Smiley Face Murder Club
I'm sure I've talked about the La Crosse Serial Killer before. Even my mother knew about it when I moved to La Crosse back in 2000 and she warned me that young men were getting drowned in the Mississippi River when they walked home alone drunk (ahem). When I lived in La Crosse, the locals that I hung around with thought much the same thing, but there was no evidence and it is fairly plausible that these dudes just fell into the river when they were wasted.
But now, (hat tip to my sister for tipping me off on this one...) it looks like they're getting closer to finding out who's behind this. the two NYC detectives that have been working on this case think they have linked 40-50 different murders in eleven different states over the past decade. What these guys did differently than local police is that they looked harder for where the victims went into the river, than where they came out and that's where they found the "Smiley Face" connection and have hypothesized it's a group of traveling killers who leave a titular calling card by the locations that the victims get thrown in.
So, Wisconsin's back on top when it comes to serial killers. I wish the LaX police department would have broken this to begin with (but they're probably too busy giving parking tickets and busting people for making out on Grandad's Bluff) but it was the re-opening of the Chris Jenkins case in Minneapolis and changing it to homicide that ignited the news coverage for the story (which is why it's the Minneapolis news that jumped on the story first.) However, we definitely can petition the license plates to say "America's Original Home for Serial Killers" which is way cooler than "America's Dairyland" (which factually isn't true any more in any case. We already have lost dairy production to California, but we'll always be the home of Ed Gein!)
I try to stay away from most news because it's depressing and very little of it affects my life, but since leaving La Crosse, I have a soft spot in my otherwise cold heart for the town and this story made me think about when we used to talk about the serial killer. And if you ever question what kind of sickness people are capable of, see if this doesn't change your mind.
But now, (hat tip to my sister for tipping me off on this one...) it looks like they're getting closer to finding out who's behind this. the two NYC detectives that have been working on this case think they have linked 40-50 different murders in eleven different states over the past decade. What these guys did differently than local police is that they looked harder for where the victims went into the river, than where they came out and that's where they found the "Smiley Face" connection and have hypothesized it's a group of traveling killers who leave a titular calling card by the locations that the victims get thrown in.
So, Wisconsin's back on top when it comes to serial killers. I wish the LaX police department would have broken this to begin with (but they're probably too busy giving parking tickets and busting people for making out on Grandad's Bluff) but it was the re-opening of the Chris Jenkins case in Minneapolis and changing it to homicide that ignited the news coverage for the story (which is why it's the Minneapolis news that jumped on the story first.) However, we definitely can petition the license plates to say "America's Original Home for Serial Killers" which is way cooler than "America's Dairyland" (which factually isn't true any more in any case. We already have lost dairy production to California, but we'll always be the home of Ed Gein!)
I try to stay away from most news because it's depressing and very little of it affects my life, but since leaving La Crosse, I have a soft spot in my otherwise cold heart for the town and this story made me think about when we used to talk about the serial killer. And if you ever question what kind of sickness people are capable of, see if this doesn't change your mind.
posted by Sunspot_Mike at 8:43 AM
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Im just throwing this out there, but I was watching the movie Fight Club the other night, and there is a prominent smiley face thats shown when a band of young guys starts burning buildings in the movie. They used the term project mayem, I believe. Im wondering if the people that actually died in these locations were joined by a hidden fight club for young men. In the movie, one of the leaders almost kills another kid, and all new initiates have to fight. There are now known fight clubs in Calif to support this theory. It would seem plausible that these super secret college-baed underground clubs are run by a loosely connected band of people and yound guys are prompted to join, and in some fights, get killed, and the botties dumped in waterways to high evidence? Any bruising on the bodies would indicate a fight light this. Its also possible they were picked up and forced to fight, and died, being drink, etc. Who knows, but when I saw that movie and realized the crime evidence, it certainly seems plausible. Again, these are super secret clubs so very hard to identify, I would bet.
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