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Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Smiley Face Killers – part 4 The Conclusion

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, History

4.3613 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Smiley Face Killers – part 4 – the conclusion Scores of young men have vanished without a trace, only to be found dead weeks or months later, in remote rivers or creeks, shallow ponds or canals, in areas that search parties have searched multiple times before; then later their bodies are discovered there, as though they have been placed there deliberately to be found. There is something very sinister happening to college-age men. It has been going on since the early ’90’s, and quite probably since before then. It isn’t stopping; it appears to be escalating. Young men attending college are going missing; the numbers are rising as they disappear in what can only be described as the most sinister and inexplicable circumstances.  Then they are found dead; always in water, often very shallow water. Very often however, they have not drowned. “I couldn’t get through to him. He couldn’t talk. He couldn’t tell me where he was. 8 minutes into the call there was suddenly this ghastly screaming. I started crying.” How does a young man end up dead in water that is only a couple of feet deep? Why can’t he get out of that water, even though he is not drunk? Why can’t he be found in that water, often for weeks when it is searched multiple times? Why would he go to the most remote body of water, in the opposite direction to the one in which he was heading? Why did his cell phone suddenly go dead after he said something disturbing? Why do many of them make desperate phone calls just moments before something happens to them? Why are some of them in such a state of terror or horror when they phone their parents or friends? Why does it always happen on a night out? How do they disappear from bars yet no-one sees them go? What are they seeing, in the final moments before their phone is cut off? Why are many missing one shoe? Why do few of them have any signs of injury or trauma on their body…? Who are the Smiley Face Killers? based on the book https://www.amazon.com/investigation-Horrifying-Smiley-Killers-Serial-ebook/dp/B01G0SWK0I

Transcript

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On February 6, 2016, the body of Ohio Wesleyan university freshman Luke Gabbard was found in a creek

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in Delaware. No one knows how he ended up in the water. Ohio Wesleyan News Journal, the transcript,

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writes,

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The crescent moon had risen in the sky when Luke and a friend wandered back from Clancy's pub. Only one would make it back to the campus.

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Luke was found dead in a muddy stream, flowing near the college campus.

0:42.9

His autopsy report says there were no obvious causes of death,

0:46.4

and his body showed no visible signs of trauma.

0:49.2

Toxicology requests at the time would take up to two months.

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The transcript says they carried out their own investigation into the timeline of events surrounding his death.

0:58.0

The night before, the freshman had made his pledge to the fraternity.

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On his last night alive, the following night he had been in the pub where, according to another new pledge of the fraternity who was with him,

1:10.0

he had been asked

1:11.4

to leave after being sick inside the pub. They left together, but on seeing a police car nearby,

1:16.8

they apparently split up and went separate ways, for some reason worried about the police

1:21.3

pulling them over for questioning. That was the last time anyone allegedly saw him alive.

1:26.8

As well as some victims drowning in very shallow water, other victims are found in areas one would think are completely inaccessible.

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7th of October 2010, officials confirmed that they'd recovered the body of missing Western University student Dwight Clark,

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who'd vanished 12 days earlier after leaving a party.

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He was discovered, about one kilometre from the in a log lagoon, which was gated and locked. His friend said he did not

1:52.1

appear drunk when he left. Why and how would he have got into that private property in the

1:58.0

first place? Oddly, a blank message was sent from his phone

2:01.9

shortly after he disappeared. The location the message came from was an entirely different

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