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Sixty years ago, the grisly killings of the Riviera Hotel’s president and his wife stunned Las Vegas — and would haunt the casino industry for a generationThe ranch-style home at 1115 Monte Vista in the upscale Encanto neighborhood of Phoenix was quiet when the housekeeper arrived just before noon on Wednesday, December 3, 1958. High blood pressure and a bad heart kept Mrs. Pearl Ray from working full-time, but she enjoyed cleaning and cooking for Gustave “Gus” Greenbaum and his wife, Bess. Greenbaum was president of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, but when he returned frequently to Ph...

Las Vegas Weekly A casino executive mysteriously disappears. Hikers find a body in the desert. An ignition key sets off a car bomb. Fortunately, these are stories from Las Vegas ’ past, not its present. But mob-related murders—some solved, others enduring mysteries—still loom large.  “There ’s a lot of mythology surrounding organized crime, ” says Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum in Downtown Las Vegas.  “One of the reasons for that is it can be hard to know exactly what happened; the mob was not very good at keeping notes . … A l...