How Was The Green River Killer Able To Elude Police For Over 20 Years ?

Question

Did the anybody care due to the fact that over 44 bodies was found ?

Even though they were prostitutes nobody should be killed in that manner

Answer 1

Generally with Serial Killers they are people that generally blend in well with the rest of the community. If I remember correctly the BTK Strangler was a Boy Scout leader. Would you really suspect one of them of being an person addicted to the joys of killing?

Answer 2

A special task force was assembled of King County detectives to investigate the Green River murders being the largest police task force ever assembled since the Ted Bundy murders less than a decade earlier. Law enforcement enlisted the help of FBI serial killer profiler John Douglas and criminal investigator Bob Keppel, who was known for his unique and successful approach of compiling evidence in the Ted Bundy case eight years earlier.

Because of difficulties in tieing together evidence it wasn't until September 10, 2001, that news from the evidence labs found s***n samples taken from the victims and Ridgway. On November 30, Ridgway was intercepted by investigators on his way home from work and arrested on four counts of aggravated murder.

A typical psychopath, Gary Leon Ridgway forgot his victims, had a "hard time keeping them straight," never learned their names, and wrote them off as vicarious thrills, never personalizing them at all. They were throwaways to Ridgway: disposable women.

I don't believe for a minute that the victims were ever considered "lesser" people simply because of their "profession."

Answer 3

Lack of Tasering?  

More Tasering would have solved that case in less than 6 months.

Answer 4

that is such a shame how close they were so many times and he still got away with it. glad he is gone now. poor woman, the body's they didn't find.