rant · moment 24 of 27
The Smiley Face Killers Follow-Up
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
5 min
Tim recaps his prior Smiley Face Killers episode, criticizes a bad Oxygen network reality show on the topic, and describes the researchers behind the theory as unreliable self-promoters.
- Tim recaps the smiley face killers episode and its theory of a serial killer gang drowning college-educated men in rivers across the country.
- The Oxygen Network show on the subject was poorly made and damaged the credibility of Tim's own investigation.
- Tim found a credible potential victim in Wisconsin and had him on the show, which became one of their most successful episodes.
- Tim emailed the three men who've been pushing this theory for 20 years—one accused of sexual assault, another who lied to a college, and Kevin Gannon, who allegedly exposed himself during the investigation.
- One of the three is Leigh Gilbertson, a St. Cloud professor; Tim suspects these three losers might be killing kids to get an Oxygen show.
- Tim believes something is genuinely wrong with the smiley face killer deaths—kids found two miles from bars in February don't walk by icy rivers randomly.
- Tim mocks the Oxygen reality show format by imagining it paired with overweight housewives discussing Weight Watchers points while covering young boys being killed.
- Tim emailed Leigh Gilbertson after noticing he wasn't on the next season of Oxygen, following up on their previous correspondence about waiting for the network.
- These three men have been dragging parents along for 20 years with no convictions, arrests, or meaningful progress beyond reclassifying one or two cases as homicides.
- Despite two decades of work by these investigators, only one case has been reclassified, which Tim considers minimal achievement.
smiley face killersOxygenLeigh GilbertsonKevin GannonWisconsinSt. Cloud