Radel's death spurred Gilbertson to dig deeper into the drownings. He and two graduate students scoured the Internet, newspaper stories and police reports. They found 22 victims who went to college within 50 miles of I-94.
The victims fit a profile: white or Asian men in their early 20s, generally around 5-foot-8 and 165 pounds and athletic, with good grades. No victims were women.
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The police are insisting that these deaths are accidents, including eight deaths in La Crosse alone (population = 51,000).
I think their opinion would be different if these were fit, young women instead. The cops would be all over it. Wisconsin cops returned one of Jeffrey Dahmer's naked, pleading victims to his home - "a lover's quarrel." Which undoubtedly wouldn't have happened if it was a woman. Are we more willing to view women as victims?