{"id":9683,"date":"2025-09-02T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/austins-rainey-street-ripper-nothing-more-than-urban-myth-according-to-texas-state-research-paper\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:11:13","slug":"austins-rainey-street-ripper-nothing-more-than-urban-myth-according-to-texas-state-research-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/austins-rainey-street-ripper-nothing-more-than-urban-myth-according-to-texas-state-research-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s &#8216;Rainey Street Ripper&#8217; nothing more than urban myth, according to Texas State research paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      A new paper by Texas State University\u00a0researchers dismisses the Rainey Street Ripper \u2014 a purported serial killer said to drown victims along downtown Austin&#8217;s lakeshore \u2014 as nothing more than another urban myth. On Tuesday, Texas State&#8217;s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation released a 41-page report that analyzed 189 drownings at Lady Bird Lake between 2004 and 2025. Researchers looked into the deaths after rumors about an Austin serial killer began to circulate online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper by Texas State University\u00a0researchers dismisses the Rainey Street Ripper \u2014 a purported serial killer said to drown victims along downtown Austin&#8217;s lakeshore \u2014 as nothing more than another urban myth. On Tuesday, Texas State&#8217;s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation released a 41-page report that analyzed 189 drownings at Lady Bird Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}