satisfaction. i couldn t resist, at least standing in the hallway as he was taken from the regional justice center to the king county jail. gary ridgway was charged in the deaths of four of the green river victims. the three found together on august 15th, opal mills, marcia chapman and cynthia hinds and carol christensen, whose body was discovered the following may. he pled not guilty. matching gary ridgway s dna with the evidence left in the bodies of the murder victims was only the beginning of the next phase of the green river investigation. many questions still needed to be answered. reichert hoped to link him to other victims on the list. i think we re going to find that he s responsible for some other cases after the mid-1980s. i m looking forward this morning to hear more about where you are
parents of players later remarked they had wondered about the smell. five bodies were uncovered in this wooded area south of the airport. by the end of 1984, 2 1/2 years after the killings started, the total stood at 40. the task force was reinstated. but by now, the green river killer was way ahead of them. unlike opal mills, these women had been dead so long that their bodies were decomposed, ravaged by animals and the elements. there was one important exception, on may 8th, 1983, the body of carol ann christensen was found. like the others she had been strangled but unlike theirs, her body was clothed and the scene elaborately staged. over the years we ve seen lots of bizarre crime scenes. we don t understand all the symbolism of some of the things that he did there. christensen had two fish,
himself one small moment of satisfaction. i couldn t resist, at least standing in the hallway as he was taken from the regional justice center to the king county jail. gary ridgway was charged in the deaths of four of the green river victims. the three found together on august 15th, opal mills, marcia chapman and cynthia hinds and carol christensen, whose body was discovered the following may. he pled not guilty. matching gary ridgway s dna with the evidence left in the bodies of the murder victims was only the beginning of the next phase of the green river investigation. many questions still needed to be answered. reichert hoped to link him to other victims on the list. i think we re going to find that he s responsible for some other cases after the mid-1980s. i m looking forward this morning to hear more about where you are and the progress of the investigation. but what if the dna was not enough?
it s something i know he s been waiting to hear for a long time. tom jenson is non an effusive 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 miles. 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 the community grew impatient, fearful and angry. denise griffin knew all three women found at the green river that august 15th. they died in a very brutal fashion. very brutal fashion. opal mills was her best friend. opal was a fighter. the fact that she had a lot of scratches on her knuckles, nails broken which meant to me that she fought. but for her to have fought and lost i think was probably i think that s the thing that scares me the most. bodies kept turning up week after week. the task force was working hard but at the end of three months they came up empty. politicians fretted about all the money being spent with no results. and ordered the sheriff to pull all the cops working the case. all but one. dave reichert did not give up. i became the sole investigator from about end of september to about august of