In 1982, the corpses of several young women were found in the Green River which runs through Kent, Washington about 15 miles south of Seattle. The five corpses found in the river was just the beginning of a murder spree that would take the lives of at least 49 young women. The hunt for the killer would take over 20 years to solve.
Ann Rule is a former Seattle police officer and has written a number of true crime bestsellers. Ms. Rule originally became famous for her book about serial killer Ted Bundy: "The Stranger Beside Me."
Like Ted Bundy, The Green River Killer turned out to be another psychopath native to the Puget Sound region.Gary Ridgeway was so ordinary that no one imagined that he could be one of the worst serial killers in U.S. history.
Ann Rule dedicates her book to the victims and she writes of their lives. Several of the young victims were only teenagers and a few were never identified. All of their photos or depictions of what the un-identified may have looked like are in the book.
The faces of some of the victims are hopeful. Others are resigned to a life of pain and misery. It's too bad that there wasn't some help for them before they encountered a monster.
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