Post by cypher on Aug 17, 2017 17:10:23 GMT
Have just come across a documentary about, 'The Smiley Face Killers', which piqued my interest. Never heard of it before, and thought of this thread.
Over the past decade or so, there have been a spate of college-aged men who have turned up accidentally drowned across the East coast, and Mid-west, of America.
They all seem to have a commonality to the deaths - young men at college, athletic, that had gone drinking, before being separated from their drinking friends, disappearing, and then turning up dead some time later, a month or more, having 'accidentally drowned', with some being found with a piece of smiley face graffiti nearby.
A theory has been espoused, that there is a group of serial killers, possibly chatting, and swapping stories on the internet, who get sexual satisfaction from kidnapping their victims, holding them captive, whilst waterboarding them, and then eventually dumping them in rivers.
At first glance, this seems a little far-fetched - serial killers are usually solitary and not part of a 'gang', smiley faces are probably the most ubiquitous piece of graffiti in the world, and that if you look hard enough near any crime scene, you'd probably find a smiley face graffiti nearby.
Yet this documentary, although not really professionally made, but made by a young filmmaker, is very eerie indeed, because in the course of making the documentary over two years, he went missing in upstate New York in 2013, whilst pursuing a lead.
Here is a link to the documentary: The Smiley Face Killers
What are your thoughts?
Over the past decade or so, there have been a spate of college-aged men who have turned up accidentally drowned across the East coast, and Mid-west, of America.
They all seem to have a commonality to the deaths - young men at college, athletic, that had gone drinking, before being separated from their drinking friends, disappearing, and then turning up dead some time later, a month or more, having 'accidentally drowned', with some being found with a piece of smiley face graffiti nearby.
A theory has been espoused, that there is a group of serial killers, possibly chatting, and swapping stories on the internet, who get sexual satisfaction from kidnapping their victims, holding them captive, whilst waterboarding them, and then eventually dumping them in rivers.
At first glance, this seems a little far-fetched - serial killers are usually solitary and not part of a 'gang', smiley faces are probably the most ubiquitous piece of graffiti in the world, and that if you look hard enough near any crime scene, you'd probably find a smiley face graffiti nearby.
Yet this documentary, although not really professionally made, but made by a young filmmaker, is very eerie indeed, because in the course of making the documentary over two years, he went missing in upstate New York in 2013, whilst pursuing a lead.
Here is a link to the documentary: The Smiley Face Killers
What are your thoughts?