5 investigations
A chronological list of young men recovered from Pittsburgh's three rivers between 2011 and 2026, with documented forensic findings and medical examiner rulings.
On the morning of February 3, 2008, a volunteer search team pulled Tommy Booth's body from a foot and a half of water 30 yards behind Bootlegger's Bar in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania. The recovery scene itself contradicts the drowning ruling.
Tommy Booth left Bootlegger's Bar in Woodland, PA on January 19, 2008. For 14 days, nobody could find him. The timeline of his disappearance contradicts the official ruling.
The Smiley Face Killer theory proposes that a coordinated network of offenders has drowned young men near waterways across the U.S. The FBI rejected the gang theory in 2008. The individual cases are a separate question.
Dozens of high-profile cold cases sit on forensic shelves with DNA profiles waiting for a genealogy search. These are the cases next in line.