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Burned body found in Henderson desert

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Richard Brian

Henderson Police officers investigate the area near where a body was found Friday morning in a desert area near Larson Lane and Rome Street.

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Published Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 | 12:09 p.m.

Updated Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 | 3:20 p.m.

Body found in Henderson desert

Henderson Police officers investigate the area near where a body was found Friday morning in a desert area near Larson Lane and Rome Street. Launch slideshow »

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Henderson Police officers are investigating a dead and burned body discovered today in a desert area south of the Henderson Executive Airport as a homicide.

The body, found by off-duty police officers doing training about 8:30 a.m. Friday, was so badly burned investigating officers could not tell its gender, said Henderson Police Lt. Troy Hatch.

Mounted police officers helped officers on the ground investigate the scene, which is near the intersection of Larson Lane and Rome Street.

This is the third burned body discovered in a desert setting in the past two weeks.

On Nov. 11, Henderson police contacted Metro Police about two charred bodes discovered by an ATV driver in the southwestern valley. Homicide Lt. Lew Roberts said the couple found in a burned car were a boyfriend and a girlfriend in their mid-20s. They were both shot in the back of the head, execution style, he said.

Neither the man nor the woman found near a detention basin near State Route 160 and Fort Apache Road has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Police have no suspects in the case and are working to find a motive for the slayings. The car was a Cadillac, but police do not know the make or the year because the vehicle was so badly burned.

Lt. Troy Hatch said it appears there is no connection between the dead couple and the body discovered in Henderson on Friday.

Officer Todd Rasmussen, spokesman for the police department, said the investigation is just getting underway.

The desert scape in the area is marked by dirt roads and piles of rock. It appeared that the body had been dumped, police said.

This is the third homicide in Henderson this year.

Home News photographer Richard Brian contributed to this report.

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