The River Kept Count: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer
The River Kept Count: the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, and the women Seattle looked past
How does a man murder forty-nine women while detectives question him, search his home, and collect his DNA, and still walk free for nineteen years? Why did a single polygraph test outweigh eyewitnesses, work records, and a wife's chilling warning? And what was really traded away in the deal that spared the deadliest convicted serial killer in American history from execution?
In this episode, we follow the Green River Killer case from the summer of 1982, when five young women were pulled from a quiet…
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