Green River Killer

He lived an ordinary life on the surface, a quiet man with a steady job, awkward manners, and a presence coworkers found slightly, but beneath it, something dark was growing. Between 1982 and 1984, dozens of young women vanished, their lives ending along the Green River while the killer blended into the community around him. For years he was questioned, watched, and even tested, yet he remained free, passing polygraphs and inserting himself into the investigation. It took nearly two decades and the certainty of DNA to reveal that the monster had been hiding in plain sight all along.

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