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

THE SMILEY FACE KILLERS -part 2

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

Steph Young

Spirituality, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.3613 Ratings

🗓️ 26 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. “They go directly into the shallow water. And then they are all gone….. no ghost, no memories.….as if they never lived in the first place. And then they stay there; awake and afraid.” “The evil is rampant and deep and widespread. He was tortured, taken to the river and killed. Then his body was ‘positioned.’’  “Loaded in cargo van. Paid in dollars green.”  “We take what we need and leave. Understand this: This is necessary. Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on death feeds on life….”  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. ‘He is screaming, pleading and growling in raw, animalistic agony. In the background, a voice interrupts his screams and calmly tells him, in a cold, emotionless, detached voice, “Stop it.” “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? Todd Geib, Chris Jenkins, Joshua Guimond, Josh Szostak, Colin Ellis, Josh Snell, Brandon Swanson, the list goes on…. The Smiley Face Killers? Or just a Smiley Face Murder Theory? One gang….. or several… ? A group, or separate loners…. ? Serial Killers? or a Serial Killer Gang?

Transcript

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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.

0:34.1

Most of them are ruled as accidental drowning, sometimes suicide, but the events around

0:39.3

their disappearances leading up to them being found are in very many cases highly suspicious.

0:45.8

I'm going back now to 1998, when the New York Daily News featured three deaths in which the young

0:51.8

men were all ruled to have drowned. The newspaper said,

0:54.9

they are cases tinged with mystery that captured the sympathy of a city. When each vanished,

1:00.1

their parents conducted highly publicised searches for them. Three were found floating in the river,

1:05.8

with no apparent signs of trauma. How each entered the water has not been determined. My boy was murdered.

1:13.0

It wasn't an accident, said Gitty Bender. Her son Joshua was found in the Hudson River,

1:18.2

nearly two weeks after he'd left his Yeshiva University dorm. At the time, Robert Martin,

1:24.4

the Deputy Inspector of Police, did admit that he found the circumstances

1:28.4

strange. He said it is a little unusual to have three males in the river of the same age,

1:34.6

but he also said they had found no overlapping commonalities, other than that, although they

1:40.0

would continue to work it, he said. While the newspaper did contact the FBI, a spokesman for the FBI was quoted as saying

1:47.7

that they would not be involved in any of the investigations because, quote, there is no

1:52.3

evidence of a serial killer at work here.

1:54.9

It would seem then, at this stage, no one yet was considering it could be the work of a

2:00.1

group.

2:00.5

I mentioned earlier in the other podcast episode that Josh Stossack. age, no one yet was considering it could be the work of a group.

2:06.8

I mentioned earlier in the other podcast episode that Josh Dossack's father, another victim,

2:11.6

and the partner that he works with, who is a retired ex-federal agent,

2:16.7

and they've worked on these cases for many years, compiling dossiers and evidence.

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