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The smiley face thing is just about the weakest thing in the entire conspiracy theory.

The fact that we've never seen pictures of all these "smiley faces" leads me to believe they're probably not even similar in style, making it most likely just a coincidence.

But then again, it's high drama, American sheeples love this sort of thing.

do they collaborate via IRC?

give me a fucking break. this is so asinine.

They vary so that each one can be more haunting than the next!

The detectives believe that the smiley faces were left by the killer or killers. They varied in size, with each face more haunting than the next.

The most sinister was found in Iowa. It was drawn in red with a devil's horns. Next to the smiley face was a note that read, "Evil Happy Smiley Face Man."

Asked whether he believed there was a hidden message in the smiley faces, Duarte told CNN, "The message is, they're taunting the police."

Duarte and Gannon said they found 12 other matching symbols similar to gang graffiti. But, to protect their investigation, they wouldn't describe them in detail. The detectives say the string of deaths could be the work of more than one killer because some of them took place on the same day in different states.

"It's so widespread. We have so many different victims in so many different areas," Duarte said. "It would, in my view, be impossible to be one person."

Would some of these days where more than one incident occurred happen to be St Patrick's Day, Halloween, New Years Eve, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving? Or collectively know as the Amateur College Drinking Holidays?

In the first week of May, there was an article on this subject in that bastion of journalism, People Magazine.

I remember when I was at UW-Eau Claire and like 3 or 4 guys went missing... and then we started hearing about people at the UM and in Collegeville, etc.

I doubt it's serial killers. I think it's just that reporters have increased their coverage of drunken college kids falling in water out of misguided attempts at correlation.

there are dead innocent people you stupid shits! to discount the cops ability, is like saying whatever skill you have in any field can be mocked. i build ships, and if you think that is "dumb" work, you dont have a clue. however it would be easy to dismiss my knowledge, and say i am a simple boat builder...duh, water on the outside, and you stay floating right? whats there to know? very shallow thinking. if there are smiley faces at 20 plus body locations, then duh, its a clue. to say, its not is discounting the obvious. yes americans love the dramatic. and jeffery dalhmer ate people. baretta killed his wife, and so did oj. these criminals were off the radar before they were busted, to the masses. weird motherfuckers exist, and do weird shit. generations that have mansons, and btk killers in the rearview, are surely going to be freakier than their predessors. thats human social "progress". in a few years this smiley face thing will seem like nothing to the evil that will surface. bart simpson said "eat my shorts" and the world flipped...18 years ago...human development, and tolerance, now has hanna montanna posing half naked. the world moves twords evil, and this is no different.

FTR, I am not kingkurtis.

I doubt it. A new book has debunked the Smiley Face Killer crap.

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2009/05/06/news/z00book0506.txt