Voices for the Dead: Interview #2

"His dream was to have his own garage . . . He had a lot of passion for his job and took every opportunity to learn all he could.”

 

On November 4th 2012, Joshua Swalls, 22, mysteriously vanished from the city of Indianapolis while visiting a friend. Three weeks later he reappeared again in a nearby retention pond, drowned.

Dive recovery experts on the scene said Swall's body had been in the water for only about a week, but police have ceased to investigate his death and are suggesting he accidentally drowned while swimming. 

 

His family disagrees. They believe Josh Swalls was murdered. Eponymous Rox for Killing Killers interviewed them, and officially registered their voices for the dead.

 

The David Gerken 'Smiley Face' Drowning

It's being hushed up and whitewashed as I speak, but, for all you fellow Smiley Face theorists, the David Gerken drowning in November 2012 behind the Ralph Wilson Stadium in New York, is the one to watch right now.

 

That's the disappearance and drowning death that could potentially bust THE CASE OF THE DROWNING MEN wide open, I believe. 

 

I've already provided comprehensive coverage of this matter for Crime Magazine where I'm a contributing writer, and since that website has exclusivity to the work in terms of online publication, I'll just provide the link to the article here for any cyber-sleuths who want to investigate all the suspicious events surrounding 26-year-old Gerken's case on their own. 

The title of the Gerken exposé is Wrongful Death, or Bloody Murder?  Feel free to share the piece too if you like; I'm pretty sure it can be read in its entirety there without a paid subscription.

 

Gerken's untimely (and thus far unexplained) demise is what's called "a quiet little murder" but, who knows, maybe the truth can still out before a hefty, hard-to-refuse cash settlement is offered to the family and a gag order puts the facts regarding his killing forever in the dark.

 

If the truth about it ever does come to light, however, it will very much resemble the same one floating just beneath the murky surface of similar fatalities which have been happening in America's northland these past 15 years. Hundreds of those would have to be revisited and reclassified as homicides as well.

 

And you'd be stunned to discover then who these 'Smiley Killers' really are.

 

On that note, Smiley Face victim Walton Matthew Ward's mother will join Killing Killers this week to help shed light on the circumstances of her 23-year-old son's recent drowning in October 2012. 

 

Her name is Julie Kvinge and I've posed her with about three-dozen questions which I think you'll find the answers to quite intriguing.

 

I've also sent her and her family on a mission to take some pictures of the Indianapolis area that Matt disappeared from, including along the shore of the White River where his body was found on October 24th.

 

It will be interesting to see if they discover any new graffiti down there...

 

The Ward interview, along with accompanying photographs, will be posted on this site shortly in the Voices for the Dead section, so look there soon for it.

 

 

Thanks for dropping by today--

Eponymous Rox

 

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Joshua Swalls, David Gerken, Jonathan Dailey, Matthew Ward, Colin Gillis, Tom Hecht, Nathan Bihlmaier, Franco Garcia, Harsha Maddula, Michael Philbin, Eric Duffey, Philipp Patnaude, Tyler Blalock...