The Chilling Story Behind the 1999 Smiley Face Murders

The controversy surrounding smiley face graffiti found near several drowning victims.

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Following the drowning deaths of a number of young men in the Midwest and Northeast of the United States, a theory that attributed the deaths to the work of a serial murderer came into being. The theory popped up in 1999 after a…