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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.
I just finished reading a book of future predictions on America and I liked to die when I saw this story. Check out http://www.conservativeoutcomes.com to see some of the predictions this psychic makes about America. Yep, you guessed it he talks about 2 serial killers, one in the East and one in the West. Looks like maybe we found the Eastern sicko. If the Western portion of the prediction comes true there is not doubt about it.
“Now you need to make a post blaming this on Bush and/or Halliburton”
Bad analogy. Bush and/or Halliburton wouldn’t know a fact if it bit them in the backside!
I have been reading up on this and have yet to see one angle discussed. There was something similar and yet opposite in America’s past that occurred across the South. Lynching’s of Black males were conducted by a “gang” that operated in cells…they were called the KKK. It’s happened before…food for thought?
the torture could be by water-boarding. Oh,sorry that ain’t torture so the feds say, the subjects just spill their guts because the water feels nice in their nose. no kidding water-boarding is an effective way to lead to the next connected victim what ever the connection might be. i am sure the smiley face drawings are a good clue to the criminal gang. the style of the drawing might suggest a certain group. don’t look for much help from the feds they have been hiring these thugs in the anti real american like union men fight.
really? this topic has turned into some sort of argument?! wow, you all suck. get a fucking clue and grow up!
my brother joel thomas saunders was found dead in a creek in laffette IN. on march 12 08. the police are trying to say he just walked in the woods and fell in the creek and drowned. i dont think so. the smily face murders sound alot like what happened to him please google his name and read about what happened to him. we dont know who to talk to or what to do to find out what happend to him. god knows the police are doing nothing. anyone who can help or with any imformation on this please contact me at (318)272-6020. or jbrent2001@yahoo.com. if somebody did something to him they need to pay for it. please HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry I’m skeptical. The police report on this case indicates that from the start the family resorted to psychics who likely formed the basis of their predetermination of murder. The family then paid a seperate water recovery team to perform test and was even told to spend $100,000 by another person to make a model of the river. At this time, and until they actually release some viable information, inclinded to question the credibilty of the former “out of funds” police officers pushing this story. http://www.futureosophy.blogspot.com
The facts here seem to point to a hoax of some kind. How do we know that details like the smiley faces or graffiti weren’t added later by investigators who want attention or recognition?
bobbo, is making a valid point,regardless of how mean-spirited.
if these killings are real it would appear that if done by more than one,it definitely speaks of a clash of classes. amodedoma point of there are no real victims is somewhat contorted by i understand his relevancy. he saying that in a corrupt world no one is safe and those that assume that things are, are generally those that are benefiting indirectly of course from this corruption. this does not legitimize this thing happening but it does say something and should not taken so lightly.
The killers are simply copycatting, what better way to get away with murder then make it look like a bunch of other people did it. thats why they don’t get caught, there is no communication between them, they are just copycatting murders
Why are all of you taking what amodedoma said either to heart or out of context. We arn’t talking about poor innocent helpless kittens that were rounded up thrown into a bag and chucked into the river, it’s drunk college kids that party’s on foot and by themselves. That just reeks of intelligence. Not that they deserve per say, but that are responsible for their own actions. They got trashed and they left.
And as far as a group or “club” killers. What are you smoking? Any criminologist you present this to would laugh at you. First serial Killers don’t work in organised groups. Those are called gangs. Secound there’s no motive, no evidence and no discenable crime sceene. So if they had an idea or real evidence, there would be suspects and motives and REAL Detectives on the case. These two guys are retired and have way to much free time. 40-60 murders over 10 years in 25 cites 11 states. wheres the math on that. It sounds more plausible, that beaucse of the rate of vitims found, the varried locations and time frame it would be one person in a van traveling around to college towns across the Northwest killing people. Not a group or vast conspiracy. BUT becuase of the varried “faces” and “streetnames” it’s too inconsistant. Is it to much to just think, hey they got drunk and wandered into a river. ONLY ONE was found to murdered, but no crime sceene evidence or suspects have been found in the case.
OK so if you don’t think this is murder ask yourself this:
How many times have you had a few drinks and woke up is a body of water?
I’ve had some nights of drinking and never once ended up in a lake or river.
What we don’t know is the common denominator of these guys that are getting killed. I’m not suggesting they know each other but what activities or goups do they have in common. I belive the investigators know but have not divulged it as yet.
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The serial killers are just sick people,that desperly need help.
I grew up in La Crosse WI, have run C.C, went to UWL and have come out of just about every bar sloshed. There was not one person who came up floating that I ever heard the 21 yrs I lived there until the early 90’s. College kids dont actually walk down to a river and drown themselves in large numbers and all the folks who live there know it..
No network of serial killers? HA! THAT is laughable! Of course there are networks, especially with the info/internet age. It is a known FACT that serial killers in the 70’s and 80’s communicated and even shared information with one another; Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas knew one another…Ted didn’t think much of Henry, but they were acquainted with one another and knew of each others crimes., they both said so in interviews years later. There are other networks too, trucker networks of killers and abductors, even a few ‘rogue killers’ in law enforcement [GASP!] The green river killer was in fact more than one person…the recent long island killings are two people…believe me or not, it matters little. I have been researching this subject for 30 years now…oh yes…some ARE working in collusion! Law enforcement had better step-up their game and realize this grim reality, as they are getting worse at catching these killers in this last decade and they are proliferating!