Caller · moment 14 of 21
Caller's Story: The Mystery Girl and Contacting Detectives
from The Smiley Face Killers · #132
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7 minCaller
Tim presses the caller on the suspicious girl who lured him out and vanished, why he never went to police or got a toxicology test, and how he eventually connected with Gannon's detective team via a Facebook group.
- 46:33Caller met a 22-year-old girl at a bar who introduced him to five large guys around age 27.
- 47:40He had one beer that he left unattended while playing pool, and the girl later invited him to another bar despite ignoring him while her friends were around.
- 49:03Tim asks if the caller went to police or got a toxicology test to check for GHB, a date rape drug.
- 49:22Caller convinced himself he got drunk enough to do it on his own and didn't report it because he was underage and feared underage drinking charges.
- 50:03He worried that asking for surveillance footage from the dam would expose him trespassing and getting busted for underage drinking.
- 50:48Tim notes that if the caller had died, police would have reviewed the tape, but it had been three to four weeks and tapes are typically erased within two weeks.
- 51:14Detectives told the caller he was extremely lucky to be alive, given how narrowly he escaped falling into water that could have killed him.
- 52:11Caller spoke with detectives in charge of an investigation who said finding the girl would be a lost cause.
- 52:33Those detectives have a new show on the Oxygen Network about unexplained disappearances and developed the theory about the so-called smiley face killers.
- 53:05Tim asks how the caller found the detectives and what came from their conversation.