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- The others are 'The Riverman' (2004), 'Green River Killer' (2005) and 'The Capture of the Green River Killer' (2008).
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Miniseries. 2008 • 2 Episodes. Season 1 of The Capture of the Green River Killer premiered on March 30, 2008. Finale - Part 2. (1x2, March 31, 2008) Season Finale. View All Seasons.
The Capture of the Green River Killer. The miniseries was named one of the top 10 television productions of 2008 by Variety and was twice nominated for a 2008 Gemini Award for best direction and for best costuming. Lifetime's premiere of The Capture of the Green River Killer delivered two million viewers, making it 10-year-old Lifetime Movie ...
- July 15, 1982: The Body of Ridgway’s First Victim Is Discovered
- August 16, 1982: A Police Task Force Is Set Up
- April 30, 1983: Ridgway First Becomes A Suspect
- May 1984: Ridgway Passes A Polygraph Test
- The Police Talk with Ted Bundy
- Ridgway Provides A DNA Sample That Would Eventually Be His Downfall
- March 2001: DNA Testing Expands and Connects Ridgway to Three Murders
- November 30, 2001: Police Announce The Arrest of The Green River Killer
- November 5, 2003: Ridgway Pleads Guilty
- December 18, 2003: Ridgway Is Sentenced
In July 1982, children found the strangled body of Wendy Caulfield, 16, floating in Seattle’s Green River. Over the following weeks, four more bodies were discovered in or along its banks—all women, all strangled. On August 15, three more bodieswere found, and detective David Reichert was one of the first authorities to arrive at the scene. Marci C...
After the King County Sheriff’s Office set up the Green River Task Force to investigate the killings, the body count rose, as more victims were discovered along the river and in the area around the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Over the next two years, the Green River Killer sexually assaulted and murdered more than 40 other women. “Every t...
In the spring of 1983, prostitute Marie Malvar, 18, was last seen by her boyfriend getting into a paint-patched pickup with a dark-haired man about 30 to 40 years old. Four days later, police questioned Ridgwayat his home about his knowledge of Malvar, whom he denied knowing. In November, police once again spoke with Ridgway about the murders, but ...
Already a person of interest due to his known association with area prostitutes, Ridgway contacted police with the supposed intention of assistance. He then passed a polygraph test, in which he denied killing any women.
With few reliable leads in the Green River Killer case, authorities were desperate for any information to further the investigation. Having read about the ongoing case in the press, convicted serial killer Ted Bundywrote to Reichert offering his help in the case. Reichert flew to Florida where Bundy was being held on death row. During discussions, ...
Because Ridgway was the last person allegedly seen with two of the victims, police eventually searched his home and vehicles in 1987 in connection with the murders. It was at that time Ridgway finally provided police with a saliva samplethat later tied him to the crimes. But due to insufficient DNA testing at the time, Ridgway remained a free man f...
With new techniques in forensic testing at their disposal, investigators re-examined evidence from across the years the killer had been active. “It was a last-ditch effort,” Beverly Himick, a Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory forensic scientist, told The New York Times. “We didn’t have a lot to work with, but we went through a lot of evidenc...
Nearly two decades after the first murder, King County Sheriff Reichert announced that Ridgway, then 52, was arrested in connection with four of the Green River Killer’s early victims: Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. Christensen’s body had been recovered in 1983.
In a plea bargain that spared him the death penalty in return for his confession and information regarding the details of the murders and locations of the bodies, Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first-degree murder. “I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight,” Ridgway said in a statement, admitting he...
For his crimes, a King County Superior Court Judge sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences, to be served consecutively, with no possibility of parole.
This film is not like most serial killer stories, in that it examines the lives of the young girls, tragic victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, born into the wrong social class with little choices Amy Davidson as victim Helen "Hel" Remus is particularly tragic and notable; a discarded child really, her mother Opal (Sharon Lawrence) is an impoverished waitress living in a trailer park ...
Apr 22, 2011 · The Green River Killer was responsible for the deaths and disappearance of dozens of young girls during the 1980s. This two part miniseries, originally airing on the Lifetime network, chronicles the two decade long investigation made by Sheriff David Reichart. Spread out over two episodes.
- William O'donnell
Mar 30, 2008 · March 30, 2008. In 1983, the Kings County Sheriff's department, in the area around Seattle, realize they have a serial killer in the community. Det. Dave Reichert is put in charge of the case but the killer, who has been dumping bodies in the Green River area, proves to be elusive. Reichert has the FBI develop a profile of the killer but the ...
Synopsis. A pair of girls seeking adventure beyond the their Western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. Based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer".
- 180 min
