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Wisconsin Cheese Shop and Discovering the Smiley Face Killers Article

from The Smiley Face Killers · #132

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3 min

Stuck in freezing Madison, Wisconsin, Tim gets guilted into buying $80 of cheese, then reads a Daily Beast article about the 'Smiley Face Killers' theory of a serial-killer gang murdering young men across the Midwest.

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  • 7:16Tim was in Wisconsin when a friend texted him a Daily Beast link about the smiley face killers.
  • 8:24He got beat on eighty dollars worth of cheese at a Wisconsin cheese shop after an elderly woman kept feeding him samples.
  • 9:10Tim was supposed to quit dairy and conspiracy theories but ended up reading about serial killers while eating black pepper bellavetano in his hotel room.
  • 9:37The article's premise: a shadowy gang targeting athletic, successful young men like him and Raymond, who are both community college graduates.
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smiley face killersThe Daily BeastMadison, WisconsinRay KumpNative American at Lincoln Memorial

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