THE SMILEY FACE KILLERS -part 2
Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young
Steph Young
4.3 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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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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