"Rumors have persisted for years that a serial killer is prowling Interstate 94, hunting young men in college bars and plunging them underwater."
I happen to know deaths like this have occurred in Lacrosse, Wisconsin as well. Interstate 90 runs through it.
It is not funny!
The deaths aren't funny. This ridiculous notion of a serial killer being responsible, even after investigators called some of the deaths accidental, is so sad that it IS funny. A drowning serial killer who can and chooses to overpower college males and hold them underwater until they die isn't only funny, it's stupid. Let's not even go into what it might take to get a college aged male from a bar where his buddies and the girls are to a location where he can be overpowered and drowned.
Idle minds.
Lax is my old home town, and I still work there. The problem is the deaths of a number of male, college students who are getting stinking drunk at downtown bars just a few blocks form the Mississippi, getting disoriented, staggering down to Riverside Park, and falling into the river. Once in the river, especially this time of year, it's difficult to get out alive. There is NO!! serial killer.