After the 19th body in three years was pulled from Lady Bird Lake, a grieving family is calling for an investigation into the possibility of a serial killer. The body of Irewamiri Shote, 17, is the ...

Social media rumors about a serial killer being on the loose in Austin, Texas, have reignited conversations around the ‘Lady Bird Lake killer’. The recent rumors surfaced after three bodies were ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A study conducted by Texas State University in cooperation with the Austin Police Department (APD) has found no credible evidence supporting social media theories that a serial killer ...

This summer will mark three years since the first of a string of bodies turned up in Lady Bird Lake, sparking the rumor of an Austin serial killer. In 2022 six bodies were found in the murky waters of ...

The “Rainey Street Ripper” — the rumored serial killer allegedly pushing people into Lady Bird Lake — is nothing but an urban myth, according to a new study by Texas State University criminologists ...

A new independent study has poured cold water on one of Austin’s most chilling rumors: that a serial killer is stalking young men in the Rainey Street Historic District and drowning them in Lady Bird ...