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Caller's Story: The Brother's Body and Family Reaction

from The Smiley Face Killers · #132

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3 min

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The caller reveals his brother once discovered a dead body while floating the river at another Wisconsin campus, his mother's reaction to hearing both stories, and jokes about now being too out of shape to be a target.

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  • 1:04:17Caller kept the story of nearly being killed by smiley face killers from his mom to avoid worrying her.
  • 1:04:48Caller's mom brought up the time his brother found a dead body while floating down a Wisconsin river.
  • 1:05:14Brother and friends discovered a corpse hung up on a log while floating and had to flag down a touring mother and daughter to borrow their phone and call 911.
  • 1:05:50The prospective student who lent them her phone chose not to attend that school after the body discovery.
  • 1:06:13Caller's mom mentioned the body may have been another smiley face killer victim, which she'd already heard about before learning caller's own near-death experience.
  • 1:06:41Tim asks if the family has considered leaving Wisconsin given the drugging and body-finding incidents.
  • 1:07:11Caller threw away the coat he wore during the incident because he feared being recognized and targeted again.
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