a tiktok went viral about this, it’s been happening in other major cities as well
a kind of car seems to pull up and offer rides to young adult males who may be drunk or coming home from drinking, they end up drowned some time later
someone was posting who this happened to who (approached by car) then did research about it
I don’t think there is foul play found on the bodies, so it seems like a weird fascination with drowning people?
it’s not known if it’s a connected group or what the motive is
alternative theory I think is that these guys just get drunk and go swimming and drown
nicknamed smiley face I think due to some smiley graffiti found near the places:
Right - it’s a very wild situation, nonetheless.
Earlier in the yaer, there was talk of this happening also in Austin, TX, but authorities have denied it.
I think since some of them were apparently chloroformed or ethanol’d, though, there is a chance that some of it could be the work of a serial killer.
Let’s also remember: police have motive to deny that crimes have taken place.
nicknamed smiley face I think due to some smiley graffiti found near the places:
I heard the author of a book on this theory, perhaps even the inventor of it, give his pitch, and it was not persuasive. He was smart, though, by stating that only some of these potential murders are even necessarily connected.
What people also forget is that a smiley face being etched into some railing or spraypainted somewhere is … way too common. Smiley faces are one of the most comon doodles in the world, and, especially in the 1990s, were a huge iconic symbol you saw everywhere.
