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I first heard about this story last night on a late night talk show. Why it hasn’t been reported nationally is a mystery to me. Please take a few minutes to read it. Its quite involved and there are many links to what may be one of the worst cases of serial murder this country has seen. The website is slow due to heavy traffic, but well worth the wait.
Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it. “Chris was abducted in a cargo van,” she said. “He was driven around Minneapolis for hours and tortured. He was taken down to the Mississippi River and he was murdered. And after that, his body was positioned and taken to a different spot and then to a different point in the Mississippi River,” she said. Gannon and Duarte say they’ve discovered a link between Jenkins’ death and the drownings of at least 40 other men in 25 cities in 11 different states.
It began in New York
The investigation started 11 years ago in New York when then-Sgt. Gannon made a promise to the parents of Patrick McNeill. Patrick McNeill was last seen at a New York City bar in 1997. His body was found 50 days later, 11 miles downriver. “We knew it wasn’t suicide,” said Patrick McNeill’s mother Jackie McNeill. “It was one of those things where he walked out and was never seen again.” One of the only things comforting the McNeills is Gannon, a decorated officer with a long history in the New York City Police Department. “I told them I would never give up on the case,” Gannon told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. When Gannon retired, he devoted his life to keeping his promise to the McNeill family.
“We’ve been doing this on our own, our own finances,” Gannon explained. “We’ve never taken a penny from any of the families. I personally have mortgaged my own home to investigate this.”According to Gannon’s ally, Duarte, this is almost ‘a perfect crime’ because the water washes away any physical evidence and there are never any witnesses. Almost all of the men are last seen by friends leaving a bar or college party. Local police have investigated the deaths and the FBI has even taken a look at the cases.
In every case except for the Jenkins case, local law enforcement has ruled the death an accident.
“I think it is a serial killer, but not one individual. I would just say, a group of individuals, probably located in more than one state,” Duarte said, adding that he thinks they may kill again. While most local investigations focused on where a body was recovered, Gannon and Duarte tried to figure out where the body went into the river. City after city, when they’d find the spot where the body went in, they would find something else: The symbol of a smiley face. “It’s very disturbing,” Duarte said. The paint color and size of the face varies, but the detectives are convinced that it’s a sick signature the killers leave behind.
Maybe they owed money to Wal-Mart?
J/P=?
Whats the world coming to ?
It used to be young girls they went after
– now its young boys
These themes are getting stranger and stranger and even more specific
What next ? Young Asian or Polynesian men in Arizona only on a Tuesday in July ?
Where is the FBI?
Even more curious, when is the book you know these detectives are writing going to be published?
#1 – John Paradox
Yep, it shouldn’t be too hard to identify the suspect.
C.I.A
C.I.A.
Now, U gonna storm troop my house?
So, if these people are being tortured, then how on earth could even a blind guy come to the conclusion that the cause of death was drowning?
Tortured with chicken feathers perhaps?
“Chris was abducted in a cargo van,” she said. “He was driven around Minneapolis for hours and tortured.”
Really??? How do they know this???
I call shenanigans on this one..!!!
University studies mark a dividing line for class division in America. I’ve been dis’d by university assholes who think their degree demonstrates their superiority. While in the military I was saluting guys younger than me that were made officials for their diplomas.
I got no sympathy for the victims or the agressors. Now if it were a conspiracy that murdered lawyers… 🙂
I checked Snopes.com and didn’t find anything. Maybe this is real?
Amodedoma (#8),
So you have a chip on your shoulder because you didn’t attend college. As a result, since they attended college it is okay to murder them?
You are a very sick person and probably should check yourself into an institution.
#8, But then you probably have a chip on your shoulder about mental institutions as well as institutions of higher learning.
Why not just go get a degree and relax. You right fairly well, you can do it!
You also write fairly well
I want to know why the FBI isn’t on this. Too busy with the ‘terrorists’? This sounds like a major terror threat to me!
40 murders makes this “the worst case of serial murder this country has seen”.
Try doing better research…
http://tinyurl.com/3bayz7
Henry Lee Lucas
proven victims: 11
possible victims: 2-200 admitted to 3,000
Billy Gohl
proven victim: 2
possible victims: 40-140
Randy Steven Kraft
proven victims: 67
possible victims: 67-100
Gary Leon Ridgway
proven victims: 71
Ted Bundy
proven victims: 30
possible victims: 100+
Gary Leon Ridgway
proven victims: 71
Belle Gunness
proven victims: 40
Amy Archer-Gilligan
proven victims: 5
possible victims: 48
Charles Cullen
proven victims: 18
possible victims: 40
#14–JVP==your list is all single operators. Maybe the implied condition is “the club.”
Other than groups associated with the government or sports, what clubs have illegally killed more people?
#14. JPV- The investigators believe upwards of 100 murdered, but feel they can tie in 40-60 directly to the “Club”. Its the club aspect that is most chilling. Try doing better research.
🙂
It sure is nice to see a place where people can still come to and get all worked up about who the best serial killer is outside of jail.
McCullough said:
#14. JPV- The investigators believe upwards of 100 murdered, but feel they can tie in 40-60 directly to the “Club”. Its the club aspect that is most chilling. Try doing better research.
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That still puts it on par with several of the cases that I mentioned.
#11 ethanol – I meant no offense, I meerly presented a possible motive to the ‘club’ – I by no means meant it as some kind of defense of their actions. My personal experiences with the american class system ended when I emigrated to europe 20 years ago. Now I deal with the european class system. Here a ‘higher education’ is a rather mediocre commodity, almost anyone can afford one.
If my dislike of lawyers were cause for being institutionalized the institutions would be quite full indeed.
#21–amodedoma==read your post #9 again. Your constant use of the pronoun “I” makes a person with even a high school degree think you are talking about yourself?
You sure your achievements aren’t being mocked by fifth graders?
#22 Bobbo – That’s right, the ‘I’ pronoun, those were my perceptions, my experiences. Doesn’t mean I think those things justify murdering innocent kids. Having said that, there are many who’ve had had similar perceptions, similar experinces. The class system is woven into all human societies, in some cases the frustration this causes can result in whole scale revolution. Is it that hard to believe that a few sick individuals vent their frustration violently on the innocent.
The Countrywide Union of the Serial Killers? hmm… that’s anew.
Someone mentioned lawyers (after Shakespeare?).
The ‘problem’ is, if they’d go after lawyers they know they’d have hard time to get any decent lawyer once caught.
But then lawyers are usually such money-driven assholes, that maybe they wouldn’t any problem to get best legal help after all, who knows.
#9:
Nice troll, jackass. Clearly the victims deserved to be murdered for going to college.
#23–amodedoma==so when you wrote: “I got no sympathy for the victims or the agressors.”
Why no sympathy for victims chosen for no offense other than being vulnerable?
There is a Japanese film Orinocco about serial killers who wear smiley face masks.
#26 Bobbo – As with most innocent victims they always seem to find themselves in a vulnerable moment. It’s common sense that agressors are predators that seek out convenient victims. It’s a dangerous world always has been always will be, and if in the expression of individual freedom one allows themselves to become vulnerable then they must accept responsibility for the consequences. If I were to cross the street in a drunken stupor and get hit by a speeding car, that’s my bad.
Right. This is Bush’s fault too.
#28–amodedoma==when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Any fair reading of your initial post shows you to be taking a very immoral position. Rather than admit you got off on a wrong tangent, you try to defend the position.
You would learn a lot more to simply take a mulligan and start over.
Heres the proof:
You say: “If I were to cross the street in a drunken stupor and get hit by a speeding car, that’s my bad.” /// Correct and you would not be innocent in the same way a person walking to work would be.