It's the ghost of Paul Wellstone.
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"Rumors have persisted for years that a serial killer is prowling Interstate 94, hunting young men in college bars and plunging them underwater."
LOL! Somebody needs to study serial killers.
Never drink, walk, or run drunk alone.
Parents: Make sure your "kids" away from home make friends before they mix martinis.
1. I would think that some signs of struggle (cuts, bruises, etc.) would be present if these men were being drowned.
2. "The victims fit a profile: white or Asian men in their early 20s, generally around 5-foot-8 and 165 pounds and athletic, with good grades" - gee, sounds like college students of average height and weight. Now if they had found all these people were 43 year old freshmen they might have a point.
3. The victims went to college within 50 miles of I-94 and 94% of the drownings took place within 100 miles of I-94, what a shocking coincidence?
4. "three-quarters of the disappearance occurred when the moon was less than half-full." when the lack of light is more likely to lead to tripping/slipping/stumbling into the water?
5. "No victims were women." - because women a)don't tend to drink as heavily as men and b)don't tend to leave bars alone, especially if they are really drunk (then either their friends or some guy they will regret knowing later takes them home)
We humans are so good at looking for patterns that we often see them where they don't really exist.