Posted on 03/22/2024 11:32:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sad and prayers to his friends and family.
Has anyone else here read or heard that criminologists have looked into the theory that serial killer(s) might target drunken college kids leaving bars near rivers and shove them in to drown in a manner that would pass as accidental? Don’t recall a specific case, maybe it was a situation where more of these were happening than statistically plausible and that caught law enforcements eyes. Also washes trace evidence away I would reckon. Creepy.
Smiley face killer. Fits the MO.
He was apparently drunk when he came in. They served him one drink and then asked him to leave................
Is this one of those spring break f-ups?
It's the 1% of youth drinkers that drink WAY too much, act stupid and win stupid prizes.
I recall hearing those Smiley Face stories on Art Bell’s radio show. Extremely creepy, that the killers have not been identified and caught. I don’t think those deaths were the work of one person.
That’s why, back in my day, the US MIL ingrained a buddy system amongst peers to see to it that each other returned safely to the base/barracks, as youngsters are in a mindset- bulletproof.
Says he had a shirt on. Hmmmm.
In Austin, TX there have been many young men found in the river, known as Town Lake, aka—Lady Bird Lake, in the past few years. I do not recall that any of the cases were solved.
I think the city simply wrote off the deaths as misguided homeless men.... Makes one wonder.
It is certainly plausible and perhaps most often true that intoxicated young people who stumble out of bars in the wee hours and walk home, etc, near rivers sometimes fall in and quietly drown. What I was posting earlier was that some statistical anomalies caught some criminologists eye and the postulated that a serial killer or killers might be using this method of death by misadventure to cover for their giving intoxicated pedestrians a hard shove into rivers to likely drown. Don’t know what ever came of the speculation. I also surmise it came after a certain are experienced more of these than they ever should by chance.
Smiley face killer. Fits the MO.
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Federal agencies got blanket warranty to search for all cell phone pings by the capitol that day, then I should think they could find pings around these cities at the known times and find a common one.
But then again, you got to have priorities. A serial killer isn’t a deep state priority. Covering for certain protestors and persecuting other ones definitely is.
Me thinks someone may be taking it upon themselves to winnow the gene pool a bit. I would laugh it off as a coincidence or several but then I remembered the original movie ‘The Mechanic’ with Charles Bronson and talk of how the best hitmen never got caught because their murders were ruled accidents or suicides and they were never looked for as murder suspects since there were no “murders” occurring.
I was thinking the same.
Those incidents have been clustered around Rainey Street, a nightlife area popular with college students.
He was wearing a distinctive shirt - - one side black, the other side tan.
A sad ending to the search but not unexpected. I feel so bad for his family and friends.
“What I was posting earlier was that some statistical anomalies caught some criminologists eye and the postulated that a serial killer or killers might be using this method of death by misadventure to cover for their giving intoxicated pedestrians a hard shove into rivers to likely drown.”
The perfect murder, for murders sake.
There’s no CCTV, witnesses passers by... plus all of his contents were in his pockets so the only logical summation they can come up with, without a bruise or some other forensic discovery, is that he simply fell into the water while very intoxicated.
Occam’s razor. However, beginning in the 20th century, logic, pragmatism, and especially probability theory have become more popular among investigators.
In this particular case the forensics forced a focused hypothesis based on probability theory. In the event it was a sophomoric prank gone wrong, a guilt ridden conscience could produce a confession or an eyewitness to come forward at some point in the future.
oh but he was with his frat brothers....iows...he was with an elitist group of drunks that carry on personal responsibilty for anything or anybody....they’re “elite”...
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