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From local waterways and bayous in Houston over 200 bodies have been found since 2017 after this phenomenon people took to social media to spread the news only making it more popular and making more believe in the theory.

In September 2025 five bodies where found in a single week bringing the total to 34 for the year at that point this brought even more people to share their opinions with some calling the so called serial killer the bayou butcher this only fuelled interest.

Experts do say that the human brain will always look for patterns like this especially when it comes to tragic events that people have a morbid curiosity in rather than just accepting the unrelated circumstances.

Here are the main reasons officials rule out a serial killer:

1. Although some killers don’t most go for one demographic but the people found in the waterways range from 14-69 and vary in genders and ethnicities.

2. All the different cause of death ranging from drowning to suicide and medical emergencies some of the bodies found were murdered but are unrelated.

3. Steep concrete slopes would make it very difficult for a person to climb out of the waterways especially if they are a weaker individual or intoxicated.

4. Along the bayou banks there are multiple homeless facilities homeless people will have higher risk of illness and accidents near water.

In Austin there was a similar thing where men where found in lady birds lake online the so called killer was titled the Rainy street ripper but local authorities quickly squashed the claims for similar reasons.

Stephen port would meet men on grindr hence the name over a one-two year period he killed four men he would invite them round to his flat in barking and would drug them with a fatal dose of GBH (gamma-hydroxybutyrate) he would sexually assault his victims once they were drugged and dump their bodies close to his flat two victims were found by the same dog walker near a church and another was found in a sitting position near the entrance to his block of flats.

He remains as one of the most recent known uk serial killers other than Lucy letby there has not been many known killers.

It is believed the police were at fault for Stephen’s spree of killing as they didn’t originally connect the bodies even though they were close together and all known gay men some do dispute if some of the victims were actually out as gay.

Port was initially arrested in June 2014 for perverting the course of justice after he lied about finding his first victim, Anthony Walgate, outside his flat. He was convicted and jailed for this, but police failed to examine his laptop or link his escort-hiring habits to other local deaths.

The fourth victim jack Taylor was found a year later and his own family investigated his murder as they did not believe their son overdosed they researched the other deaths and personally found cctv footage of jack taylor meeting a man that ended up being port so they pushed police to release this footage.

This footage made homicide detectives take over especially after pressure from families they finally landed on port after matching the description on the cctv and been spotted with gay men so he was arrested October 2015 and charged of all four murders in June 2016.

It’s just unbelievable to think that if not for jack taylors family the dots may of never connected.

List of victims:

Anthony Walgate (23) - met port on june 17 2024 and was discovered a couple days later on the 19th left in a sitting position.

Gabriel Kovari (22) - he was killed either 26th or 27th of August 2014 he was found by a dog walker the next day port called his sister on the 27th saying a body was in his bed but she didn’t take him seriously.

Daniel Whitworth (21) - was killed 19th September 2014 and went missing on the 18th when he met port he was found by the same dog walker in a similar position just on a different day port planted a fake suicide note in his hand.

Jack Taylor (25) - was killed 13th September 2015 he was found the next day over the walk where kovari and Walgate were found.

Between 2011-2015 58 people died from GBH overdoses some people believe port was responsible for some as some were gay men but police never found any evidence like dna in the other four to link him to the murders.

Known interchangeably as the "Scarborough Rapist" and the "Schoolgirl Killer," Paul Bernardo and his then-wife Karla Homolka were responsible for the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of multiple schoolgirls in the early 1990s.

Between 1986 and 1990, Bernardo committed a series of brutal rapes and sexual assaults in Scarborough, Ontario. Later, alongside Homolka, he sexually assaulted and murdered two teenagers, Leslie Mahaffy (14) and Kristen French (15), videotaping their depraved acts.

Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison with a dangerous offender designation.

Bernardo remains in federal custody serving his life sentence. In late 2024, he was denied parole for a third time after a parole board determined he still poses an undue risk to the public.