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We’ve been working with the creator of the Jeff Does Vegas Podcast to bring you a new season of Sin City Stories Podcast about the true crimes that have shaped Las Vegas. We really like how this series brings to life these true crime tales in a brand new way. Episodes available in just a few hours!
And Happy New Year to all!
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The body of an unidentified young woman was found near Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard in August of 1979. For decades the victim remained unknown - until this month when “Sahara Sue Doe” was identified as 19-year-old Gwenn Marie Story.
Story left her home in Ohio in the summer of 1979 on a trip with two male friends to locate her biological father in California. She was never heard from again after leaving Cincinnati. Police are still seeking information on the identity of Story’s two male companions.
Images from LVRJ coverage of the Story murder and photo released by Metro when identity of Story was determined.
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We have an exciting announcement coming soon from Mayhem in the Desert! We’ve been a little quiet lately while we work on new ways to bring you the true crime history of Las Vegas, but it will definitely be worth the wait.
In the meantime, check out our archives about the true crime tales that made Las Vegas!
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It was the early morning on May 7, 2007 – just after 4:00 a.m. – and 27-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio had just clocked out from his job as a vendor at Nathan’s Famous hot dogs in the food court of the Egyptian-themed pyramid-shaped Luxor hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Accompanying him was his new girlfriend, Caren Chali, who also worked at the Luxor.
The couple made their way to the top of the two-story parking garage behind the Luxor where Dorantes Antonio had parked his car. The young hot dog stand vendor noticed a coffee cup on top of his vehicle. Dorantes Antonio lifted the 24-ounce 7-11 Styrofoam coffee cup from the roof.
An explosion ripped through the night air.
Dorantes Antonio didn’t know – and would have no reason to have suspected – that within the coffee cup was a motion-activated pipe bomb. The explosive device mortally wounded Dorantes Antonio and sent shrapnel throughout the top floor of the garage, the jagged metal piercing other nearby vehicles.
Miraculously, Chali was uninjured by the bomb despite being only feet from the blast.
This was only a few years after 9/11, and national news media immediately speculated that the bombing was the result of a terrorist attack. But within hours, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives determined that the murder of Dorantes Antonio was not the result of an international terrorist cell but instead stemmed from what local news media dubbed a “jilted lover” seeking revenge.
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Anti-shoplifting PSA from the 1980’s that appeared in the LVRJ.
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Tensions in the Cold War were mounting in the early 1980’s. Amidst this backdrop, an elderly couple known for their outspoken views against the Soviet Union – including involvement in clandestine efforts to help persecuted Jews escape the USSR – were found murdered in their Las Vegas home under circumstances straight out of a spy thriller.
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This video has new info on the 1967 plot by a Vegas cab driver to kidnap Ted Binion, the son of notorious gangster-turned-casino owner Benny Binion. Skip to 22:21.
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Many believe that casino owner and former cowboy-gangster Benny Binion was responsible for the murder of former FBI agent and attorney Bill Coulthard in a brazen bomb attack in downtown Las Vegas back in 1972.
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Find out how a refusal to pay a father-son hitman duo resulted in the downfall of one of the most powerful people in Las Vegas history.
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Mayhem in the Desert ventured to Northern Nevada last week where we stayed at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. The hotel was the scene of a bombing in 1980 as part of a failed extortion attempt.
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This month marks forty years since 17-year-old Catherine Tighe vanished from her Las Vegas high school. Her abduction and subsequent murder remain unsolved all these decades later, but the murder bears striking similarities to another infamous Las Vegas crime – the 1979 slaying of Kim Bryant.
Read the rest of this Vegas true crime story at our site:
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OTD in 1981, a deadly blaze broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton. The fire killed 8 guests and injured hundreds more. A 23-year-old busboy that worked at the Hilton was later convicted of starting the fire.
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The 1985 unsolved murder of a toddler while he played in his front yard hastened the decline of the Naked City neighborhood of Las Vegas.
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DNA testing may soon reveal the identity of the body found in a barrel at Lake Mead last year (and whether notorious mob enforcer Tony “the Ant” Spilotro was involved in the murder).
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Front page coverage of Bugsy Siegel’s murder from 1947 edition of the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, including an interview with Virginia Hill about an argument she and Siegel had at the Flamingo not long before his death.
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Our latest video looks at the time infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy spent working at a Las Vegas funeral home during the early 1960’s.
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The Topless Club with a Headless Owner: The History of the Crazy Horse Too
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