Kind of old story but still relevant: Basically, in a city full of college students and bars surrounded on three sides by water, it's unfortunate, but some will fall in the water. And many of the bodies pulled out of our local waters aren't young men in the bloom of their college youth, but people with some serious problems, including homeless people who literally just roll into the Muddy River and Fort Point Channel from their embankments on the shores. They don't get the attention that college men do because they don't have networks of family and friends who very publicly search for them, in particular online (nothing wrong with that, but a story about an evil killer stalking college men and pushing them into the water loses something when you realize there are a lot more victims that don't match that description).

The same way the murder of 4 attractive college kids in Idaho...

By Section 77 on Sat, 12/17/2022 - 12:35pm.

...Fascinates the entire nation the way that the killing of less TV-ready people ever could. Lots of people have a sliding scale on the value of human lives, especially those who scoff at the idea.

My work party was at that hotel last night

By Hydeparkush on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 9:22pm.

The one right on the water. There was also a party for the Boston Food Bank with hundreds of party goers getting sauced up. I am Lucky that when I was in college in Boston with all the risky behavior I engaged in that I didn't get seriously hurt. So I'm not sure a serial killer is more likely than a small fraction of the young adults making bad choices and paying the price.....and also no one seems to be upset about the youth getting shot in Roxbury , Mattapan, Dorchester and Hyde Park each week.

Thank you Adam, for nipping

By The Fox 915 on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 1:35pm.

Thank you Adam, for nipping in the bud all that smart-alecky foolishness about Smiley Face Killer.

The smiley killer conspiracy

By anon on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 2:33pm.

The smiley killer conspiracy is extremely problematic and hurtful. White people became obsessed with it because the “victims” were all white men.

It’d be nice if those idiotic people who believed in Smiley Face cared just a little bit about the very really and very factual homicides that befall young men of color in this city.

The Smiley Face Killer is

By redheadedjen on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:07pm.

The Smiley Face Killer is actually alcohol, which makes people fall into the water.

Whoa

By Angry Dan on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:08pm.

That's exactly what I would expect the Smiley Face Killer to say.

SECONDED

By yrennalf on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:46pm.

Just burns me up when young white dues get attributed to the alleged SFK while houseless and marginalized folks wash up in similar circumstances and people just shrug and say it happens.

Maybe it's because houseless

By anon on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 10:44pm.

Maybe it's because houseless lost touch with the legal next of kin or marital partner that officials have to notify about death. I don't consider someone homeless and addicted as someone who has the money to make the media make their death a newsflash. Unless their a celebrity.

But there’s more than that

By Waquiot on Sat, 12/17/2022 - 2:49pm.

The SFK theory always discounts the deaths of the homeless.

To be clear, back in the day my counter was always that bodies of people who fell into Boston Harbor have been discovered since colonial days, so the killer would have to be wicked old.

SFK Strikes Again

By Username Unknown on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 4:17pm.

What are we up to now?

Well...

By lbb on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 4:19pm.

...you're up to two, and that's two too many.

gtfo with this dumb conspiracy theory.

Body fished out of Boston Harbor at Long Wharf

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No, there is no Smiley Face

I've written about this before