Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

Today you get a little taste of what it's like to be a Patreon member and enjoy a big fat bonus

episode because why the fuck not? Actually because we're all quarantined and losing our fucking

minds but it's fine, we're fine, everything's fine. Earlier this week I gave you the joy

of the butte case where I told you I'd run across countless other men who had died in very

similar situations so I did a little digging and I put a little something together for you.

You're literally in forced hibernation and don't give a single fuck about my small talk so let's dive in.

A lot of people have talked about the smiley face killer theory, someone or someone's thought

to be out roaming the streets attacking young healthy men and throwing them into rivers,

leaving a spray-painted smiley face signature behind close to the scene. However I want to steer

clear from that exact pattern because I think there are some more realistic ones to take a look at.

The spray-painted smiley faces that have been found don't all look the same and frankly if you

handed me a can of spray paint, ask me to tag a bridge, you'd either get a dick or a smiley face

so the smiley face is a little too inclusive and also a little too exclusive for this research.

Same subject matter to an extent but a little more pattern and a little less doodling.

This all being said the websites for some of these smiley face potential victims were a huge

resource for this episode namely footprints at the rivers edge and vans homes.com so if you're

ever bored and curious or are a college aged male looking for nightmares give those a little

clicky click they are a great starting point but let's get to our first case. Of all the victims

I researched and compared Ryan Getz was the first one I think really fits the total pattern here.

He was 21 happy and healthy and was celebrating a hard on New Year's Eve of 1997 in East

Lansing, Michigan. After some drinking he decided he was going to go visit his girlfriend at the

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