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
the 16-year-old girl, she was looking in your face, it s not the way you want it? no, it isn t. the way she was looking at me and begging for her life, i wanted the back of their head so i couldn t see their face. so ridgway worked on his killing style. he hunted for prostitutes on the strip. most of them were just teenagers. once he got them into his truck, he took them to the woods or his house. on the wall in his bedroom, this mural, a depiction of trees, like the forested dump sites for which his victims were destined. he was divorced from his second wife at this point, and saw his son only on alternate weekends. if the prostitutes were reluctant, he convinced them to get into the bask his canopied pickup. little by little he revealed the
she s a student, you know, nobody would look for her. when chasing the devil returns. proud of you, son. ge! a manufacturer. well that s why i dug this out for you. it s your grandpappy s hammer and he would have wanted you to have it. it meant a lot to him. yes, ge makes powerful machines. but i ll be writing the code that will allow those machines to share information with each other. i ll be changing the way the world works. (interrupting) you can t pick it up, can you? go ahead. he can t lift the hammer. it s okay though! you re going to change the world. chasing the devil
kind of guy. so it s sometimes hard to know when he s having a great moment. tom, you don t seem like the kind of guy that would run around the room slapping high fives, but you had to be tempted. it had been almost 20 years. can you even smile about it? sure. was that a smile? so you re pleased. to say the least? i was elated. the detective decided to play a little guessing game with his old pal, the sheriff. he came into my office and he says sheriff, there s the dna profile on the marcia chapman evidence and here s the dna profile on the opal mills evidence. and then he flips over the last piece of paper and says here s the dna profile on our suspect. and they all matched. and he didn t give me the name right away. so that was it? and, here, by the way? yes. i think we may have just broken the biggest case in u.s. history? right. well, i did jump up out of the
the 16-year-old girl, she was looking in your face, it s not the way you want it? no, it isn t. the way she was looking at me and begging for her life, i wanted the back of their head so i couldn t see their face. so ridgway worked on his killing style. he hunted for prostitutes on the strip. most of them were just teenagers. once he got them into his truck, he took them to the woods or his house. on the wall in his bedroom, this mural, a depiction of trees, like the forested dump sites for which his victims were destined. he was divorced from his second wife at this point, and saw his son only on alternate weekends. if the prostitutes were reluctant, he convinced them to get into the bask his canopied pickup. little by little he revealed the specifics of certain crimes. one especially horrifying murder happened a week or so into his