A man who was drugged and plummeted 25ft off a bridge, narrowly missing certain drowning, believes he could have been targeted by the ‘Rainey Street ripper’.
Jeff Jones, 38, was on a bachelor party trip to Austin with a dozen friends from his home in Boston on June 23 last year.
He woke up in hospital more than two weeks later with metal rods holding his back together and doctors found the date-rape drug GHB in his system.
Jones believes he was drugged before the would-be killer pushed him off the bridge over a stream where he was supposed to drown and float away.
‘Whoever they may be just missed the target and I hit the ground, and luckily because of that I didn’t drown,’ he told DailyMail.com.
‘I just got lucky… Not many people can say they potentially survived a serial killer, so that’s a story I can tell, I guess.’
Locals have for years feared a serial killer is on the loose as a dozen bodies were pulled from the Colorado River and Lady Bird Lake near the popular bar district.
Two more were found in the past month, both of which are not yet identified, but like all but one of the others were ruled not suspicious by police.
Police insist there is no killer at large, but rumors of a ‘Rainey Street Ripper‘ have continued to swirl as the bodies pile up.
Jones and his friends began with dinner at the Iron Cactus, and then went to the Rustic Tap and Play – both on West 6th Street.
About 1am he somehow became separated from his group, but he doesn’t remember anything from well before that.
Jones is 6ft 3in and can handle alcohol, and said he wasn’t drinking heavily that night as the trip was a weekend-long affair.
His friends last heard from him about 1.30am, after which he stopped replying to texts and his phone went dead.
An anonymous 911 call was placed about 4am after he was spotted lying motionless at the bottom of the historic West Sixth Street Bridge.
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