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Breaking Down the Smiley Face Killer Pattern
from The Smiley Face Killers · #132
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3 minTim details the pattern of drownings — athletic college men vanishing after nights out, found later in rivers with inconsistent time-of-death evidence — and compares it to his own drug-fueled but drowning-free youth on Long Island.
- 10:20Young men fitting a pattern: out drinking, separated from friends, found weeks later in nearby rivers.
- 10:31Tim's initial thought: drunk people fall in rivers, but the specifics get strange.
- 10:46The victims leave bars with friends, walk two miles in wrong direction, end up in water—coroners say they'd only been dead days despite missing weeks.
- 11:13Tim grew up on Long Island surrounded by water where nobody drowned, despite heavy drug and alcohol use among his peers.
- 11:50The victims share a type: attractive, athletic college kids who disappeared after nights out.
- 12:14Tim starts emailing detectives, book authors, and dark web contacts trying to solve it himself.
- 12:25He contrasts his obsessive investigation style with normal people who have wives, kids, and jobs that prevent going crazy.
- 12:42Tim applies DaVinci Code energy to the theory, considering MKUltra and government abductions of the victims.
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