Green River, Running Red
The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest
Serial Murderer
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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green
River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer From the Publisher:
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 only a mile or so from where she lived and raised her own
daughters. She did not know the killer, but he apparently knew her and attended
many of her book signings. For 22 years, the killer carried out his
self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he
considered evil. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide
their bodies made him far more dangerous than any infamous multiple murderer in
the annals of crime.
A few men -- including a law student, a truck painter, and a taxi driver --
eventually emerged as the prime suspects among an unprecedented forty thousand
scrutinized by the Green River Task Force. Still, there was no physical evidence
linking any of them to the murders until 2001, when investigators used a new DNA
process on a saliva sample they had preserved since 1987, with stunning results.
Ann Rule has followed the case since July 1982, when the first body -- that of
teenager Wendy Lee Coffield -- was found in the Green River, snagged on pilings
under a bridge. Rule has compiled voluminous files, working through an
incredible 95,000 pages of official police records, transcripts, photographs,
and maps, winnowing out the chaff and identifying what is truly important. Over
the years, she gained unparalleled access to all the key players -- from King
County Sheriff Dave Reichert to those close to the killer and his victims.
When finally apprehended and convicted, the killer made a detailed confession --
of his twisted sexual obsessions -- that will shock even the most jaded reader.
Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account
of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected. It is also the
story of his quarry -- of who these young girls were, and who they might have
become. A chilling look at the darkest side of human nature, this is the most
important and most personal book of Ann Rule's long career.
By the end of 2005, Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer, had
published twenty-six New York Times national bestsellers, all of them still in
print She lives near Seattle, Washington.
From The Critics
Publisher's Weekly
Following the winter 2003 sentencing of the Green River serial killer, Gary
Ridgway, perennial true-crime bestseller Rule (Heart
Full of Lies, etc.) has finally completed her long-awaited definitive
narrative of the brutal and senseless crimes that haunted the Seattle area for
decades. Rule once again validates her standing as one of the pre-eminent
chroniclers of modern serial murder, calling upon her experience as a former
police officer and a civilian adviser to the VICAP Task Force to present a
nuanced and easily comprehensible account of the hunt for the man responsible
for at least 48 killings. She succeeds on a number of levels; perhaps her
greatest achievement is bringing Ridgway's victims to life as distinct
individuals, most of whom led lives of quiet desperation that brought them to
prostitution and, eventually, to death at his hands. Rule also captures the
profound sadness pervading this grim chapter in U.S. crime history by humanizing
the grieving relatives, as well as the dedicated investigators who, tragically,
had interviewed Ridgway several times and then moved on to other suspects. Her
eventual realization that the murderer had attended some of her lectures and
book signings will give readers the creeps.. . and should expand Rule's already
large readership." (Oct. 4) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal America's master of true crime on the man who
claimed 48 young victims over two decades. Simultaneous with the Free Press
hardcover.-Ann Kim Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
This long awaited book on the infamous Green River murders is climbing the
bestseller lists faster than any of the 22 earlier books Ann has written. We
hope that you will all find it worth the long wait, even though Ann says it was
a very sad and shocking book for her to write.
ISBN: 0743238516