this was posted by "banbury" on sfkillers.com
This is something I cut and pasted and much of this is already known but there are a few things that I DO NOT want people to forget,one of which is the Gary Snyder connection :
Clues left at Duluth drownings
Ken Christiansen, 19, died in Duluth’s Chester Creek on Friday, April 13, 2001. Christiansen died on Good Friday, the day of rememberance of Jesus dying on the cross. There is a blue cross and the phrase, “Jesus saves” next to the smiley face.
The phrase “You cant’s see what you’re not looking for” is painted at scene of the drowning. There is a smiley face inside the letter “o” in the phrase, “You can’t see what you’re not looking for.”
The name Christiansen has “chrisitian” in it. “The Chrisitan has long been dead,” quote from a Gary Snyder poem had been written under the Chester Creek bridge. [Gary Snyder poems]
Gary Snyder is a buddhist and embraces other religions that are similar such as Native American and Witchcraft.
In the “Redskins” chapter of the book, Earth House, Snyder wrote “Most tribes apparently achieved these results simply through yogic-type disciplines…..” and “One religion tradition of this communion with nature which has survived into historic Western times is what has been called Witchcraft. The altered and pelted figure painted on the cave wall of Trois Freres, a shaman-dancer-poet, is a prototype of Shiva and the Devil.”
Snyder refers to this “altered” “painted” figure as the “Devil.” This may explain why 9 out of 22 smiley faces have devil horns.
In describing this painted altered devil, Snyder wrote, “the Devil appeared in the likeness of a pretty boy….”
[ most of the young college guys were good-looking. ]
Hiawatha and Columbus connections
At the scene of a drowning in La Crosse, Wisconsin there is a large statue of Hiawatha.
Native American links
There are many Native American clues connected to the Midwest drownings. They are far too coincidental not be connected.
- Chippewa River and Hiawatha statue involving Wisconsin drownings
- The word, ‘Sinsinawa’ at a drowning in Iowa
- Chris Jenkins dressed as a Native American on the night he was drowned in Minneapolis
- Many drownings have occurred near a Columbus, Hudson, Native American (Hiawatha) symbol, street, statue, etc.
Christopher Columbus is a person in U.S. history hated by many Native Americans because of his cruel treatment of them. This may be why ‘Columbus’ has shown up as a clue left at the scene of drownings. Columbus also represents the “white man’s” takeover of Native American lands. Because of this, Columbus would also be hated by a Snyder-type cult.
An interesting fact about the bloodhound that located the scent of Josh in Collegeville, Minnesota and Chris Jenkins in Minneapolis, is that the scents of both victims were tracked to a Catholic church on the St. Johns campus in Collegeville. This campus has a Knights of Columbus chapter.
Looking for Hiawatha connections to other drownings, we found a Hiawatha Street in Columbus, Ohio near where Brian Shaffer, an Ohio State University medical student went missing April 2, 2006.
In Duluth, near the smiley face is the word “Ugly” with the “U” being red and shaped like a horseshoe and the rest of the word being gray color. The Ohio State University colors are gray and red and their stadium is called “The Horseshoe” because of its “U” shape. Their stadium looks like a big red “U”, just like the one at Chester Creek in Duluth.
Brian Shaffer, 27, an Ohio State University medical student was last seen April 2, 2006, at the Ugly Tuna Saloona (spelled correctly). Brian Shaffer Archive
Many investigators believe that the drowning of 19-year-old Ohio University student Keith Noble and the disappearance of Brian Shaffer are related.
Streets named “High” are at the locations where both victims were last seen. This street name is also in Duluth near Chester Creek and is near other locations of drownings.
Since quotations from author/poet Gary Snyder were found at the Duluth location of two drownings, the killers may be using Snyder’s writings as a demented template for the killings.
The Smiley Face Killers are a cult whose mission is to destroy people (generally white people) they view as being capitalistic and who do not conform to their way of thinking. (See Snyder’s poem Smokey The Bear and A Curse On The Men.)
They view humans as less superior than plants and animals. They believe humans hinder life on Earth. (See the book Back On Fire and essay Energy is Eternal Delight.)
They view white college men as capitalists and the source of the problems of the U.S. and around the world. They are compelled to murder these men and believe they are doing the world a tremendous service.
They especially resent white capitalist men who “drink to it” as written about in the poem Money Goes Upstream.
The Smiley Face Killers focus on Snyder’s writings as their religion/lifestyle and they could belong to any race, including white. Snyder’s writings focus around Native American religion and Buddhism, but also have a mix of other religions as well. Snyder even quotes the Bible occasionally, but is clearly anti-Christian.
Because they feel the need to kill white males, they must do it in a way that they will not be caught. At the same time, they do have a radical message to preach, thus the reason to leave painted messages and taunts i.e., “You can’t see what you’re not looking for.”
The reason for the smiley face is to be comic as indicated in Snyder’s Smokey The Bear poem. The smiley face is also the “Face” and the “quiet smile” of those dead “mortals” as indicated in the poem Maitreya The Future Buddha.
The deaths do not happen during full moons. Probably to better conceal the killers.
The Duluth writings are a cryptic link to the Chris Jenkins murder in Minneapolis. The word “Ally” appears next to the smiley face in Duluth and had been written by the same person (same hand writing) who quoted the Snyder poem about killing young white men.
Snyder had a poem called “The Dead by the Side of the Road” which seems to be the template for the Chris Jenkins homicide. Of the many published poems by Gary Snyder, this one happens to be the one published in Minnesota by Ally Press. Too coincidental to not be connected.
Chris Jenkins’ body was found in the Mississippi River in Minneapolis just a few miles north of Highway 5, which also acts as an Interstate. He was drowned on Halloween and was wearing a Native American costume with a red feather. The feather was found using a bloodhound next to drops of Chris’ blood.
There are many connections between the Chris Jenkins murder, the Snyder poems, and what is written in Duluth — Snyder’s writings, Native American, red feather, Interstate Highway 5, Halloween, Dead by the Side of the Road poem, Ally, Ally Press, ect.
At Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis, there is another Hiawatha statue. Minnehaha Park is almost exactly between where the bodies of Chris Jenkins and Chris Norby were found in the Mississippi River and Interstate Highway 5. There is a Hiawatha Avenue and a Columbus Avenue that runs almost the entire length between Highway 5 and the area of where their bodies were found.
The writings at the other drowning scenes should begin to make sense once applied to Snyder’s writings.
