33: MYSTERY | Smiley Face Killer

In 1981, 17-year-old Kurt Sova disappeared after attending a Halloween party, setting off one of the strangest missing person cases in Ohio history.In the days that followed, mysterious accounts began to surface. There were alleged sightings of Kurt after he vanished... a bizarre ...  Show more

When a Texas security company was hired to guard an abandoned church hidden deep in the woods, they expected to deal with vandals—not something far more terrifying. Guard after guard quit the job, fleeing into the night after experiencing unexplainable voices, shadowy figures, an ...  Show more

Could a group of serial murderers be kidnapping, drugging and drowning young men across the United States? Scores of young male college students have been found dead in what law enforcement calls accidental drownings -- but a team of retired detectives believe there's something m ...  Show more

Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended up dead in rivers, lakes, and ponds. The deaths have been ruled accidental drownings, but a team of retired detectives believes a small, smiley-face shaped clue points to somethin ...  Show more

For over 20 years young college-aged men have been going missing, only to turn up dead in local waterways. Police think these cases are tragic accidents, but a small group of investigators have long believed there’s something else at work…something much more sinister that all ...

The "Smiley Face Killers" theory suggests that the drownings of young, college-aged men across the U.S. are not mere accidents but the work of an organized group of killers. Retired detectives Kevin Gannon, Anthony Duarte, and Michael O'Neill, after noticing disturbing patterns i ...  Show more