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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.
#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.
#15, how dare you inject facts in this mass of hyperbole? Don’t you know what web site this is? Now you need to make a post blaming this on Bush and/or Halliburton.
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.
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.