New Docuseries on Oxygen: Smiley Faced Killers: The Hunt for Justice

[pittsburghgirl]

Good question about the clothing, although if they were held somewhere, no reason they shouldn't be in the clothes they went missing in.

 

[FlamingoLady]

Good question about the clothing, although if they were held somewhere, no reason they shouldn't be in the clothes they went missing in.

Exactly, except some of them were missing for weeks. What the heck was going on for WEEKS? You'd think the clothes would be extremely soiled (?) or torn, or missing certain pieces.....It's just a question that I wish they would have addressed while addressing so many other aspects of evidence recovery. Granted, it's not as fun to watch as a pig being dressed in clothes .....

 

[pittsburghgirl]

If they were found in water, the dirty clothes issue may not apply--the clothes would be soiled by immersion in rivers or lakes.

 

[FlamingoLady]

Yes. I guess I just can't get my mind around someone being held someplace for weeks with who knows what going on, yet they keep all their clothes on.

 

[pittsburghgirl]

The idea of keeping people for weeks is nuts enough; if that actually happened/happens, the abductors might provide sweats, etc.

 

[An0maly]

Yeah it's gone. I went to Widener and lived not far so I would walk there. But even before I went there different times. I posted the pictures I took behind Bootleggers after they found Tommy. I thought Tommy was killed by a bouncer or someone inside the bar and stored in a freezer and then dumped in the ridley creek. That might be far fetched.

Not far fetched at all. It makes sense. He could have been kept in a truck with a freezer as well, didn't have to be in the bar itself. I sent you a PM

 

[An0maly]

Graffiti

This is some graffiti on the back of an abandoned building next to where Bootleggers bar used to be (the one where Tommy Booth was last seen alive)

The creek is literally a few feet from this graffiti. If he went in where they think he did, his body would have had to float several hundred yards downstream past this building as well. Unlikely in 1 or 2 feet of water.. but it does flood sometimes.

Does anyone know if this has meaning? Gang symbols? The smiley faces are still visible on the back of the bar itself also.. they painted over them.. you can still see them. One looks pencil and had to be more recent?

 

[An0maly]

Here are some pics.. if you scroll down you'll also see a map of supposed victims. Kinda oddly similar to that graffiti but that's far fetched.

Back of abandoned building downstream from Bootleggers (used to be the Delco Gym decades ago)


Also here are some pics of the back of the bar itself and some of the strange symbols.. I will try to get some pics of the painted over smiley faces, but they are also visible on the Oxygen TV documentary. The shoes in the pics might just be random debris, who knows. But they are very old.
This case is definitely deserving of its own thread. Everyone in that bar that night should have been interviewed bartenders,bouncers, bachelorette party (so should the cops or ex cops that were there that night). Unbelievable that someone responsible for this is just walking free today, who knows if it was the cops themselves? Supposedly they had an altercation with his friends that night. Anyway this was no accidental drowning.


Back of Bootleggers which has long been abandoned, as well as recovery area in the creek

 

[rjfjet]

Looking forward to the Booth story, which is local for me. I don't even think we have a topic in the forum for his case.

Yes me also but I don’t really think it was the smiley face killer knowing the area pretty good on that end I think it was a someone in the bar that night now if he knew them or not I don’t know