CLASSIC: The Smiley Face Murder Conspiracy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Could a group of serial murderers be kidnapping, drugging and drowning young men across the United States? Scores of young male college students have been found dead in what law enforcement calls accidental drownings -- but a team of retired detectives believe there's something more sinister at work. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they dive into the strange, twisting story of the Smiley Face Murders -- the fact, the fiction, the controversy and more, in tonight's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Fellow conspiracy realist, friends and neighbors,
0:03.6	tonight's classic episode may not be appropriate for all listeners.
0:08.1	The headline, simply put,
0:09.8	could a group of serial murderers be kidnapping and drowning young men
0:14.6	across the entirety of the United States?
0:17.1	Yeah, I'm remembering like pools were involved in this one.
0:21.1	Bodies of water, for sure.
0:22.5	Yeah.
0:22.8	But weren't there pools?
0:23.6	There weren't pools?
0:24.7	I think it's more lakes, rivers.
0:27.4	Okay.
0:27.8	I remember a graffiti situation, like where they were tagging this smiley face.
0:33.1	And in my mind, I'm picturing one in like a drained pool, but I could be.
0:36.4	Maybe it was like a canal or something.
0:38.8	I think it was a canal.
0:40.0	There's also the Manchester Pusher.
0:42.7	We kept talking about this specific episode while we were making that one.
0:47.2	That's right.
0:47.7	That's right.
0:48.3	There are parallels.
0:49.3	And this is not to be confused with the happy face killer, a series that both ben and i worked on which is also good and now a
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