Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the Green River killings seem to have ended, police are unsure whether the murderer is dead, has moved elsewhere or is just lying low. Indeed, despite the use of the most modern techniques, thwarted investigators know very little about this killer except that his primary targets are young prostitutes and that his lethal attacks may involve a repertory of strangulation, bludgeoning and sexual assault...
...hunt for the Green River Killer has pulled together police resources from throughout the Seattle area, but to little avail. A task force that currently includes 19 detectives, two FBI agents and a computer expert has already spent some $10 million and investigated 1,300 suspects. Yet an additional 6,000 names await full checking, a process that can take anywhere from an hour to six months...
...hasn't. After more than three unsuccessful years of searching for the killer, morale on the Green River task force has occasionally withered. The force has shrunk from 55 staffers last fall, its highest number, to the current complement, as personnel have been redeployed to join the fight against Seattle's growing drug problems...
...still at large. "People hear the word prostitute and don't perceive it as their problem," says Task Force Detective David Walker. Pierce Brooks, an investigative consultant who worked on the California Onion Field killing of the 1960s and the Atlanta child murders of 1979 to 1981, believes the Green River slayer's name is already in the task force's files. Says Brooks: "The only way you're going to dig the name out is to hang on and keep going...
...another prospect concerns investigators: that the Green River Killer may emerge from his hibernation and provide fresh clues in the form of fresh victims...