The Return of The Smiley Face Killers

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

Steph Young

Spirituality, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.3 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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. “The evil is rampant and deep and widespread. He was tortured, taken to the river and killed. Then his body was ‘positioned.’’ “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 ….?

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0:00.0	I've put together all of the podcasts that I did on the Smiley Face Killers.
0:18.4	I didn't realize actually I'd only put them on my Patreon podcast. So I put them all together into one episode. They're based on the Smiley Face Killers. I didn't realize actually I'd only put them on my Patreon podcast.
0:21.9	So I put them all together into one episode. They're based on the books that I did, dead in the
0:25.9	water and the Smiley Face Killers' books, and the research that I started back in about 2014.
0:32.5	And the phenomenon seems to be continuing. The killings, I mean.
0:37.3	Dozens, in fact hundreds 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 that search parties have searched multiple times before then later their bodies are discovered there, as though they've been
0:55.5	placed there deliberately to be found. I first started looking into these cases about six years ago,
1:02.0	but I first heard of them when I listened to Coast to Coast A.M., a journalist called Christy Peel
1:07.6	was on, talking about these cases with the host Ian Punnett.
1:11.6	She had been investigating the disappearance and subsequent death of a young man in the Midwest
1:17.4	who'd been found in a pond or being upright in the water, but he was dead.
1:23.1	Well, that's not how you die.
1:24.9	Well, it seems that around the same time, New York police detective Kevin Gannon was investigating
1:30.3	the strange death of a student called Patrick McNeil.
1:34.3	When he looked into this case, he soon found that there were up to 40 other young men
1:39.3	who had also disappeared and been found dead in the water, just like that victim. Kevin Gannon, once he retired
1:46.1	with his former partner, Duarte, went around the country, searching for the evidence to prove
1:52.1	that there were more than a few victims who all disappeared in the same way and were all found
1:57.5	dead in the water. Sometimes they disappeared on the same night,
2:01.7	but hundreds of miles away from each other.
2:03.8	The name, the Smiley-Face killers,
2:05.7	derives from the graffiti that the detective said they found
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