WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.839 So the deaths of dozens of young men across eleven 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.200 states and twenty five cities were declared accidental drownings. But 3 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.320 now new surveillance video puts them back in the headlines. 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:14.640 It's called a smiley faced killer. That case has become 5 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.879 front page news again. There's a lot more to it 6 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:17.359 than we know. 7 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.160 This was abducted in a cargo van. 8 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.480 He was driven around Minneapolis for hours and tortured. 9 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:28.640 These are young, highly intelligent, very athletic young men that 10 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.079 disappear if the night of drinking very suspiciously. You Most 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.399 of them have GHB, which is how did this drug 12 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:37.679 wind up in the body incapacitated them. 13 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:38.399 They have injuries. 14 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.479 They are held for a period of time because there's 15 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.039 no decomposition on the body for the amount of time 16 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.679 that they're missing, and then they're the positive bodies of 17 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.560 water to be recovered later drowned. But most of them 18 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:50.240 doesn't even have water in their lungs. 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.960 And we knew it wasn't and it was just you know, 20 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:56.240 one of those things where he walked out and it 21 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:57.240 was never seen again. 22 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.840 I would like Brian to know that if you're out 23 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:00.799 there and you can come. 24 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.359 Home, if I would have known that was the last 25 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.680 time I was ever going to see him. 26 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:07.719 I wouldn't let him go. 27 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:20.959 With so many cases of young men going out to 28 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.400 bars and or parties with groups of friends and ending 29 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.400 up disappearing for weeks or even months at a time, 30 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.000 only to be found in random nearby water sources, deceased 31 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.879 under very strange circumstances, there was bound to at some 32 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:39.040 point be a theory that popped up. This would be 33 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:44.359 what we know as the smiley faced killer or killer's theory. 34 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.120 The connections in these cases were discovered and parameters for 35 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.599 such cases were set, put together and advanced retired New 36 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:58.439 York City detectives Kevin Gannon, Anthony Duarte, and doctor Lee Gilbertson. 37 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:02.439 Gilbertson is a criminal justice professor and gang expert at 38 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.879 Saint Cloud State University. The theory alleges that a number 39 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.719 of young men found dead in seemingly random bodies of 40 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:13.759 water across the United States, with specific attention being focused 41 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.039 on the Midwestern States between the early nineteen nineties and 42 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.599 twenty tens, did not in fact drowned, but were the 43 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.840 victims of foul play. Law enforcement agencies across the country 44 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:29.120 are denying there's any kind of connection, usually with the 45 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.199 corners signing off on the typical got drunk, wandered off 46 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.919 and into water source and drowned due to intoxication. 47 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.800 That's the cause of death. 48 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.319 However, these two detectives and a doctor deorized that these 49 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.520 specific drownings, with several very specific parameters which we'll discuss 50 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.159 in this documentary, are all connected somehow. They believe all 51 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.120 of them to be the work of a serial killer 52 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.599 or group of killers, who reportedly leave a smiley face 53 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.400 in some type of graffiti near the sites where these 54 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.960 boys and young men are said by law enforcement to 55 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.759 have drowned accidentally. How many times could there be such 56 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.800 a situation near the water where a young man, after 57 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:11.520 night of innocent partying and fun, was separated from his 58 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.520 group and never seen again until his body was recovered 59 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.479 Before we all agree it can't be a coincidence anymore. 60 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.759 Let's look further into it now, and at the end 61 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.439 you tell me what you think. Is it possible that 62 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.520 a killer or a group of killers could be so 63 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.840 skilled as to never leave any trace of their existence 64 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.000 behind during an alleged span of twenty or more years, 65 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.000 No forensic evidence, no physical evidence, not one single shred 66 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:43.199 of evidence of foul play. 67 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.840 Well not quite. 68 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.639 Let's start with the case of Christopher Jenkins in two 69 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.520 thousand and two. Christopher Jenkins was a university student in 70 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:56.599 Minnesota State. He decided to go out drinking at a 71 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:58.960 bar in Minneapolis on Halloween night with a group of 72 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.520 friends and his girlfriend. The crew ended up at the 73 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.719 Lone Tree Bar, which is allegedly in a sketchy part 74 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.879 of the town. Chris dressed up as a Native American 75 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.400 that night. It was in a full costume. While reports 76 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.199 very greatly the story told, the most was that for 77 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.319 some reason or another, an intoxicated Chris was asked to 78 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.360 leave the bar that night, so he was basically thrown 79 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:26.040 out and decided to walk home alone. Again, since he 80 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.360 was with his girlfriend and a large group of friends 81 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.360 that night, is unknown why he was walking home alone. 82 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:34.639 Many say it's what he wanted to do to blow 83 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.639 off some steam as he was angry for being thrown 84 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.000 out of the bar. A bouncer who remembered asking Chris 85 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.639 to leave and also walking him out the door, reported 86 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.959 he had taken a left on Hennepin Avenue. He had 87 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.279 left his wallet phone, and jacket behind when he exited 88 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.800 the bar and walked into the freezing cold Minnesota night. 89 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.199 Some people claim Chris left on his own that night. However, 90 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.480 that doesn't make much sense if he left all those 91 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.040 things behind the bar. Chris Jenkins would be found four 92 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.199 months later in the Hennepin River in the Horseshoe Dam area. 93 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.879 His Native American costume was still completely intact, and his 94 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.319 legs and arms are crossed. He was also found with 95 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.759 some hair in his hands, and it's been a huge 96 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.360 controversy over whether or not the hair found clutched in 97 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.920 the death grip of his fingers was his own or 98 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:26.680 someone else's. Some are adamant that it was his own hair, 99 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.800 while others are just as mheman it was someone else's. 100 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.360 Upon taking another look at the autopsy, it was determined 101 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.720 that the only way his body would have been found 102 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:38.720 in the position it was in was if there had 103 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.800 been a struggle. Despite this, his case was labeled as 104 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:47.079 he took his own life. In two thousand and six, however, 105 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.480 there was a new police chief in Indianapolis named Tim Dolan, who, 106 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.800 upon a closer look, reopened the case as a homicide 107 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.560 and started immediately reinvestigating it. Dolan went so far as 108 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.120 to hold us conference and apologized to the family for 109 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:06.000 not investigating Chris's case as a homicide all along. There 110 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:10.560 were just too many unanswered questions. The sticking point for 111 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.399 many who believed from the very beginning it was a 112 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.120 homicide or who came around to that opinion later on 113 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.439 was the hair found in his hands? 114 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.040 Whose was it? 115 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.920 It was also reported, upon further examination of the toxic 116 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.720 college report, that Chris had nowhere near enough alcohol in 117 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.879 his system to be considered inebriated enough to not be 118 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.399 able to walk or talk on his own. In fact, 119 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.000 it's been said that most likely, if they hadn't found 120 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.519 the GHB in his system, he may not have been 121 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.439 impaired at all. Upon further investigation and what was now 122 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.319 being considered a homicide, a witness turned up who had 123 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.319 stated he had been drinking at the same bar a 124 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.800 couple of months prior to Chris having gone missing there, 125 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.160 and he claims he was extremely sick and ineborated after 126 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.680 only consuming his first drink of the night. He also 127 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.199 claims that quote a few men unquote tried to put 128 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.360 him in a car, but his friends found him before 129 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.360 this could happen and saved him. Were these men just 130 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.519 good samaritans trying to give what seemed to be a 131 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.040 very intoxicated man or ride home. If that's the case, 132 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.079 then why have they not yet come forward and made 133 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.399 themselves known to the very least get rid of some 134 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.319 of the confusion regarding the matter. Were these the actual 135 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.800 Smiley Face killers or at least a few of them. 136 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:28.439 If you go down the rabbit hole into this whole 137 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.319 murder theory, you will find that the main idea is 138 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.000 there's an extremely large group of individuals throughout the country 139 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.560 who are somehow operating together to drug and abduct these smart, athletic, 140 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.600 good looking, well liked and normally fairly responsible young men 141 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.399 and do whatever it is they're doing with it before 142 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.079 throwing them into random water sources nearby to where they 143 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:53.040 were last seen, but quite far from the intended end destination. 144 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.360 The only connection the Smiley Face, which will inevitably be 145 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:02.680 found in close proximity to the back to the supposed 146 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.720 almost abduction witness his friends who were nice enough to 147 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.360 take him immediately to the hospital because of his poor state, 148 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.560 and it was found through tests he had an extremely 149 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:16.600 high level of GHB in his system. The police were 150 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.959 able to obtain this man's toxicology report with his permission, 151 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.600 of course, through the hospital records from when he came 152 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.040 in that night. He was exhibiting all the symptoms of 153 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.560 someone who had either taken or had their drink dosed 154 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:35.879 with GHB. Now a little background. GHB synthetic gamma hydroxyl 155 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:40.080 butty rate or GHB, is a nervous system depressant which 156 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:42.519 was once manufactured in the lab with the hopes of 157 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.519 inducing sleep and providing pain relief for patients undergoing surgery 158 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:51.320 or having other major medical procedures. It was eventually found 159 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.399 to be ineffective at relieving pain and was deemed completely 160 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.159 unsafe for distribution after the clinical studies showed a large 161 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.480 number of test subjects for having seized intense and almost 162 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:07.480 constant vomiting and swings between consciousness and unconsciousness, so basically 163 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.799 the subjects were randomly passing out and waking up over 164 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:16.120 and over and over again. Unfortunately, GHB became popular in 165 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.799 athletic circles as many athletes heard about its effects on metabolism, 166 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:21.919 mainly its. 167 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:22.919 Ability to speed it up. 168 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.879 It stimulated the human growth hormone, which is known to 169 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.840 reduce body fat while increasing muscle mass and athlete's dream 170 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.320 come true. Later on, in the nineteen nineties, when these 171 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.679 bizarre water deaths started occurring, GHB became a very popular 172 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.600 recreational drug in the so called club scene. It was 173 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.360 used here because of its euphoric effects and was commonly 174 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.639 combined with methamphetamines or MDMA, as each drug played off 175 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.639 the other to enhance it. Unfortunately, the fast rate of 176 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.879 unconsciousness is what has gained GHB its more dubious reputation. 177 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:01.320 It's been used in. 178 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.639 An almost exorbitant amount of sexual assaught cases, particularly those 179 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:10.039 cases pertaining to sexual assaults on a date, due to 180 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.960 not only the fast rate of knocking the victim unconscious, 181 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:17.120 but also because of the after effects. There's almost no 182 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.759 memory of the events which have occurred after you've taken 183 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:20.399 a certain. 184 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:20.919 Amount of the drug. 185 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.279 So now we know a bit about GHB and its 186 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:27.039 origins and how it could possibly be a very important 187 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:30.159 part of evidence going forward. Let's move on to some 188 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.480 other cases. It should be said that while the body 189 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.799 makes a very small amount of GHB on its own, 190 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.320 it's not enough to even have any effect on a 191 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.279 person at its natural rate of metabolism of the body. 192 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:46.000 It has to either be surreptitiously given or purposely consumed 193 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.759 in larger doses to have any significant effect whatsoever. Also, 194 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:55.440 it isn't automatically tested for in most autopsies and toxicology screenings. 195 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.240 Drowning deaths included next case. 196 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.720 On January twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, at around eleven thirty pm, 197 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.159 twenty three year old graduate student Dakota James was walking 198 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.320 back to his apartment after night out parting with a 199 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.320 group of his friends and co workers. The last known 200 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.919 sighting of him was a surveillance camera in the downtown 201 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.279 area that picked him up walking in the direction of 202 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.240 his home. He is seen in this footage walking into 203 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.720 a dark alley and is never seen alive again. When 204 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.679 James didn't show up for work the following morning, his 205 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.159 boss was concerned enough to call his family, who in 206 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:34.600 turn notified the police interported him as missing. They unfortunately, 207 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.879 were falsely told that they had to wait seventy two 208 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.840 hours to do so. When nothing seemed to be getting 209 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:44.080 accomplished by the local police, the family hired a private 210 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.200 investigator who organized a massive search of the downtown area 211 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.240 where Dakota was last known to be seen on. 212 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:50.919 That video footage. 213 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.399 This search is what led to the discovery of his 214 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.600 body in the Ohio River forty days after he was 215 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.519 last known to be alive. Pittsburgh police go included that 216 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.279 he had been crossing a bridge and accidentally, due to 217 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.120 his drunken state, fell into the river and drowned. Before 218 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.919 its discovery, however, the police determined that the body had 219 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.080 most likely traveled almost ten miles and even had to 220 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.679 squeeze through a dam before eventually ending up where it 221 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.120 was found. This would be all well and good except 222 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.960 for the fact that the body had almost no visible 223 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.000 damage on it. How could it be in so Pristina's 224 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.080 shape after having traveled almost ten miles in the heavily 225 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:32.600 trafficked river. Since the cases since been closed and labeled 226 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.919 a mere drowning, we may never actually get the answers. Also, 227 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.759 no tests were performed to discover if there were any 228 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.279 GHB in his system or not. A smiley face was 229 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:47.559 found spray painted on a nearby underpass. Keep in mind 230 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.879 that on that last bit of footage of Dakota he 231 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.039 entered the alley he was looking down at his cell phone. 232 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.559 This is another common occurrence in these strange disappearances, either 233 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:02.120 the victim makes the shady, bizarre final phone call or 234 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.399 seen looking down at their phone in the last known moments. 235 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.399 Of their lives. 236 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.879 Dakota's parents say there is no possible way he could 237 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.399 have drowned because he was a star athlete and his 238 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:16.600 school's swim team captain. They also said their son was 239 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.679 not an inexperienced drinker and there is no way he 240 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.320 would have allowed himself to become so ineviated as to 241 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.519 accidentally fall into a river from bridge and then not 242 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:29.519 be able to get himself out. Four years later, and 243 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:33.519 there's no new information in Dakota's case at this time. 244 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.639 It's still closed and still ruled an accidental drowning. His 245 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.600 parents still have no answers to their many questions, mainly 246 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.200 could this have been the work of the smiley face 247 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:51.320 killer or killers. Next case, on January nineteenth, twenty eighteen, 248 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.120 in Woodland, Pennsylvania, a young man named Tommy Booth was 249 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:59.519 out celebrating his birthday marhopping with his friends. This has 250 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.360 yet an nother case which displays one or several of 251 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:06.480 the parameters known to be a smiley faced killing possibility. 252 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.399 Tommy Booth was captured on the bar of surveillance footage 253 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.600 entering the bar, but there was no video evidence of 254 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.480 him ever having left. This is far more common than 255 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.240 you might think. It's one of the main things which 256 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.720 people who subscribe to this theory think is extremely strange 257 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:28.200 and cannot easily be explained away. How can someone be 258 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.679 captured on surveillance video entering a place but then not exiting, 259 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.039 only to be found later on deceeased somewhere in a 260 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:39.960 seemingly random nearby water source. Many people take this evidence, 261 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.879 or lack thereof, alone as a reason to point to 262 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.000 a group of killers, or possibly an individual being responsible 263 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.559 for these seemingly accidental deaths. There's just too much here 264 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.440 that doesn't make sense. Tommy Booth was found face down 265 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.480 in the creek right behind the bar two weeks after 266 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.080 he'd gone missing. There were no signs trauma on his body, 267 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.840 and it was ruled a probable drowning. This is another 268 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.399 way in which it seems the authorities involved in these 269 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.039 cases try to play it fast and loose with rewarding 270 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:15.360 in these autopsy reports. What exactly does probable drowning mean 271 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.799 it means the corner isn't sure exactly what happened and 272 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:24.399 thinks it might mean that the young man drowned loose 273 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.279 case is not the only autopsy to have this determination 274 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:31.840 of death, and it's downright confusing. How are these cases 275 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.679 both Tommy Booths and those similar with the same death 276 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.720 determination being closed if the autopsy doesn't have an exact 277 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.360 cause of death. This is where the human element comes 278 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:46.799 into play, whether you're discussing the inability for the corner 279 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:49.919 to determine an exact cause of death or wondering how 280 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.519 a person or even a group of people could possibly 281 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:57.120 continuously pull off these seemingly perfect yet completely confusing deaths 282 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.720 without leaving behind any evidence at all or being caught. 283 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.039 In fact, these smiley faced killers must be so adept 284 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.120 at their work that most people don't even believe they exist, 285 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:13.559 and most investigators won't acknowledge that they just might. Another 286 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.039 very strange thing about Tom Booth's case is not only 287 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.399 his body having no signs of any kind of trauma 288 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.440 to it, but the place where his body was discovered. 289 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:25.720 It had been searched several times in the two weeks 290 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.039 before he was found there and apparently nobody even noticed it. 291 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.320 He was right out in the open, though so many 292 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:34.600 involved think that for him to have been found there 293 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.320 says it all. There must have been some kind of 294 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.159 foul play because he obviously wasn't there the whole time. 295 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.320 Groups of searchers had gone back and forth down the 296 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.279 creek for weeks and found nothing. This is yet another 297 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.200 parameter we must look for it while investigating these cases. 298 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.720 According to information released in the book case Studies in 299 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.840 Droughting Forensics, written by Kevin Gannon and doctor Lee Gilbertson, 300 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:04.839 Boost's body was in full rigor mortis. This is important 301 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.480 because if you remember, he was missing for two weeks 302 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.680 and found in an area which had been repeatedly searched 303 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.880 again like so many of these other cases, and full 304 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.319 rigor almost always dissipates within twenty four to thirty six hours. 305 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.519 This was just more proof to his friends, loved ones, 306 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.160 and even the volunteers and searched for him that foul 307 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.119 play was afoot. This would be a very reasonable explanation 308 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.640 as to why his body just seemed to randomly appear 309 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.359 one day. He couldn't possibly been there the whole two weeks. 310 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:39.279 He was missing, and in fact had only been deceased 311 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.160 for twenty four to thirty six hours, So where had 312 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.319 he been the rest of the time. This is another 313 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.640 question commonly asked when reviewing the possible victims of the 314 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:54.119 Smiley Faced killer autopsies. Many many of these young men 315 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.359 are found in places which were already searched, and also 316 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:02.319 they hadn't been deceased nearly as long as they been missing. However, 317 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.440 law enforcement across many states and counties have given over 318 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.160 to just ignoring this one little fact and pretending as 319 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.920 though it is somehow possible for all this to be occurring, 320 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.079 acting as if it makes perfect sense in the hopes 321 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.039 that they do not have a group of killers on 322 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:20.279 their hands who have been operating at a perfect success 323 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.839 rate right under their noses for. 324 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:24.000 Over twenty years now. 325 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.880 Kevin Gannon and Lee Gilbertson were also the opinion that 326 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:32.720 the body had been carefully staged. There seemed to be 327 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.279 three sticks strategically placed around the body, and there were 328 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.759 shoeing drag marks in the soil. A smiley face was 329 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.240 found painted under the deck of the bar on a 330 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:49.000 wall very nearby the body. These are just a few 331 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.960 of the many, many cases where, in the opinions of 332 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.799 most civilians familiar with what happened, the authorities should have 333 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.319 had some serious questions. Each case has at least one 334 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.119 thing mary blatant which stands out is not right or off. 335 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.359 How is it that police and investigators aren't seeing these things? 336 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.480 How is it the medical examiners aren't asking the very 337 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.279 same questions such as whose hair is that? Question in 338 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.000 his hand? And how did those sticks get placed like that? 339 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.440 And how did he drag his own body? He's unanswered 340 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.359 questions and many many more. Or what continued to fuel 341 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.319 this theory? Is there something going on out there at 342 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.720 which the government, local authorities, and even the media are 343 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.519 trying to keep from us the general public sure seems 344 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.640 that way to many of the families of the victims too. 345 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:40.599 Take the tragic case of Lucas Holman forget another example, 346 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.240 another tragic death which, no matter where you look at 347 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:48.720 it just doesn't quite add up. Lucas Holman was a 348 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.319 twenty one year old who vanished on September twenty ninth, 349 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.920 two thousand and six, from Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Lucas case is 350 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.960 almost the exact same as the others. He was out 351 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.440 celebrating October with a group of friends. Everyone was drinking, partying, 352 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.279 and having a right time. But here's where things get 353 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.079 extremely confusing and even bizarre. In this case, Lucas and 354 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.559 one of his friends left the bar at around ten pm. 355 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:17.000 They started to walk home together, but somehow, and it's 356 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:20.359 still unknown exactly what happened and how it happened, Lucas 357 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:23.759 and his friend got separated. The friend ended up in 358 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.119 a local emergency room that night with a pretty serious 359 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.920 head injury and no memory of what had occurred. For 360 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.720 almost entirety that night, it was all just coming up blank. 361 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:36.480 So here we had the point of random separation and 362 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:40.000 somebody possibly being knocked out and waking up from the hospital. 363 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.319 Many people feel this is two coincidental and could possibly 364 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.119 indicate the friend was knocked out and someone or a 365 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:51.960 group of someone's swooped in and abducted Lucas. This is, 366 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.319 after all, the very basis of the Smiley Face killer theory. 367 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.440 While the paranormal community searches transwers to all the missing 368 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.240 people just vanishing around the world without a trace, in 369 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:06.160 the supernatural realm, some people are looking for a human element, 370 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.440 things like the GHB levels that we mentioned and this 371 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:13.720 particular friend's head injury and blackout as to what led 372 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.839 them down this path At this point, it's actually more 373 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:20.400 like a rabbit hole than a path. When Lucas didn't 374 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.559 show up for a golf outing the next day, he 375 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.319 was reported as missing. Search dogs scouted the area where 376 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:29.200 Lucas had been seen, and, according to the official police report, 377 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.599 one of the dogs actually got a hit. The dog 378 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.240 alerted on a band that belonged to a local band member. 379 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:38.799 I'm not sure if these were just regular search dogs 380 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.559 or could have her dogs, but either way, that was 381 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:45.079 a pretty interesting lead. This band member just happened to 382 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.200 have been playing a gig in the same bar where 383 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:52.119 Lucas was last seen leaving the night before. Somewhere someone 384 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:55.559 came to the conclusion that the dogs alert was inconclusive 385 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.160 and the band member was never named as a suspect 386 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:02.279 or charged with any crime. In Digging a little deeper 387 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:05.519 beneath the surface, though, the story actually gets a little 388 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.759 bit stranger. The friend who was with Lucas that night, 389 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:10.960 the one who said he just blacked out. When he 390 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:12.960 turned up in the emergency room with a head injury, 391 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.599 he was charged with obstruction of justice when the authorities 392 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.799 found out. Despite him telling the investigators he couldn't remember 393 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.559 he had told multiple stories to different people who later 394 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:25.279 came board. 395 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:27.000 And told the police. 396 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:29.799 None of these alternate stories he was running around telling 397 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.359 anyone who would listen had him blacking out. In fact, 398 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.920 he seemed to tell almost the same story to everyone, 399 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:39.960 was just minute differences here and there. He had been 400 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.720 overheard saying that Lucas had gotten into an altercation and 401 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.839