The /b/ Serial Killer

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In 2015, another anonymous user on 4chan put up two pictures: one a glamor shot of a young woman, and the other her dead body, lying in bed. "I have killed several women for pleasure," he wrote. "If you can guess a name I will upload a picture. [ . . . ] If you guess all of the names I will show you where I dumped a body in 1999."

People started guessing as many women's names as they could, and true to his word, the user added more and more gruesome photographs of dead women. The pictures he had didn't show up anywhere else on the Internet—and they didn't quite look like the photos a police officer would take at a crime scene.

When people started looking into it, they found GPS coordinates coded into the pictures that put the user in Carlin, Nevada. And they found out that the first woman was Shauna Maynard, a woman who went missing in and has never been found.

The FBI was contacted, but they haven't tracked down Shauna Maynard or the /b/ Serial Killer yet, nor have they proven that body in the picture was really hers. The Las Vegas police, for their part, have said that they think it's a hoax.

The police, though, won't explain why they don't believe it–and not everyone's convinced that it's a lie. After all, as one user pointed out: "It's not the first time a has been on /b/."

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