Social media posts about a potential serial killer in Seattle set off ripples of concern throughout the area this weekend, but several law enforcement agencies said it simply isn’t true.
The story appears to have started with an email from a manager of a Seattle bar to the staff, which circulated on the internet and was later publicized by @dubseatv, a Seattle-based news aggregator.
According to screenshots of the email, numerous sources were saying someone is abducting and dismembering women in their 30s. The email added that all the women were out with their friends, getting drinks and were abducted between midnight and 7 a.m. A second email further asserted that three women in their 30s had been found murdered, their bodies discovered south of SODO, with the latest woman found at the end of State Route 509. The email claimed they were posed the exact same way., on Oct. 7, a woman was found dead along southbound SR 509. The sheriff’s office did not publicly provide details of the incident.
The social media posts from @dubseatv appeared on Saturday afternoon, saying King County detectives have been notifying locals about a serial killer in Seattle. King County Detectives have been notifying locals about a serial killer in Seattle right now. Multiple women’s bodies have been discovered recently in the Burien and SODO area, apparently posed in the same way.
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