Texans are bracing themselves as
Fear is crawling along Houston’s waterways.
Bodies keep surfacing, and the explanations aren’t easing anyone’s mind.
Officials insist there’s no serial killer, but residents are counting corpses, not press conferences.
Whispers spread through neighborhoods, bars, and online threads, each theory darker than the last.
In Houston, the numbers alone feel like an accusation: dozens of bodies in bayous over two years, three more in a single holiday week.
For many residents, it doesn’t matter how calmly officials speak at podiums; grief and unanswered questions sound louder.
Families of the dead want more than statistical reassurance or theories about homelessness and illness quietly ending in the water.
They want names, timelines, autopsies, cameras, patrols — proof that every life pulled from the current actually mattered.
Experts point out that serial killers rarely rely on drowning, and investigations so far show no clear pattern of wounds, locations, or victim profiles.
That doesn’t erase the unease, but it does shift the horror. Instead of a single monster,
Houston may be facing something more ordinary and more devastating: untreated addiction,
mental health crises, poverty, unsafe riverbanks, and people slipping through the cracks until the current carries them where no one can ignore them anymore.
