The Smiley Face Murders

Tonight, my special guest is investigator and author William Ramsey who's here to discuss the very chilling phenomena of The Smiley Face Murders.

During a night out with friends on January 25, 2017, 23-year-old Dakota James left his friends at a bar on Liberty Avenuein downtown Pittsburgh. James was presumably going home to the north side of Pittsburgh. Surveillance camera footage from the Cultural District caught James walking through Katz Plaza as well as down an alley toward Fort Duquesne Boulevard. This footage seems to be the last known footage of him alive. The main theory is that he used the alley to cross Fort Duquesne Boulevard to Clemente Bridge to urinate in the Allegheny River. According to his friends, James had been possibly drugged and attempted to be abducted six weeks before his disappearance. Kevin Gannon thinks that James was also drugged on the night he disappeared. Gannon believes that James was then abducted, held for some time, killed and dumped in a body of water. 

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