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Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen5/28/2023 On Monday, September 10, after Jensen finally shared the news of the Green River Killer’s identity with Sheriff Dave Reichert, they resolved to spend the next forty-eight hours quietly assembling a small team of trusted colleagues to prepare for the arrest of Gary Leon Ridgway, a seemingly unremarkable middle-aged painter of commercial vehicles who lived a seemingly unremarkable life with his third wife on the outskirts of Seattle. He had to sit on the info for a week, as the department’s top man was on vacation. One week earlier, Jensen, the only cop still working the case full time, had finally put a proper name to this monster and determined his whereabouts. For the previous seventeen years, Jensen had played a key role in one of the biggest manhunts ever undertaken in US history: The search for the so-called Green River Killer, responsible for the strangulation murders of at least forty-eight women-some of them just teenagers, all of them prostitutes-during the 1980s. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Detective Tom Jensen sat in a conference room in Seattle with a group of FBI agents and fellow police officers trying very hard to protect a very important secret.
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