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Article: San Diego Task Force Joins Search for Seattle-Area Serial Killer
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 20, 1988
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Perhaps because they were so often ignored in life, it took a
long time to notice the odd similarity of their deaths.
The remains of young women from Seattle's red light districts
began to turn up in rural fields and woods near Washington state
thoroughfares in 1982. The first five discovered had been strangled.
The next 35 bodies, including four found in Oregon, were usually too
decomposed to determine the exact cause of death.
By the time local authorities realized the breadth of the
tragedy-perhaps the largest serial killing episode in U.S.
history-and established a task force to deal with it, the murders had
stopped.
But the Green River Task Force, named for the area where the
first ...