Nearly 200 bodies have been pulled from Houston's bayous since 2017.

City leaders say it's all a tragic coincidence,

but with 27 deaths this year alone and five bodies found in as many days,

just in five days, many are asking, is something darker lurking beneath Houston's bayou's surfaces?

Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests

in all of true crime. Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SDS Nation?

Welcome to Survive and the Survivor.

This is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime.

And every once in a while, we bring back a legendary guest who is here tonight.

We're going deep into the waters of Houston, Texas this evening.

Might be a scary place. A lot of people

think it is where fear seems to be spreading faster than the current itself. According to data

obtained by KPRC2, the local affiliate out of Houston, as well as the daily mail, according to them,

189 bodies have been recovered from the city's swampy

bayous since just 2017. I mean, think about it. That's nearly 200 human beings, mothers, father,

sons, daughters, in the case of one of our guests, it's a cousin pulled from the same waters

that snake through America's fourth largest city.

Officials insist this is not the work of a serial killer.

The mayor is saying no go there.

But with 75 deaths marked unexplained, 17 classified as murders and nearly 40% undetermined families are not buying it.

Before I introduce the best guess, a note from me.

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