Just three days ago, I was just driving past there. I remember looking off in that direction as I was heading back to California thinking "If I was a killer who wanted to dump a body without being noticed, would this be good place to turn off?". It looks like a moonscape when you look off in that direction. There is hardly even any vegetation.
I wasn't thinking of this case at the time, but Nipton Rd. would be the first turnoff after leaving the Whiskey Petes Casino toward California, and the last turnoff before starting a very long steep incline into the higher California desert. Back then, this was the only casino in the area. Since then, Buffalo Bills and the Primadonna (Now the Primm Valley Resort & Casino) have been built on the other side of the freeway. I wonder if maybe she was at Whiskey Petes with a significant other and was murdered in some type of domestic altercation, and was dumped out there for convenience.
I was thinking about the discussion of Zzyzx road on a different thread, so on my trip back to California I pulled off on Zzyzx road (a few turnoffs beyond the border), to look around. I snapped these photos. Nipton would be off in the distance to the left.
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Incidentally, the Primadonna casino had to change its name after it made national news about a famous murder that occurred there. Eighteen year old Jeremy Strohmeyer followed 7-year old Sherrice Iverson into the women's restroom and murdered her in one of the stalls.
I think of that case every time I see the Primm Valley Resort
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