"Ex-NYPD cops say smiley face is link in 40 deaths by serial killer syndicate" :
Daily News Smiley-Face serial killer story
"A spray-painted smiley face with a taunting grin could be the disturbing signature of a nationwide network of killers who target promising college students.
The chilling symbol has been found at at least 12 sites where young men fitting a distinct profile have been drowned in incidents that were ruled accidents."
Lots of speculation going on right now, about who the killers might be and what might be their motivation.
The "distinct profile" of the victims, developed by retired NYPD cops Gannon and Duarte, suggests a startling answer to these questions.
The victims profile: "In every case, the victim has been a 19-to-23-year-old white male with high academic achievement and active in competitive sports, said Gannon". The victims are all young male high-acheivers and athletes, exactly the type of person that wimpy loser Nerds develop insane, (and sometimes violent), jealousies about and grudges against .
Another, related group of persons who have inspired homicidal jealousies in socially inept losers, are young, white, couples engaged in the kind of dating romance that Nerds often dream of but seldom acheive in their own lives. There have been serial killings targeting this group, a classic example being the "Zodiac Killer" attacks on young couples making out in cars at remote locations, that took place in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s:
Zodiac Killer Case Summary
No one has ever been arrested for the Zodiac Killer murders. They remain officially unsolved. There are reasons to believe that "Zodiac" was in fact an early manifestation of the murderous activity of an organized cult, and that this cult consists of social failure Nerds, exacting a perverse "revenge" against segments of society that embody the social, academic and athletic success they lust for but cannot acheive.
Most of the deaths that Gannon and Duarte have linked, were written off as accidents - especially drownings. However, the retired NYPD cops have uncovered evidence that suggests the killings may have been intentionally staged to appear to be accidents. The Zodiac KIller cult announced in a November 1969 letter, their intention to change their way of collecting “slaves for the afterlife” by staging their crimes to appear to be “routine robberies, killings of anger and a few fake accidents.” In the 40 years between 1969 and today, there have been hundreds of supposedly "accidental" deaths in the U.S. that some have suspected of being murders disguised as accidents, and many of them have involved young adults, both men and women. In fact, "accidental" death is the #1 cause of death for the young adults that fit the profile developed by Gannon and Duarte. How many more of these were really victims of the vengeful Nerd cult?
What to make of the smiley-face graffitti found near some of the death scenes Gannon and Duarte have been investigating? Like the Zodiac Killer cult's trademark "crosshairs" symbol, attempts to decipher a relevant meaning from the symbol may turn out to be pointless, time-consuming red-herrings, exactly as the cultists intend. All that is really important about this type of "tagging", is that the symbol developed by a particular geographic sect of the cult by employed consistently by all members operating in that area, and the circular outline. The specifics of what appears within the circular outline are not important, the circle encompassing the other graphics of the symbols represents the unbreakable bond that binds members of the cult, ensuring that they will never betray the secret of the cult's existence - just as Klebold & Harris took their own lives to avoid capture, never revealing the nation-wide cult network of underacheivers for whom they were the selected and initiated pioneers of a new campaign and strategy of the cult that continues to terrorize us all even today.