Front-and-center account by the first detective assigned to
Washington State's notorious serial murders, who later became King
County sheriff and arrested the now-convicted killer. The most
engaging feature of Reichert's mainly straightforward though
sometimes awkwardly embellished narrative is that he lets his
interior monologues bubble up; he needs you to know he's a
straight-up guy who hopes, for instance, killers are headed for
hell and who never once believed that prostitution was a victimless
crime. He chronicles friction with associates, frustration with the
system and his superiors, and petty jealousies that spilled over
with the involvement of a big-time FBI "profiler," which was not
even a recognized specialty when the first victims were discovered
in 1982. (Robert Keppel weighed in with his own Green River book,
The Riverman, in 1995.) With professional pride not quite
suppressed by the modesty he knows he should project, Reichert
writes at one point, "You would be surprised how many cases are
cracked when we simply pick up the most likely suspect and take him
in for a conversation . . . you say things like 'I can understand
if things just got out of hand . . . just tell us what happened.'
Eventually, one of these questions is like a pinprick on a
balloon." It wasn't quite that way, of course, with Gary Ridgway,
who finally confessed in 2001 to the murders of 48 women, almost
all prostitutes, and who remains the prime suspect in perhaps
dozens more cases as bodies still turn up. Reichert unflinchingly
depicts the endless hours of interviews with pimps, whores, johns,
and the taxi drivers often sought as objective chroniclers of
doings on the street. Likewise, as Ridgway's grotesque compulsions
play out, there seems no way to dance around necrophilia with
euphemism. Ultimately, the epic hunt turns into a nightmare of
gnawing anxiety relieved by the stupefying banality of yet another
corpse. As gruesome as guilty pleasures get for rabid crime
readers. (Kirkus Reviews)
The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for
America's most heinous serial killer. For eight years, Sheriff
David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River
Killer--the most notorious serial killer in American history. He
was the first detective on the case in 1982 and doggedly pursued it
as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous
unsolved case in the nation. Frantically following all leads, even
as more bodies surfaced near the river outside Seattle, Sheriff
Reichert befriended the victims families, publicly challenged the
killer, and risked his own safety--and the endurance and love of
his family--before he found his madman. But Reicherts hunt didnt
end when he finally cornered a truck painter named Gary Ridgway. It
would be yet another 11 haunting years before forensic science
could prove Ridgways guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. CHASING THE
DEVIL is the gripping firsthand account of Reicherts relentless
pursuit--a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling
revelations. Told in vivid detail by the man who knows the whole
story--the man who has stared into the eyes of absolute evil--this
is a page-turning real-life suspense story of unparalleled heroism.
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