Bone-chilling data has revealed nearly 200 corpses have been pulled from Houston’s bayous in the last eight years, prompting terrified locals to demand answers.
Officials continue to insist that the alarmingly high figure is not the work of a serial killer.
But since 2017, 189 dead bodies have been found in the Texas city’s swampy waters according to Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office records, obtained by KPRC 2.
Of these deaths, 17 were classified as murders with 75 deaths marked as ‘unexplained’.
‘That’s definitely worthy of further investigation,’ Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and criminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley, told the Daily Mail.
Fears of a serial killer were ignited in late September after officials announced that five dead bodies had been recovered over the course of just five days.
On Friday The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said that the causes of all but one of deaths still remain undetermined, per CW39. The death of Arnulfo Alvarado was ruled an accidental drowning mixed with the effects of methamphetamine.
Since the start of the year, the death toll has risen to 27 according to the data obtained by KPRC 2.
Serial killer? I think not. It was climate change!