Celeste Flores Narvaez, sister of Deborah Flores Narvaez, speaks with a reporter at a shopping center at East Cheyenne Avenue and North Civic Center Avenue in North Las Vegas in 2010. (KMCannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Deborah Flores Narvaez’s sister, Celeste Flores Narvaez, posts a flyer featuring her sister near North Russian Olive Street and West Oak Island Drive in North Las Vegas in 2010. . (KMCannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The best and worst of Las Vegas history will be shown around the world starting this weekend with the debut of two documentary series.
First, “Sin City Murder” (7 p.m. Sunday on Oxygen) promises to depict “the dark underbelly of the evil goings-on on the glitzy Strip and the vast desert that surrounds it.”
Sunday’s premiere of “The Disappearance of a Showgirl” will focus on the death of “Fantasy” dancer Debbie Flores Narváez at the Luxor. The 31-year-old’s murder at the hands of a Cirque du Soleil dancer was the focus of the 2016 Lifetime movie Death of a Vegas Showgirl.
Upcoming episodes will talk about Esmeralda Gonzalez, a 24-year-old woman whose body was found wrapped in a concrete and wood structure in the desert about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, and Mike, an aspiring rapper who was murdered outside Tenaya in 2011. -The focus will be on Portaro. Creek Brewery. Cases covered in the series date back to at least 1983 and include the murder of Harry Wham, an entertainer who owned a keyboard lounge.
On a lighter note, “Vegas: The Story of Sin City” (10 p.m. Sunday, CNN) chronicles the rise of Las Vegas in four episodes, using plenty of archival footage of casinos and showrooms long ago reduced to rubble. I’m drawing. .
That includes entertainers like Wayne Newton, Paul Anka, Rich Little, and Sonny Charles, as well as UNLV’s David G. Schwartz, Michael Green, Claytie D. White, Mob Museum’s Jeff Schumacher, and former Interspersed with new interviews with local historians, reviews and more. Journal Entertainment Writer Mike Weatherford.
