The complete story of America’s most prolific serial killer, who took the lives of 49 women. To catch him, the investigators turned to the very Ted Bundy.
In the summer of 1982, on the outskirts of Seattle, locals made a terrifying discovery: one after another, three female bodies were pulled from the Green River. Detectives immediately linked the cases, but no one suspected that the hunt for the serial killer would last 20 years, that the number of physical evidence would exceed 10,000, and that the maniac would have time to kill at least 49 women…
• How did Gary Ridgway, a modest worker at an auto plant, turn into a maniac, a rapist, and a necrophile?
• How many times was he targeted by the police, and how did he manage for years to evade justice?
• Why did he kill only prostitutes?
• Why did detectives in his case consult another “famous” maniac—Ted Bundy—and what did he tell them?
The gripping, high-stakes book “The Green River Killer” is the full account of the crimes of America’s most prolific serial killer.
Holly Bean is a crime journalist who, for many years, reported on American crime in local press. To write this book, she studied case materials and consulted well-known criminal psychologists and profilers.