Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, True Crime, murder, serial killers
ISBN: 9780743460507
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2004-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

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FRANK ADAMSON, the reader of poetry, knew T. S. Eliot's work well, and he realized that April 1984 was, indeed, "the cruelest month," at least in terms of the number of women's bodies that were being discovered.

Barbara Kubik-Patten, who truly felt that she was getting messages from the dead girls telling her where fellow victims could be found, sensed that Mary Bridget, Kimi-Kai, Opal, and a blond girl she couldn't identify were talking to her, and she was extremely frustrated that the task force detectives wouldn't pay attention to her. The only investigator who had the patience to listen to her was Jim Doyon, whom Frank Adamson termed "a sweet guy."

On April 15, 1984, Kubik-Patten tracked me down where I was having Sunday dinner at a friend's house. I'd left the phone number on my answering machine in case my kids needed me. Like most of the task force detectives, I was growing weary of her insistence that she had psychic visions but that nobody would listen to her.

Impatient that she had interrupted my rare dinner out, I finally said, "You know, Barbara, your visions are too vague. I think you're going to have to actually find a body yourself in order to convince them. Most detectives aren't that impressed with psychics."

I knew that she had been showing up at body sites and getting in the way of the investigative teams that were trying to gather evidence while they staved off the press and curious bystanders. On one occasion, Kubik-Patten and a woman friend had bulldozed their way into the woods near a body site search. They found the remains of an animal, which they believed was human, and poked at it.

Unfortunately, they aroused a nest of yellow jackets. Her friend, who was allergic to bees, was stung and they had to flee in disarray.

The Wednesday after Kubik-Patten called me, a shovel operator on a crew of loggers found human bones in a deep woods owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company. They were scattered in a fifty-square-foot area off the north end of Highway 18, near North Bend, and in an area where two victims had been located two months earlier.

Dental records and the discovery of a mandible (lower jaw) brought quick identification. The bones were those of Amina Agisheff, thirty-seven, who had been waiting for a bus in downtown Seattle and was the first woman on the missing list. It was a surprising answer to the many questions about her disappearance. She had been the devoted mother of three children, someone never involved in prostitution.

Even though Amina's remains were found close to earlier skeletons, her relatives could not believe that she fit the Green River victim profile, and neither did the detectives. She was too old, for one thing, and she had never been anything but a loving and responsible mother to her children. Her ethnic background was Russian, and she was part of an extended family who were always in touch with one another.

Born in New York,

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