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Face found near possible drowning site

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h169/avataralley/missing/zsfjoshsouz.jpg ALBANY - In a bizarre, new twist in the case of Joshua Szostak, whose body was found in the Hudson River on April 22, a smiley face has been spotted painted on a tree at the Port of Albany.

Police believe Szostak went into the Hudson River near the port on Dec. 23.
The smiley face is similar to ones found painted across the country. In each case, the faces have appeared near where young men have drowned.

Two former New York City detectives believe it's the work of a national gang targeting young, drunken college men. They say there are 40 similar cases in 11 states.

Albany police say they do not consider the face, found Wednesday, to be credible. They maintain their case is closed.

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S429608.shtml?cat=300

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Smily Face Murders

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Smiley Face Murders - The Smiley Face gang have committed 40 murders in 11 states with the loose-knit gang of killers leaving a smiley face and mystery clue where they dumped each young man in the water, including the breakthrough clue, Sinsinawa.
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The Smiley Face murders were cracked by retired NYC detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte who conducted their own investigation into the random murders of young men last seen leaving bars or college parties before going missing and being found drowned months later.
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In their investigation of the gang of smiley face killers, the detectives made a chilling discovery as they backtracked from where each victim’s body was found to where they believe it was placed in the water.
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At many locations, they found a smiley face painted on a nearby rock, often with smiley face gang member’s nicknames added as graffiti, and obscure clues like “Sinsiniwa” that they found while looking into a Michigan drowning case.
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The detectives were puzzled by “Sinsiniwa” and couldn’t figure out the obscure clue until they went to Dubuque, Iowa a few months later to investigate another possible smiley face murder, that of a college student named Matt Kuzinski whose body was found on Sinsiniwa Ave.
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Because the smiley face gang would plant evidence such as wallets or cell phones far away from where they actually dumped their victim’s unconscious bodies in the water, local police following up on the missing person’s reports would assume the young men were accidental drowning victimes instead of deliberate murders.
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In fact, 39 of the 40 cases investigated by retired NYC detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte are still classified as drownings and only one, that of Chris Henkins of Minneapolis, has been labeled a homicide.
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The smiley face gang is loosely connected via the Internet and various members meet up, kidnap young college-age men off the street by throwing them into a waiting cargo van, then torture their victims for hours before dumping the unconscious young men into a nearby river.
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The smiley face and associated graffiti is their method of bragging about what they’ve done and the water washes away all the DNA evidence.

There may be many more victims and retired detectives Gannon and Duarte have gone public with what they know in hopes of getting an FBI task force assigned to catch these killers.

And that’s the latest news on the Smiley Face Murders (http://a11news.com/57/smiley-face-murders/).



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