In 2022, 11 bodies were removed from the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, reigniting the debate around the Smiley Face Killer theory.
that three of the cases were ruled an accident, one was ruled a suicide and the other seven were ruled as"undetermined."'s email requesting comment on this story. In a previous statement in March earlier this year, following concerned social media posts, city and county officials said there is no evidence to support that the recent deaths are related,The conclusions reached by police and medical examiners have not satisfied everyone.
Nor are deaths in such circumstances—or speculation surrounding them—confined to Illinois. The Austin Police Department has repeatedly had to dismiss rumors of a serial killer in its city due toThe Smiley Face Serial Killer theory itself is not new, either. It is thought to have originated in around 2017 as attention focused on evidence surrounding deaths as far back as two decades.
The trio believes that a string of deaths of young men found in bodies of water across several Midwestern states from the late 1990s to the 2010s was the work of a serial killer or group of serial killers.the"smiley face" comes from graffiti depicting a smiley face, along with 13 other distinct symbols, found near the locations where they believe the killers dumped the bodies.
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