Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...removed, spiritually if not physically, from Mother Nature. They are city dwellers accustomed at cherry-blossom time each year to seeing decorative artificial flowers attached to electric poles -- right next to real trees. Those based in Tokyo, for example, would be hard-pressed to find any sizable patches of green in the neon-drenched, congested concrete megalopolis that sprawls around their tiny studios. All of the featured artists' works, in subject matter as well as execution, not only defy tradition but in some cases tear it to shreds...
...seven frustrating years, law-enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest have combed the region for the mysterious Green River killer, so named because many of his victims were found near the Green River in King County, Wash. Between 1982 and 1984, when the murder spree appears to have ended, the shadowy killer may have snuffed out the lives of 48 women, most of them drifters or prostitutes, who were stabbed or strangled. After committing more than $15 million and as many as 55 officers to one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history, police have finally identified a "viable suspect...
...victims to their deaths with offers of assistance or by intimidating them. A search of Stevens' parents' property produced a police car, 100 police badges, 29 firearms and 26 license plates. This month the police obtained a search warrant in response to a 40-page affidavit prepared by the Green River Task Force, the group of King County officers assigned to the case. Recovered from Stevens' residence and his parents' home in Spokane were 55 boxes and bags of additional evidence, including 1,800 videotapes...
...affidavit sets out Stevens' life as a fugitive in chilling detail. A paper trail of credit-card slips places Stevens in proximity to 17 of the Green River crime scenes. In addition to the 48 Green River murders, the affidavit suggests, Stevens may also be responsible for at least a dozen other killings in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma. Informants alleged that he carried photographs of mutilated women and frequented prostitutes. One source quoted him as saying that he worked with Seattle vice detectives and in the line of duty "often was involved in the torture of prostitutes." Stevens also reportedly...
Stevens promptly issued a statement from jail categorically denying police claims. "I am not the Green River killer. They have made me out to be a very bad person, and I am not," he declared. His lawyer Craig Beles says his client "is a colorful character, but he's no murderer." Students and faculty at Gonzaga, who describe Stevens as quiet and studious, were stunned by the allegations that he may have lived a secret life. Chris Bales, a former Gonzaga law professor who taught Stevens criminal law, characterized him as a "gentle fugitive" who posed no threat to society...