Fears and theories in the US flashed after finding dozens of corpses in Houston with the citizens talking about confused killer leaving the corpses of his victims, near the river in Texas.
Texas police have found at least 16 corpses in the marshes around Houston so far this year, raising concerns about a serial killer that the city’s leaders have rejected. When a 20 -year -old student at the University of Houston was found dead in Brays Bayou last September, she shocked those who knew her. However, police officers investigating at the same spot found five more corpses within 6 days.
Authorities have only identified Jade McKissic, who was found on the morning of September 15, after being ignored for four days before. Researchers at the Houston Police Department said they did not suspect criminal activity.
The following afternoon, on September 16, the Houston Police Department pulled another corpse along the White Oak Bayou, north of the city center. And on September 18, Houston’s police responded to a call, again along the Buffalo Bayou, which concerned the response to “a person in the area and fell into the river”, but noted that these are only preliminary information and that the cause of death has not yet been determined.
Then, on Saturday, September 20, Houston’s police responded to another call along Buffalo Bayou, east of the city center. One person called the police after finding a corpse while riding in the river.
Authorities were still investigating each of these cases by Monday, and County Corps Harris has not yet identified the cause of death in any of the five cases, including McCisik’s case. The coroner’s office did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
The conspiracy theories of social media
A police spokesman told Houston Public Media that there is no evidence that the deaths of people found in the region’s marshes are linked and awaiting the results of the autopsy from the forensic office.
This did not prevent some social media users from speculating on cases, including some who have come to assume that there is a serial killer in Houston.
A post on Instagram from the Daily Rumble falsely said that Houston’s police indicated that McKissic’s death was the result of criminal activity and attributed the murders to a serial killer. The video has over 4,000 likes since the day it shared.
After the Houston Public Media reported two days before the posting that the police did not suspect a criminal act of McKissic’s death, several Instagram users questioned the truth of the Houston police statement.
“Nonsense!” wrote a user. “Something doesn’t stick,” another said. One user compared McKissic’s death with the death of a student in Mississippi, who was found hanged by a tree, which the authorities described as suicide.
Another comment on Instagram drew attention to the deaths of several people recovered by Lake Lady Bird in Austin. A similar group on social media described deaths as a result of the action of a serial killer. Earlier this month, a study by the University of Texas that evaluated such drownings over two decades, while finding no evidence to indicate the action of a serial killer.
‘No murderer’ say the authorities
The mayor of the city of Houston was called upon to respond to allegations that a serial killer is active in the city after finding 16 corpses in the same area.
“Something is happening,” said Joseph Giacalone, a New York Police Captain and Criminal Law Professor at Penn State-Lehigh Valley. “Coincidence; Unlikely. Careful examination is required, including 48 hours before discovering their disappearance, “he added.
The order of seemingly drowning is reminiscent of another alarming series of deaths in the waters of Lady Bird in Austin, Texas.
Earlier this week, on October 8, Houston’s police in Texas pulled the corpse of another man from White Oak Bayou. The horrible discovery comes after finding six corpses in Houston’s marshes in September, raising the total number to 16 for the whole year.
Police have not yet announced the cause of death or have found a link between the corpses that have been recovered, but this has not stopped city residents from worrying that a serial killer may be active in their streets.
County forensic expert, Harris has released three new identities and another cause of death for people who were found dead, according to the latest public records.
The County Institute of County Sciences, thanks to three people, whose bodies were recovered from the Houston bays in September, as 34 -year -old Seth Hansen, 63 -year -old Nenulfo Alvarado and Mikaela Miller, who were not known. The cause of the death of each of the two remains unknown.
City officials insist that there is no serial killer free or a relationship between deaths. Police have announced that there are no signs of criminal activity.
But the pattern continued when another corpse was recovered from White Oak Bayou near the nodes of 10 and 45 intercourse 10.
According to Fox Houston 26, bodies recovered from the city’s swamps belong to both men and women, between 20 and 60 years old.