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Las Vegas Police to Announce Identity of Body Found in Barrel in Lake Mead
Genealogical DNA profiling and a family sample helped identify the victim, while investigators say the decades-old killing remains unsolved.
- On Thursday, authorities identified human remains found inside a barrel at Lake Mead in 2022 as Edward Lelburian Jackson, an Arkansas man; officials confirmed Jackson died from a gunshot wound in the early 1980s.
- Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse stated forensic scientists used genealogy profiling to link the remains to Jackson's family, following a composite sketch created in 2023 after initial DNA efforts failed to produce a match.
- Known to family as "Uncle Buddy," Jackson lived in California in the 1970s and faced criminal charges in Utah before visiting Arkansas in the early 1980s; police confirmed he had no known ties to Las Vegas.
- Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Homicide Lieutenant Robert Price stated investigators have no evidence linking the killing to organized crime, though the homicide investigation remains active and unsolved.
- Receding water levels at the 90-year-old reservoir, caused by drought and excessive water use, exposed the barrel that remained submerged for decades; authorities noted the location was likely hundreds of yards offshore when the body was discarded.
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Arkansas man identified as Las Vegas homicide victim found stuffed in barrel in Lake Mead | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
LAS VEGAS -- The remains of a man who was shot in the head and stuffed into a rusted barrel found on the shore of Lake Mead after the water level dropped were identified Thursday as an Arkansas man whose decades-old killing remains unsolved.
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lehighvalleyliveBody found in Lake Mead barrel is identified: ‘Earmarks of a mob hit’
A body found in a barrel on the shore of Lake Mead has been identified more than four years later.
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