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Sheriff David Reichert details his personal, thirty‑year commitment to capturing one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Beginning as the first detective on the 1982 Green River case, he pursued the trail of 49 murders along the river outside Seattle, meeting survivors and families, confronting the killer’s taunts, and protecting his own life and that of his family. After 11 years of investigation and advances in forensic science, Reichert’s persistence culminated in the arrest of Gary Ridgway, the truck painter who finally faced justice for the victims’ descendants.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: David Reichert
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