Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the US?

ILLUSTRATION: The Daily Beast/Elizabeth Brockway

Dozens of college-age men dead from ‘accidental’ drownings — but a team of retired detectives say the boys were drugged and killed by a shadowy gang with a sinister symbol.

By Nicole Weisensee Egan | 18 January 2018

THE DAILY BEAST — On the evening of Dec. 15, 2016, Dakota James called his friend Shelley in a panic.

He was cold, disoriented, and scared out of his mind, wandering the streets of downtown Pittsburgh, trying to find someone — anyone — who would help him.

“I don’t know where I am,” he told her, sobbing. “I’m so cold. Please help me. I’m lost.”

Shelley didn’t hesitate.

“I’m thinking, ‘Did he get mugged? Did he get beat up? Was he in a car accident?’” she told The Daily Beast this week. “I was so scared. I said, ‘Where are you?’ I’m coming.’”

“Pittsburgh’s North Side,” he told her.

She quickly hopped into her car to go get him, then remembered she could use her cellphone to figure out where he was because he’d enabled location services with her when she gave him a ride to the airport months ago. …

Gannon, his former colleague at the NYPD Anthony Duarte, Prof. Lee Gilbertson, and another retired NYPD detective, Mike Donovan, are the stars of Oxygen’s Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice, a new six-part limited series that premieres Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. […]


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2 Comments on Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the US?

  1. It seems that the majority of victims are young, educated white (alpha) males (the cream of the crop); what “group of people” are most “vocal” about “killing white men in patricular?

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