Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer - Hardcover

FOR TWENTY YEARS HE KILLED AND AVOIDED CAPTURE...
It began with the discovery of three women's bodies found near suburban Seattle's Green River in August, 1982. Soon more corpses and human remains would be found, some as far as Oregon. They were teenage runaways or other women whose anonymous lifestyles had made them easy, vulnerable targets--and they were all the victims of a faceless murderer whose rampage would span two decades and take as many as forty-nine lives. No other serial killer in the nation's history had killed so many people.

BUT ONE COP REFUSED TO QUIT...
For twenty long years, Sheriff David Reichert played a cat and mouse game with the Green River killer who managed to stay one step ahead of Reichert, the local authorities, and even the FBI. But Reichert had no doubt in his mind that he was going to find the Green River killer-- no matter how long it took...

UNTIL JUSTICE WAS SERVED...
That day came in 2001 when DNA evidence linked fifty-two-year-old truck painter Gary Ridgway to three of the murder victims. The long nightmare was finally over for Reichert and the families of the murder victims. With startling insider disclosures and the fascinating forensic details of the relentless manhunt itself--Chasing the Devil exposes the heart of true evil and reveals the dauntless efforts behind one man's quest to chase it...

"Front-and-center account...straightforward...ultimately, the epic turns into a nightmare of gnawing anxiety...as gruesome as guilty pleasures get for rabid crime readers."
--Kirkus Reviews

Dave Reichert was the first detective assigned to the Green River murder cases. He has three children, five grandchildren, and a wife of 34 years, and he still makes his home in the suburbs south of Seattle, not far from the Green River.