Episode 7 // The Vanishing Drowning Men

How does a man disappear from a group of friends and show up dead two months later, in a river, 15 miles away he was last seen? And what if the body shows no evidence of having been in the water for more than a few days. What if this happens dozens or even hundreds of times all across the country over a period of years. People claim it's a serial killer? Or a network of serial killers? We don't necessarily agree.

SOURCES:

• https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/nyregion/times-square-reveler-is-found-drowned.html

• https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/20/nyregion/student-19-at-yeshiva-u-is-reported-to-be-missing.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/M/Missing%20Persons&login=email&auth=login-email

• https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/25/nyregion/body-of-yeshiva-u-student-is-found-in-hudson-river.html?searchResultPosition=7

• http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19980603-01.2.2

• https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/06/nyregion/family-and-police-seek-missing-times-square-reveler.html?searchResultPosition=4

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-a-serial-killer-gang-murdering-young-men-across-the-us

• https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/19/serial-killer-or-accidental-drowning-dakota-james-mystery/

• https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/features/the-truth-about-toxicology-tests#1

• http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1996831,00.html

• http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/issue-may-2015/post-mortem-what-happens-drugs-after-death.html

• https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/36390/Measured_alcohol_lev.pdf

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073811004506#:~:text=By%20endogenous%20alcohol%20we%20mean,body%20through%20various%20metabolic%20processes.

• http://coronerlakecountyil.blogspot.com/2006/01/intro-to-toxicology-testing.html

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/skin-maceration

• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321792#What-happens-in-decomposition?

• http://www.evidencemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=430

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474513/#:~:text=In%20most%20cases%2C%20the%20temperature,generally%20slow%20the%20decomposition%20process.&text=Water%20temperature%20and%20current%20will,body%20in%20a%20liquid%20environment.

• https://ny.curbed.com/2014/2/20/10141822/how-the-upper-east-side-grew-out-of-three-historic-enclaves

• http://murders.ru/kevin%20gannon,%20D.%20lee%20gilbertson-smile_killers.pdf

• http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2003/04-18/daverio.html

• http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N20/20budeath.20n.html

• https://badgerherald.com/news/2003/04/17/boston-u-professor-d/

• https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/4/16/body-identified-as-bu-prof-schumann/

• http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/22/body_identified_as_missing_sailor/

• https://www.pilotonline.com/military/article_d96d97f6-86bc-5b55-a564-01abeb204ff0.html

• https://www.masslive.com/news/2009/10/body_of_william_hurley_of_quin.html

• https://www.patriotledger.com/article/20091014/NEWS/310149615

• https://www.oxygen.com/smiley-face-killers-the-hunt-for-justice/crime-time/william-hurley-phone-potential-smiley-face-killers

• https://www.oxygen.com/smiley-face-killers-the-hunt-for-justice/crime-time/forensic-pathologist-evidence-william-hurley

• https://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20100304/NEWS/303048994

• https://www.bostonherald.com/2010/11/29/police-body-found-in-boston-harbor-is-missing-raytheon-engineer/

• https://www.masslive.com/news/2010/11/body_of_eugene_losik_of_lawren.html

• https://northendwaterfront.com/2010/08/boston-police-continue-to-investigate-missing-person-25-year-old-eugene-losik/

• https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Parents-mourn-son-s-death-in-Boston-1050749.php

• http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/03/09/missing_mans_body_is_found/

• https://newton.wickedlocal.com/article/20110308/NEWS/303089253

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