on the ted bundy case, now a consultant to the green river task force. does this help you find the next one or illustrate why it s so hard to find and stop these people? one of the problems is police departments don t recognize soon enough the serial. we have been guilty for years of not communicating to each other well enough. i think there was an element of people thinking deja vu all over again because within the first week, there were five bodies found in or on the green river in one spot. once the killing started, keppel and others of the green river task force received a strange offer of help, ted bundy, sitting on florida s death row said he could help police find the killer. we wanted to make sure he was never tipped off about the real
it s so hard to find and stop these people? one of the problems is police departments don t recognize enough the serial. and we been guilty for years of not communicating to each other well enough. i think there was an element of people thinking deja vu all over again. because within the first week there were five bodies found in or on the green river. once the killing started, keppel and other members of the green river task force receive a strange offer of help ted bundy, who was sitting on florida s death rosé he could help police find the killer. we wanted to make sure that he was never tipped off about the real reason that we were there to talk to him. the whole idea was to get him talking about green river and what he would say is basically what he was doing as a killer. this is a tape recorded interview between bob keppel and
we now return to chasing the devil. while the green river task force was being cut back, losing manpower and looking at all the wrong people, the man who would, in the end, become the chief suspect continued to solicit prostitutes on the sea-tac strip. a man who would later admit to investigators that he was addicted to prostitutes in the same way that alcohol can be an addiction. it wasn t for sex. i don t think that he enjoyed sex really personally. if he did, he sure didn t show it. rebecca guarde is one of only a couple of prostitutes assaulted by the green river killer who lived to tell about it. he says you want to make $20? the first thing she noticed about the guy in the pickup truck who pulled up to the bus stop where she was standing is he was wearing only gym shorts
them but lost the truck at a light. the boyfriend and marie s father, jose, searched the neighborhood the next day and located the truck in ridgway s driveway. apparently they didn t think about contacting the green river task force. they called local police in the seattle suburb of des moines. jose malvar had to be restrained from going in and looking for marie himself. i wanted to go in because she is my daughter and i love my kids. the officers who looked around ridgway s home found nothing. ridgway told investigators they would never have been quick enough to find malvar at his house. she had already been disposed of by then. i killed her and an hour after i killed her, she was dropped off. even if there was no body, should police have done a more thorough search, would they have turned up clues in his bedroom? ridgway admitted there had been a struggle.
we now return to chasing the devil. while the green river task force was being cut back, losing manpower and looking at all the wrong people, the man who would, in the end, become the chief suspect continued to solicit prostitutes on the sea-tac strip. a man who would later admit to investigators that he was addicted to prostitutes in the same way that alcohol can be an addiction. it wasn t for sex. i don t think that he enjoyed sex really personally. if he did, he sure didn t show it. rebecca guarde is one of only a couple of prostitutes assaulted by the green river killer who lived to tell about it.