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The Task Force That Couldn't Stop Him: 1982–1987
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In 1982, King County built the largest murder investigation in U.S. history to catch a killer they had already interviewed and let walk. This is the story of the task force that managed forty-nine murders — and the polygraph that kept Gary Ridgway free.
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By the summer of nineteen eighty-two, investigators in King County, Washington were recovering bodies faster than they could build cases. The killer had no known face, no known address, and no apparent reason to stop.
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