On November 20, 1995, a couple hiking near Lake Mead found the body of a young man around 3:30 p.m. He was identified as 21-year-old Benjamin Ernest Parker Jr, a Las Vegas resident who had last been seen by a friend on November 18, 1995, at that friend’s home. Investigators determined Parker had been shot and died at the remote location near the 10.5-mile marker of Lake Shore Drive in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Interviews with Parker’s wife and friends led detectives to learn he may have been involved with street gangs and illicit drugs, a backdrop that investigators explored while the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Section handled the case. No suspect has been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

Anyone with information about Benjamin Parker, his movements in mid-November 1995, or who might have been in the Lake Mead area that day is asked to come forward.