Green River, Running Red

The Real Story of the Green River Killer—America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

Mass Market Paperback, 661 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2005 by Pocket Star books.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-6050-7
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In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.

In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington’s Green River. Authorities have no idea that this tragic and violent death is only the beginning of a string of murders that will rock and terrify the Seattle area for two decades.

With her signature riveting prose and in-depth research, Ann Rule takes us behind the scenes of the search for the Green River Killer, a terrifying specter who ritualistically killed young women and eluded authorities for years. From seeking the help of incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to Ann Rule’s horrifying realization that the killer she was writing about had attended her book signings, …

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Ann Rule has always had a way of getting into both the criminal subjects' heads as well as those of their victims in every single book of hers I have had the pleasure to read. All the way through this one, she says how it was the hardest one she'd had to write to date...I can see why. Gary Ridgway was a man of unspeakable evil, as well as one of the most depraved human beings I have ever read about, and I've read and watched content about many serial killers. Any killer is dangerous, but some are just more so.

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Subjects

  • True Crime
  • Washington (State)
  • Rapists
  • Infamous Crimes And Criminals
  • Murder
  • True Crime / Espionage
  • Serial murderers
  • Murder - Serial Killers
  • True Crime / General
  • Green River Region (King County)
  • Biography
  • Case studies
  • Serial murders