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Nowhere on the album is this more apparent than on the track “Ringway to Seatac,” where a guitar intro reaches back for the lo-fi grindy sound of the pre-Albini Wedding Present albums of the ’80s. Like the songs of that era, Gedge’s voice doesn’t dominate, and is sometimes barely intelligible underneath the crunching guitars. It’s a vintage Wedding Present move, and this song, with lyrics emerging about “being five hundred miles away?...
...women, and was in the habit of parking in the lot at Larry's Market on 144th Street or the 7-Eleven at 142nd Street, where he could scan the street. Leading off the strip was a network of small streets. Many of its houses had been abandoned when SeaTac Airport expanded its flight path directly overhead, and this is where the girls liked to turn their tricks. The passing planes muffled any sounds, and the streets were mostly deserted. The few residents who had not moved out complained about the prostitutes and their clients parking curbside at night...
...three boys in a 600-sq.-ft. house off the Pacific Highway near what would become the strip. The boys slept in bunk beds in the same room and spent much of the time outdoors. "We literally crawled on our hands and knees over the area around SeaTac where this [series of killings] was supposed to have happened," says Greg Ridgway, 54, who works for a computer company...
Back in Seattle, the investigation was getting bogged down by the sheer number of bodies. Corpses were being found in a wide arc around SeaTac Airport by kids on bikes, a man walking his dog, mushroom collectors, soldiers on exercises. "Every time you found a body it was like being hit on the head with a baseball bat," says Reichert. Often when the cops went to examine a body in the woods, they would come across the remains of several others nearby...
SoNo: South Norwalk in Connecticut WeHo: West Hollywood SoBe: South Beach in Miami SoBro: South Bronx in New York City SeaTac: Area around Seattle and Tacoma LoDo: Lower Downtown in Denver SoMa: South of Market Street in San Francisco NeChe: Northeast Chelsea in New York City SoDo: South of Downtown in Seattle SoNa: South of Narodni Street in Prague