Sounds like a cool band name, huh? Wrong, the Smiley Face Killers don’t rock, they kill… promising young college men.

April 29, 2008 — Two ex-NYPD detectives doggedly probing the drowning of two New Yorkers believe they were murdered by a nationwide gang of psychopathic serial killers who have drowned 39 other young men.

Retired Detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte say Patrick McNeill, 20, a Fordham accounting major, was killed by what they are calling the Smiley Face Gang, which they say has struck in 25 cities in 11 states since 1997.

Smiley faces - some with horns - were drawn on walls at 22 of the crime scenes in five states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa. The paint, size and shape of the faces varied.

The victims in all the cases shared roughly the same profile: young men of college age who disappeared after a night of drinking, and drowned.

My friend just tried to make the point that shows like CSI are to blame. Um, no. That shit is TAME compared to the video games kids have access to these days. GTA4 just came out yesterday. PEW PEW PEW DIE MOTHER F*CKER DIE MOTHER F*CKER DIE!

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