The "Rainy 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 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Kim Rossmo, director of the center, Zena Rossouw, a doctoral instructional assistant in Texas State's School of Criminal Justice & Criminology and Edward R. Anderson with the Austin Police ...