A Boston man claims to have survived an assault by an alleged serial killer in Austin, telling British tabloid The Day by day Mail he was drugged and pushed off a bridge after an evening of ingesting.
The report comes as a string of deaths round Austin’s Woman Fowl Lake has fueled on-line hypothesis in regards to the presence of a serial killer within the state’s capital metropolis. Nevertheless, police and consultants argue the deaths are the results of out-of-towners being unable to carry their liquor and drowning within the centrally positioned physique of water.
At the least 10 our bodies have been pulled from Austin’s Woman Fowl Lake up to now 20 months.
Boston resident Jeff Jones, 38, advised The Day by day Mail he was barhopping in Austin in June 2023 as a part of a batchelor social gathering journey when he awakened practically two weeks later in a Central Texas hospital with extreme accidents.
Jones stated he’d been ingesting on the Iron Cactus then headed to the Rustic Faucet and Play on East sixth Road earlier than turning into separated from friends at round 1 a.m.
He advised the Mail he would not bear in mind something after that. Nevertheless, he by some means managed to fall 25 toes from the West sixth Road Bridge. A passerby made an nameless 911 name at about 4 a.m. to report {that a} physique was mendacity immobile on the backside of the bridge, in keeping with the Mail.
Jones was rushed to Dell Seton Medical Middle shortly earlier than 5 a.m., the place medics found that he had severely broken very important organs and had damaged seven vertebrae. He additionally broke his shoulder, elbow and two ribs.
What’s extra, a drug take a look at confirmed that he examined optimistic for Benzodiazepine, a powerful sedative used to deal with extreme anxiousness, the tabloid studies.
Much more weird, Jones was found in the identical spot because the physique of Randy Lexvold, which was retrieved in 2019. Lexvold was additionally visiting from out of city when his physique ended up on the backside of the West sixth Road Bridge, Austin’s KVUE studies.
After being positioned in two separate medically induced comas and present process a number of surgical procedures, Jones was discharged from the hospital 17 days later, The Day by day Mail studies.
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