Post where Austin bartender claims to have spoken with ‘Rainey Street Killer’ goes viral

A Reddit post in which a bartender purports to have spoken with a man claiming to be Austin’s “Rainey Street Killer” has gone viral on the social media platform. On March 20, Reddit user @whatdid-it made a post in the r/bartenders thread saying a regular patron confessed to being the person behind a recent string of mysterious deaths at Lady Bird Lake. Austin online forums have been abuzz with speculation about a serial killer being active near Rainey Street after four young men’s bodies were pulled from the nearby lake during separate incidents in spring of 2023.