The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer

In November 2001, after almost two decades of investigation, Gary Leon Ridgway was apprehended as the notorious Green River Killer who was suspected in at least forty-nine homicides. But the most startling aspect of the case would not be how Ridgway was captured, but the identity of the man who helped authorities end his reign of bloodshed: then-death row inmate Ted Bundy, one of the most twisted psychopathic murderers in American history. Speaking to Robert Keppel, the former homicide detective and task force investigator who had helped track him down, along with detective Dave Reichert, who went on to become the King County sheriff who arrested Ridgway, Bundy provided a nightmarishly accurate glimpse into the mind of the Green River Killer, speculating about the killer's compulsions and methods. Bundy's chilling insights led police to understand the killer's motivations and the ways he might be approaching his victims. In 1987, the police first contacted Gary Ridgway, who was a "person of interest" over the next ten years, before being charged in 2001. Now, the author's conversations with Bundy are finally revealed, along with Bundy's startlingly accurate predictions about the Green River Killer.