On October 13, 1994, Gall said her son left the home he lived in with his wife and child, and boarded an RTA bus to downtown Dayton. The driver of that bus told Dayton police back in 1994 that Phil Gall walked toward the Asylum, a club along Patterson Road that is no longer in business. Phil Gall hasn’t been seen since.
“To this day we don’t know what happened to Phil,” said David Williams, a retired Dayton police lieutenant. “His body is still missing.”
News of a national investigation into the deaths of at least 40 young men, including some from here in Ohio, has those who want to see Phil’s case solved paying close attention.
A group of retired New York City police detectives alleges that a gang of serial killers, who they’ve dubbed the “Smiley Face Gang” because of the markings they leave at the crime scenes, has targeted young, mostly white men in at least ten states.
There’s no indication that Phil’s disappearance has anything to do with this alleged gang, but his family and investigators don’t want to leave any stone unturned. Williams, who worked Phil’s disappearance when he was active with the Dayton police department, hopes to have the detectives who are following the alleged “Smiley Face” murders take a look at Phil’s case.
“As best we can tell, Phil happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Williams said.
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