Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Las Vegas police: Body found in barrel at Lake Mead may have been there for decades" video.

It was probably somebody organized, as this would take several people to load and unload the body off the boat. It wouldn't surprise me if it was mob related, but it could also be a family dispute or something else. But, whatever it was, it was almost certainly the result of multiple people sharing the same beef with the victim.
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One, it's Vegas, and two there were quite a few decades for bodies to accumulate. Even just a couple a year out, far enough that the murderer wouldn't expect the lake to reveal over the last 70 years could number into the low three digits. Just about any major city with a substantial lake could be in the same situation. Around here Lake Washington is large enough, that there could well be dozens of barrels just like that which will never be found. The city is well over a hundred years old and any of the barrels from the early days of metal barrels would likely be covered in silt by now. Even after the lake level dropped due to the digging of a canal, there's still substantial depth in parts of the lake.
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@huemann7637 Quite possibly, if they're not dead, they're quite old. A 20 year old when this was done would be in their 50s or 60s depending upon when exactly this crime was committed. As in now old enough to have lived the best years of their life. And it could take many years before they develop any meaningful leads about the perpetrators involved. There's a fairly decent chance that whomever did this is already in prison on other charges though, so they may have just escaped conviction on this, but could still be sitting behind bars for all this time.
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It wasn't necessarily homicide just because the body was found in a drum. There are other reasons why a body might be disposed of in that fashion, including drug overdose where they're concerned about the police figuring out where the drug operation they overdosed at was located. But, that being said, obviously, it's highly unlikely to be anything other than homicide. This just means they think they found evidence on the skeleton of a fatal injury.
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Rittenhouse Rules Yes and if they aren't yet dead, by the time they figure out who did, they'll probably have already passed. Even a young offender of 20 would be in thier 50s by now depending upon when exactly the barrel went into the lake. It could potentially take years to identify a suspect after all this time, assuming they even figure out whom the victim is. Which could also take time, there are bodies they found on land during this time period in better condition that are just now being identified after having them for most of that time. SO, who knows, but it's likely that by the time they get the information to consider filing charges, that the murderer will already be dead. And probably most of the people that knew the victim as well.
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