The Smiley Face Killers Part 2: Who is abducting, torturing & murdering college-aged men in the US & UK?

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

Steph Young

History, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Smiley Face Killers: Part 2 Who is abducting, torturing & murdering college-aged men in the US and UK? The cryptic graffiti left at a scene. For the past 20 years, hundreds of college-aged men have disappeared, silently, soundlessly, vanishing without trace, only to be found some time later, dead in the water, but with no water in their lungs. They did not drown. Many are still missing… Who are The Smiley Face Killers? These men are abducted, held for a period of time, murdered, then disposed of in bodies of water. The original investigators found graffiti near the scenes, frequently with the Smiley Face symbol… In almost every case, the authorities have ruled the deaths ‘accidental’… but something far darker is at work here….and it isn’t stopping. A long history and a growing number of chilling unsolved disappearances and murders of young men in cities, who vanish for several days, or several weeks, and are later found in water. The Smiley Face Killers: Who is Abducting, Torturing and Murdering College-Aged Men in the US, Canada and the UK? The Secrets of the Smiley Face Serial Killers…. The Smiley Face Killers: Who is abducting, torturing & murdering college-aged men in the US and UK? An investigation, from bestselling author Steph Young

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0:00.0	So in following on, this is kind of a part two in the series, looking into the number of young men that are being found after disappearing, sometimes for days or weeks or months, and then being found in water, with no real explanation as to how or why they got there.
0:24.0	Most of them are ruled as accidental drowning,
0:30.2	sometimes suicide, but the events around their disappearances leading up to them being found are in very many cases highly suspicious. I'm going back now to 1998,
0:40.7	when the New York Daily News featured three deaths in which the young men were all ruled to have drowned.
0:45.5	The newspaper said,
0:47.4	they are cases tinged with mystery
0:49.2	that captured the sympathy of a city.
0:52.2	When each vanished,
0:53.4	their parents conducted highly publicised searches for them.
0:58.2	Three were found floating in the river, with no apparent signs of trauma. How each entered the water
1:06.2	has not been determined. My boy was murdered, it wasn't an accident, said Gitty Bender.
1:15.5	Her son Joshua was found in the Hudson River,
1:18.3	nearly two weeks after he'd left his yeshiva university dorm.
1:23.6	At the time, Robert Martin, the Deputy Inspector of Police, did admit that he found the circumstances strange.
1:33.3	He said it is a little unusual to have three males in the river of the same age,
1:39.3	but he also said they had found no overlapping commonalities, other than that,
1:45.9	although they would continue to work it, he said.
1:50.1	While the newspaper did contact the FBI,
1:53.6	a spokesman for the FBI was quoted as saying
1:56.4	that they would not be involved in any of the investigations
1:59.3	because, quote, there is no evidence of a serial killer at work here.
2:04.7	It would seem, then, at this stage,
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