Last year, Jeff Jones took a plane to Austin for what he thought would be an extravagant bachelor party.
Before heading to pubs on the notoriously boisterous West 6th Street, the Boston native had dinner with his companions.
The 38-year-old inexplicably lost contact with his pals at one in the morning.
He didn’t remember anything until he woke up in the hospital two weeks later, with metal rods supporting his back.
Doctors informed him that he had been discovered in water after falling 25 feet from a bridge, and they discovered the date-rape drug Rohypnol in his system.
Many feared that a potential serial killer was prowling the streets of the Texas metropolis, and a scared Jones believed he had been drugged and pushed by him.
Despite police’s insistence that there isn’t a mass murderer on the loose, the rumours have persisted due to disturbing findings in a river that passes through the heart of Austin.
On Wednesday, it was disclosed that over three dozen bodies had been recovered from Lady Bird Lake in the previous three years.