who is the beast behind the smiley face murders?
Theories on smiley face murders resurface again Are the deaths of over 50 young, athletic collegiate men across the Midwest linked together? Rhiannon Banda-Scott It all started in February of 1997 when Patrick McNeil, a 21-year-old junior accounting student at Fordham University, went missing. After a night out drinking and partying with friends at local New York bars, McNeil decided to head home for some rest before an early class the next day. McNeil never made it home. Two months later in April, his body was found floating in the harbor near Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His death was ruled a suicide but McNeil’s parents refused to believe their successful, ambitious and athletic son would do such a thing as take his own life. When the Smiley Face Killer theory, a hypothesis which proposed that a gang was targeting collegiate men, leaving behind a graffiti sign of a smiley face as a calling card, blew up in the media last May, the Today Show reported that Kevin Gannon, then a detective serge
