYFFIXGTD5E089CQMF/bryantpage4.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant After an article appearing in a local newspaper in August of 1979, two classmates of Kim Bryant were able to provide police with a description of the passenger in a 1955-57 Chevy that had been harassing students around Western High School in the days leading up to Kim’s abduction. Kim and her friend were verbally accosted by two young men in a similar car shortly before Kim disappeared. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579465609071-O159XAE7IIXNGMYUC36D/bryantpage12.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Satellite and ground view of the power station at Charleston and Buffalo as it stands today. (Google Maps/Author Photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578862961290-QTFFVHG94X8O3SXKRAYG/bryantpage7.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Ronnie Lee Fain became a long-running feature in local Vegas press for decades due to his ongoing legal battles. Fain entered a guilty plea in 1980 that threw a twist into the Bryant murder investigation. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579464138297-IACRSM39D19O58J9PHMV/bryantpage8.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Part of the national media fascination with the Morin case was due to his propensity for remaking his appearance throughout his crime spree, earning him the moniker “The Chameleon.” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/AP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578834824122-ABXX155TE733UCCFVZEH/bryantpage1.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant High school sophomore Kim Bryant was kidnapped from a Dairy Queen across the street from her school in Las Vegas on January 26, 1979. Local news followed the story of Kim’s abduction and murder for years, but no suspects were ever charged in relation to her murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578863667125-7IJWN01MFKRSQJ5M9AYB/bryant59.PNG Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Morin was identified by a witness as the man present with Kim Bryant at the Playland Skating Rink two weeks prior to her disappearance. Morin had also become acquainted with Cheryl Daniel at a Playland Skating Rink, a popular hangout as evidenced by frequent ads for the establishment. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1578837209249-SK1TYW933M9MXAFVT241/serialarticle1984.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant An article from 1984 in a local Vegas newspaper detailing police suspicions and public frustration over the lack of answers in the murders of dozens of local women. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579464762045-G9Y47FYBPD24DH9XDHEO/bryantpage6.jpg Taken from School: The Unsolved Murder of Kim Bryant Headlines detailing Bobby Gene Thomas’s criminal history around Las Vegas, including coverage of the trial surrounding the death of Thomas’s sister-in-law, Helen Hynes. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/lostwomenseries daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1579486230180-A8KVYLJI9QDEQOJBFFBH/bryantpage1.jpg Lost Women of Las Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/f408afaf-54b3-4d9e-aea3-0dc6de151598/threebodies14.jpg Lost Women of Las Vegas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592205632651-OM2MYYYIMBLFH3XLDOC5/image-asset.jpeg Lost Women of Las Vegas https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/trafficking daily 0.75 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592194257597-L2QYCA6EHHI38TYA9VZR/traffick6.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun The bodies of several women were located in the desert on the east edge of Las Vegas between mid-1994 and early-1997. Local press noted Metro homicide detectives suspected these murders may have been linked and could possibly be the work of a single individual. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592204609068-N9BBOJ3HU15HA258NHKV/traffick3.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun The bodies of three women were found on March 25, 1996, in the desert near the Las Vegas Wash about 200 yards from a waste water treatment plant not far from the intersection of Vegas Valley and Hollywood. (Google Maps; Las Vegas Wash Conservation Committee). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1591603083626-EWCY441MKSOVIQUIN6AV/traffick4.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun Photo of the crime scene were the shallow beehive grave was discovered near the Las Vegas Wash. This article was one of only a few that ran in the press about the brutal triple murder. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592196387015-KPA02H2H64NMRK7FIT63/traffick7.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun Human traffickers have moved away from targeting women in China with newspaper ads. Example of current Chinese social media ads used by traffickers to recruit potential victims. (Polaris Project) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592200680899-A75TZF8JAL0TC5VJ2RZP/traffick9.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun One of the few articles in the local press about the triple homicide. Next to the article is an ad for an area strip club, demonstrating the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for the sale of sex in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592200463995-6X1398F4XNKEZMWW0DYS/traffick8.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun As seen from these headlines, the local Las Vegas press could not restrain itself from the use of clever wordplay when describing decades-long regulatory battles between Clark County and the massage industry. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1591603665088-DJYV2ED8RJXV6AH48CPV/traffick1.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun LVMPD Sergeant Bill Keeton, lead detective on the investigation into the murders of the three Jane Does found near the Las Vegas Wash. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1592205044284-9SIQVS3EFKOR1HV0B2SM/traffick10.jpg Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun The discovery of the bodies of three women in the desert outside of Las Vegas in 1996 received barely any coverage in the local press. Police speculated the three victims may have been associated with massage parlors serving as fronts for illicit prostitution. (Google Maps; Las Vegas-Clark County Library District). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1591603577850-LK8ZRTAHJQGTKT9NPQZ0/IMG_1341+%281%29.JPG Trafficking and Murder Under the Desert Sun https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/serialmurder2 daily 0.75 2023-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647825771417-VBVMNC3JLZTI45EPN0GH/morin4.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 - Make it stand out Part of the national media fascination with the Morin case was due to his propensity for remaking his appearance throughout his crime spree, earning him the moniker “The Chameleon.” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/AP/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647825224147-ITHD1GPOI85FG4936IZA/gacyvegas4.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 - Make it stand out “Killer clown” John Wayne Gacy worked briefly at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas before embarking on his notorious murder spree in Illinois. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647829821919-MLB3THIZAOXT47VQIHEN/west3.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 - Make it stand out Las Vegas reporter Glenn Puit devoted years to researching the crimes of Brookey Lee West, who was convicted of murdering her mother in Las Vegas and then storing her body at a local storage facility for years. (Las Vegas Review-Journal/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647825376934-CLCRMARUBSA8UZQ2ZMXQ/jenkins34.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 - Make it stand out Edward Allen See, a little-known serial killer that happened to make his way through Las Vegas in September of 1979, was convicted of the murders of Sheila Griffith and Johnsie Bame after his arrest for robbery in North Carolina. The only photo we could locate of See was of him in his old age while imprisoned in Nevada. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/NVDOC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647828489136-CX7VECP6K38II2ATVKZH/spystore2.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 - Make it stand out Craig Jacobsen (aka John Flowers) operated a well-known spy store in Las Vegas during the mid-90’s. Jacobsen’s double life as a brutal killer captured local and national media attention after it was discovered Jacobsen murdered 20-year-old entertainer Ginger Rios (pictured on the left with her salsa dancing group) during her visit to the spy store. Jacobsen is also suspected in the murder of two other women buried in the Arizona desert not far from where Rios’ remains were discovered. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/AP/LVMPD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1647830966934-PB7C2QJI6UDLHH53XQPQ/sk25.jpg Serial Killers of Sin City - Part 2 Neal Falls lived in the Las Vegas area when several young women in the sex industry went missing. Falls was eventually killed by Heather Saul, an escort that Falls had met online, after Falls attempted to murder Saul in her West Virginia home. (Charleston, W. Va. 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(Las Vegas Review-Journal/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/contribute daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1649655387260-F0K55L7WU8U65EWJS4OT/mayhemlogoyt.gif Help Support Mayhem in the Desert https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/video daily 0.75 2024-03-22 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/mayhem-in-the-media daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/disposed-of-in-the-desert daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/74184876-8802-4b5b-bb29-cda334dc1642/threebodies4.jpg Disposed of in the Desert The mystery behind who left the bodies of three women buried in the desert outside of Las Vegas in 1996 would trace back to Downey, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/edae866d-c4fc-4d1a-8843-9e3cf12da489/threebodies9.jpg Disposed of in the Desert - Make it stand out Detective Dwayne Cooper with the Downey Police Department was one of the investigators that picked up the cold case of the disappearance of a local woman and her two teenage daughters. (City of Downey) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/1d673d0c-8e25-4ae2-a32e-9085331bf461/threebodies10.jpg Disposed of in the Desert - Make it stand out Estanislao Prado Gonzalez was ultimately convicted of the murders of his girlfriend and her two daughters. (UCR Digital Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/a3313bb8-2db4-4826-9096-93b5f8391dc8/threebodies11.jpg Disposed of in the Desert - Make it stand out Details of the murders of Luz Maria Mucino and her two daughters, Edith and Gabriela, were kept sealed for a period of time after the arrest of Estanislao Prado Gonzalez for the triple homicide, resulting in very limited press accounts of this crime. The above article was one of only two identified in the Las Vegas newspapers covering this case. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/0c9b04b5-8fd5-4df9-bf35-6cb404d18153/threebodies14.jpg Disposed of in the Desert When the bodies of three women were discovered buried in a shallow grave on the eastern side of Las Vegas in early 1996, detectives believed the murders were related to sex trafficking by organized crime groups. It would take decades for the public to learn the truth behind this triple homicide. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/72ce1084-9ffb-4407-bbcc-56fd40ea6d42/threebodies12.jpg Disposed of in the Desert - Make it stand out While the murders of Luz Maria Mucino and her two daughters was not tied to sex trafficking as investigators initially suspected, the year after this triple murder was solved, two sex workers - Victoria Magee and Charlotte Combado - who were dropped off at the Hard Rock by their pimp were brutally murdered and left in the desert in Henderson. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Wikipedia) https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/the-killer-on-the-other-side-of-vegas-verdes daily 0.75 2024-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/34c60757-b4d0-4c82-b570-ee42eda40348/zaneshooting2.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes - Make it stand out Las Verdes Street, where Zane Floyd walked during the early morning hours of June 3, 1999, with a rage-fueled plan to cause senseless violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/03878bbb-301b-48fa-9f9b-dbabf9341bcf/zaneshooting3.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes - Make it stand out Crime scene photo of the aftermath of the shooting rampage at the Albertsons located at Sahara and Valley View. Local news extensively covered the mass shooting, which occurred before the modern epidemic of mass shootings. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County District Court/Nevada Independent) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/b37d7252-5c6f-4bd0-b36e-e4f7828356dd/zaneshooting1.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes On June 3, 1999, Zane Floyd walked along Las Verdes Street with a loaded shotgun, nineteen shells, and a plan to kill the next nineteen people he encountered. (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County District Court/Nevada Independent) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/75b91f2a-08de-4420-ac89-d0dd90b47388/zane26.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes - Make it stand out Vegas Verdes Elementary, where one of the authors attended elementary school. (CCSD/Author Photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/615e0088-d7b8-4990-9251-bc6e51603e3a/zane24.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes Zane Floyd served in the Marines but he was denied his request to reenlist due in part to his issues with alcohol. He then worked as a bouncer at Sneakers tavern on East Tropicana Avenue and as a security guard with Affirmative Security. Classified ad that appeared in the local newspaper in 1999 for Floyd’s former employer, Affirmative Security. Article detailing Floyd’s issues with holding down employment and alcohol. (Department of Defense/Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/48ec9d96-d946-4802-b221-7dfce88ccc26/zaneshooting4.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes - Make it stand out District Attorney Stew Bell holds the murder weapon during Zane Floyd’s trial, which was covered by the local press along with the impact of the murders on the families of Floyd’s victims. Pictures in lower right corner, from left to right: Thomas Darnell, Carlos Leos, Dennis Sargent, Lucille Tarantino (all murdered by Floyd), and Zachary Emenegger (seriously wounded by Floyd). (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District/LVRJ/Clark County District Court/Nevada Independent) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57944073ff7c504fa51b2f99/e980c276-15c1-490f-97de-0b7ec42ad17c/zane22.jpg The Killer on the Other Side of Vegas Verdes - Make it stand out Photo of the guest house where Zane Floyd resided at his parents house near Vegas Verdes Elementary School. 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