This was in the news today...
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A body recovered by emergency personnel searching a river was identified Monday as a missing Wisconsin college student who had been out celebrating his 21st birthday over the weekend, authorities said.
Stevens Point Sgt. Dan Wheeler said officials removed the body of 21-year-old Eric Duffey around 1:10 p.m. from the Wisconsin River, which goes through the city about 110 miles north of Madison. The coroner's office made a positive identification after meeting with Duffey's family.
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http://news.yahoo.com/police-missing...211758489.html
From an article circa 2008
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They learned about a string of student drowning deaths, many of them involving young men who attended colleges along the Interstate 94 corridor in the Midwest -- in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Nine of the deceased attended the University of LaCrosse, in Wisconsin. Three attended colleges in New York state.
In all, the investigators say they've connected the bizarre drowning deaths of at least 40 college-age men across the country.
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http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-21/j...er?_s=PM:CRIME
I find this to be throughly bizarre and it NEEDS to be investigated by the FBI and not just written off as drownings by local LE. There was an interview on Coast to Coast AM a few months back with an author who is investigating these drownings and she had mentioned that the toxicology reports on most of these men came back negative for drugs or alcohol and that some of the bodies were found in rivers out of the way of the route they were supposedly walking. What strikes me as odd is how most of these are in the MN, WI, IL area, always college-aged men, smiley faces found near the body, and it damn near always happens in the late fall or winter.
What do you guys think?
ETA- You can find more cases and theories by google searching "smiley face killer".