One down

Looks like one of the murders has been wrapped up after an arrest in Minnesota. It is certainly good news for Madison and the police department.

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LaCrosse river deaths part of a nationwide serial killing scheme?

That's the hypothesis of detectives after an alleged "smiley face" killer, according to this CNN piece.

The FBI sounds quite skeptical, however.

I've heard numerous projections over the years about a serial murderer in LaCrosse (with nine tragic river deaths, including one man from my hometown of Kiel, it seems the possibility shouldn't be ruled out entirely). Still, I've never heard of a theory positing national level organization to the crimes.

Reading this list of the Wisconsin and Minnesota victims supposedly linked in this scheme, it seems rather far-fetched, in my mind, to suppose a serial killer on a larger scale. The time and geographic distance between locations seems prohibitive to any idea of a concerted effort. To expand this randomness and supposedly linkage to a multi-state interstate corridor seems far-fetched - some in the Wisconsin/Minnesota list are not close to I-94 (like the Herr incident in Sheboygan).

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