Y'know, Italy is kinda weird

[Trivial]

Interesting. I'll look into it. There's an ongoing spree in LaCrosse and along the Mississippi. No cops have opened up. They will discuss drugs, gangs, but not this.

http://mobile.onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/smileyfacekiler.html

every year like clockwork and about the same season. There are even NDAs I'm told that the local radio consortium makes talent sign to not discuss it.

LaCrosse runs on college and smuggling money. The cover up is intense. I suspect a cabal of some sort in that the killer has always managed to separate full grown men and drown them without a reported mark. That they're always white may be a factor too, but it's not really a sure indicator of racism.

One of the ones mentioned was Native American. I've looked at a couple of other articles as well, and they mention 40 men in 11 states over the last decade. Race and age breakdown was not given for those men.

There is a lot of information missing. Most glaringly, the rate at which men went missing or were found drowned in those areas in the previous decades.

Other questions also need to be answered, such as how these disappearance/drowning rates compare to rates in other cities with rivers running through them, and whether there are other reasons black men might not be drowning in the same numbers, such as a  greater likelihood of sticking together due to a history of violence against lone black men.

It might be worth noting that I found a case of a 23-year-old black man who drowned in the Black River last summer, which also raises the question of whether there are other cases of black men drowning that the serial killer theorists are disregarding because they don't fit the profile that makes their theory work.

Quite honestly, living in an area where people disappear and drown on a regular basis, I find it hard not to see this as a great example of apophenia.

Shalim was a friend of my sister.  He was an immigrant iirc and honestly didn't go to the bars that other black men usually frequent. I mean look at the make up of his friends.

https://www.facebook.com/shalim.augustine/friends




Eau Claire may be a good comparison, bars in walking distance, river by college.

[Trivial]

I mean if you look at the maps, the campus in LaCrosse is in the opposite direction of the river and the Eau Claire campus is right on it.  Bars are on other side of river.

The bars in LaCrosse that they frequented are in the 4th-3rd st, Pearl St area.  There are LOTS of bars over there.  Don't like one? wander across the street.

*edit Shalim's also doesn't look related, he was last seen at Huck Finn's-on-the-water, which is, on the water.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Notice anything weird about this story?

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/03/fisherman_spots_body_floating.html#incart_river

[Bruno]

Cops got there kinda fast?

[The Wizard Joseph]

Sort of odd the way the reporting reads. "A body was discovered in a river. The body turned out to be dead and unidentified." To paraphrase.


Also I sense a disturbance in the force... as if millions of angels were crying out to warn me and were suddenly silenced.  Or like if I had a PKE meter that registered sarcasm it would have exploded and took my good hand with it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

No one was reported to have jumped from a bridge Sunday, a Fire Bureau spokesman said.

In Portland? On a beautiful sunny Spring weekend day?

WHAT MADNESS IS AFOOT? 

[The Wizard Joseph]

No one was reported to have jumped from a bridge Sunday, a Fire Bureau spokesman said.

In Portland? On a beautiful sunny Spring weekend day?

WHAT MADNESS IS AFOOT? 

  You know, I missed that! Read it a few times and didn't catch on.

Bodies washing up without the fire department even getting any jumper reports.
They must not be quite on the ball out there. I just wouldn't feel safe with a fire department like that!