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The Global Chronicle

“Vile”: Ken Waks controversy explained as TikTok crime sleuth comes under fire for serial killer claim

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Olivia Bennett

Updated on January 19, 2026

TikToker Ken Waks has gone under the virtual entertainment radar after he professed to have broken a supposed sequential killing case in Austin, Texas. In his recordings, he guaranteed that the nine bodies being pulled out of Woman Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, were crafted by a chronic executioner free in the city.

Ken Waks effectively started discussing the case on April 4, 2023, when he initially sewed his video with another Austin-based maker, Nick Casablancas’ video. In his video, Nick said that various bodies were being found in Woman Bird Lake. Waks guaranteed that this was a “public issue” as bodies are dubiously being tracked down in different urban communities too, similar to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis.

Ken Waks likewise talked about working secretly with Kevin Gannon, a resigned cop who has committed long stretches of his administration to examining comparable cases. In any case, netizens started getting dubious when Waks discussed his application in one of the recordings. They said that he was doing this fair to get more deals for his application.

Ken has been getting huge reaction for his recordings and cases, particularly after specialists eliminated any confusion. They said that they found no indications of unfairness in the instances of the bodies tracked down in the lake. One web-based entertainment client likewise referred to him as “contemptible” and said:

As Ken Waks kept on making an ever increasing number of recordings about the supposed secret, he turned into an objective of netizens’ rage. They pummeled him for the cases he was making via online entertainment. The TikToker, who lives in Chicago, has more than 1,000,000 fans via virtual entertainment. Be that as it may, netizens don’t appear to interface well to the story being introduced by Waks.

🚨TIKTOKER Ken Waks LIES about serial killer to promote an app CAUSING A FURIOUS BACKLASH!!!

— Abanico de CPher (@SinAtacarse) May 2, 2023


Netizens have likewise been getting down on his unusual cases, where he expressed that private examiners have approached his entryway requesting that he be a piece of the case. He even asserted that he will help the confidential examiners “break the case” by assisting them with “tech stuff” like guide building, information assortment, and so forth.

Police and specialists have emphasized that none of the nine bodies pulled out of the lake had any dubious marks on connections to injustice.

In the mean time, Ken is continually posting new recordings prompting his watchers not to take complementary lifts and to be careful, as a “chronic executioner is unhindered.”