Finding your father on Father's Day - 62 years later!

An American expat believes a body found in the drought-hit Lake Mead reservoir may be his father, who drowned in 1958 aged 22 and whose remains were never found.  

Todd Kolod thinks the body - one of two found in Callville Bay, on the Nevada side of the reservoir last month - may be that of his father Daniel Kolod.

Daniel fell from a speedboat that flipped when it struck by a wake during a fishing trip with a friend 64 years ago. His father was a mobster named Ruby Kolod, although there is no suggestion that Daniel's death was a result of foul play.

 

 His remains were never recovered despite searches by a helicopter and divers. A friend who was on the boat with Daniel also fell into the water, but was rescued and survived.  

Todd, who now lives in Ibiza, said his suspicions were heightened thanks to a photo of the body that was found - particularly a snap of a skull with missing teeth. That is because his late father wore dentures following a car crash which knocked his front teeth out.  

 

Todd said in an interview with KLAS that when he heard that remains were found in the Callville Bay section of Lake Mead his eyes 'bulged wide open.' Todd said that when his father Daniel Kolod loved to fish in Callville Bay. Todd said: 'He went out regularly. He ran out of fish to give people to.'

At the time, Todd was three years old. He says that his family told him that his father had 'went away,' and that he only learned the grim truth when he was older. 

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