About this title: Ex-Seattle police officer and critically acclaimed bestselling true crime author Ann Rule covers a hometown case: the hunt for the notorious Green River killer. Gary Ridgway killed dozens of young women in the Seattle area in the early eighties, and remained at large for nearly 20 years before DNA evidence definitively identified him and led to his arrest in 2001. Rule's firsthand contact with the police investigators and her careful review of the voluminous police records relating to the case grant vivid detail to both the investigation and the lives of the victims.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 10/2004
ISBN-13:9780743238519ISBN:0743238516
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 448 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Premium Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743460507ISBN:0743460502
Description: Good. The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer. 665 pp. spine creasing, light edge wear; In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has been an intimate part of Ann Rule's life, with some of the corpses found ... read more
Description: Very Good. 0743460502 This OVER SIZED, mass market paperback book is in REAL GOOD SHAPE! ! FIRST EDITION! Full number line is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1! Some creasing of the spine and minor signs of wear from reading--nothing major! SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a book that looks a wrinkle or two away from near new! read more
Description: Very Good. 0743460502 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Star
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743460507ISBN:0743460502
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
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"I've never read Ann Rule before, and I have to say she did a nice job delivering a true crime story. I was expecting something cheesy for some reason. I actually didn't know much about this serial murder case, and it was extremely disturbing- the sheer quantity of women that Gary Ridgeway killed was shocking (at least 48 but probably many more than that). It was particularly insane to me how this person managed to stay "happily" married to his third wife for about 20 years, and she had no idea..."
"Another terribly sad but very comprehensively written book by crime writer Ann Rule on the Green River Killer case that haunted the Pacific Northwest back in the '80s. Rule takes a different take this time, concentrating on the victims and their lives instead of solely on the lives of the police investigators and the murderer, Gary Ridgeway, who began murdering young women in 1981 and was not apprehended, (through DNA evidence) for another 20 years. At the time of the murders, the King County Sheriff's Department in Seattle was accused of not doing enough to catch the murderer because they were (mostly, but not all) in the life of prostitution. I've never really seen any evidence of that, although the police did have a hard time tracking down solid information about many of victims because of the scattered and transient nature of their affiliations and addresses. The "Green River Killer Task Force" was created in the mid-80s and was still around to catch Ridgeway in 2001.
A very sad book about alot of people who were tragically killed by a very broken person."
"The good thing about Ann Rule is that she is interested in the motivations of everyone involved in the case. I was in a rare true crime mood and this was all I had in the house. Not a bad choice, for someone more interested in minds than blood.
At first she catalogues a long parade of teenaged girls who seem to have the instinctual drives of lemmings. I'm the one generalizing here -- she doesn't. While she takes a sympathetic look at each victim, I was wondering how these girls could blithely place themselves in such fatal situations.
Then Rule follows the development of the case, the clues and frustrations. Gradually Gary Ridgway comes to the fore: the raging son with the chameleon skin and the ability to hide in plain sight. Her description seemed to create the Green River Killer right in front of me, even though true knowledge of such a being can, thankfully, never be achieved by a civilized human."
"Gripping from start to finish; well, if you like serial killer books. The truth in near catches and so much more make the reader feel the frustration and the eventual relief when GRK was caught."
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