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Posted on 06/05/2025 11:08:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rumours of a serial killer in a major U.S. city are swirling after 38 bodies have been pulled from a lake in three years.
The most recent discovery was found by a paddleboarder in Lady Bird Lake in Austin Texas, on Tuesday morning.
The discovery has renewed fears that a mass murderer, dubbed the ‘Rainy Street Ripper’, is on the loose in the city with close to a million residents.
Austin’s police force has insisted a killer is not roaming the streets, and has said only one of the cases was a homicide.
But half a dozen of the bodies dragged from Lady Bird Lake have causes of death which remain unknown.
The rumours were reignited when a paddleboarder discovered a body at 7am on Tuesday. It is believed to belong to a teenage boy who went missing on Sunday.
Early investigations show the teenager was with his family on kayaks and paddleboards on the lake when he fell into the river and did not resurface, according to Fox 7 Austin.
It was, however, the 30th male corpse to be discovered in the lake since 2022.
Of all 38 deaths associated with Lady Bird Lake, 60 per cent were aged between 39 and 49, while two were teenagers.
Drowning has been the top cause of death, with suicide, drug overdoses and natural causes being other reasons.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Moore/REX/Shutterstock (15049484k) Austin, Texas skyline with Lady Bird Lake in foreground. Austin Texas Skyline, Austin, Texas, USA - 26 Dec 2024 A string of corpses have been found in 2025 alone (Picture: Scott Moore/REX/Shutterstock) Two corpses were found in or around the river in April as well.
One was discovered under a nearby bridge, with the cause of death believed to be a ‘cardiac arrest incident’.
A few days later, police were back at the river again after another death in Lady Bird Lake, which cops said they were not treating as a homicide.
Officials are worried the large party scene in downtown Austin might be behind the number of deaths in the lake.
Rainey Street, a popular bar scene, is a favourite spot for bachelorette and bachelor parties but lies just feet from the river.
In response, the city has put up fencing and lighting around the lake as part of $800,000 upgrades.
They are also parking ambulances at the end of Rainey Street to take home any partygoers who have drunk past their limits.
This has not stopped speculation, however.
Pictured: Jon Honey aka Jonathan Honey https://www.fox7austin.com/news/body-recovered-longhorn-dam-lady-bird-lake-austin-texas AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin Police Department (APD) has identified the body found in Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam on April 15. Police said around 1:21 p.m., officers responded to a check welfare urgent call in the 2700 block of Canterbury St. regarding a possible body in the water.When first responders arrived, they found a body. He was later identified as 30-year-old John Christopher Hays-Clark.While the investigation is still in the early stages, APD does not suspect foul play was involved based on the information provided at this time. The investigation remains ongoing, and we have no further information to provide. 33-year-old Jonathan Honey was found dead in the lake in 2023 (Picture: Cunningham Turch Funeral Home – Alexandria)
A petition was launched last July, gathering more than 5,200 signatures, which was titled ‘Austin Police Department – Acknowledge That The Austin Drownings May Not Be Accidents’, according to My San Antonio.
The petition focuses on the case of 21-year-old Christian Pugh, who disappeared after a night out on Rainey Street in November 2019.
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Sounds like Dexter.
Dexter killed only people who needed killing, theoretically..............
When the apartment residents of the places taken over the the illegal alien gang were forced to pay to the gang lords and one resident had his finger cut off as a warning to the others, the female Dem declared: This is only a few apartment
complexes, not all of them as the Republicans make it sound.
Only a few.
So now the soft on crime Dems could say 38 dead only represents “a few.”
Police suspect foul play.
The last death was a kid on a paddleboard who fell off his board.
That’s not a serial murder.
The rest were drunks that fell into the river.
Gee, ya think? Only 38 and the headline writer is wondering???
True...I guess I was refering to the fact that Dexter always dumped the bodies out in the ocean...and this guy dumps them all in the lake.
If I had to guess a Texas town that had a serial killer targeting men, my guess would be Austin.
It’s full of perverts, has a huge homo population, has horrible police, has liberal ineffective governance, bums are everywhere, and has a transient population that doesn’t really know each other.
OD’s and homeless as well.
Yep, I avoid going there at all costs.
How do you spell, “headline click bait”? The facts in the article have nothing to do with the headline.
It’s British......................
Forget it Jake... It’s Austintown.
I’ve skinny dipped in that lake and even with members of the Children of God cult, skinny dipping, drunkenness, every drug in the book, it is a party lake and guys drown in it.
I think they got catfished.
Ya THINK????????
What rocket scientists we have “protecting” us.
God help us!
Summed up very well. Normal Texans stay clear of Austin and if they are required to go there, get out before dark.
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