The Search for the Green River Killer by Tomas Guillen

Author:Tomas Guillen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504046398
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

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AMINA

April 1984/May 1984

The following day, April 23, the medical examiner’s office identified the remains the police had been working on when they were interrupted by Barbara. The skeleton found by the Weyerhaeuser worker was that of Amina Agisheff.

The identity was a shock to Adamson. Agisheff had been on the Seattle Police Department’s missing list since July 7, 1982. The county police had originally declined to list her as a possible Green River victim. And why not? She was thirty-six years old, and the mother of two children. She had no record of prostitution, not even any hints of it.

And yet, here was her skeleton, found altogether too close to three other remains. It seemed inescapable to Adamson that Amina Agisheff’s killer was the same person who had killed the other three. The cluster theory seemed to be in working order.

But Agisheff? There was no way the woman fit the profile of the other victims. Older, for one thing. Had a stable relationship with a man. Had two children. Was close to her own parents. Had no connection to The Strip. Worked as a waitress in downtown Seattle. Was the discovery of her body in the midst of this cluster simply a coincidence? Or was it somehow a significant break?

A look at Agisheff’s missing persons file showed that she had gotten off work on the evening of July 7, 1982, and had dropped in to visit her mother, who lived in an apartment near First Avenue and Virginia Street on the edge of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Public Market. After drinking two beers with her mother, Amina had left about 11:30 P.M. to walk to a bus stop at First Avenue and Pike Street, two blocks away. First and Pike was the crossroads of the Seattle tenderloin and a frequent soliciting location for prostitutes working inside the city limits.

What had happened? Had the killer kidnapped Amina? Or had Amina known the killer? Had someone Amina knew personally picked her up near First and Pike, perhaps offered her a ride home? Was that person the same man who had later killed all the others after picking them up at random? An intensive background investigation of Amina’s life had to be undertaken as a top priority.

One obvious possibility was that the killer they were seeking had been a customer at the restaurant where Amina had worked, and that Amina had made his acquaintance there. The date of her disappearance—if the Green River killer had gotten Amina, she would have been the first victim, even before Coffield—added weight to this idea. Sometimes a serial murderer’s first victim was someone known casually to the killer.

But if the killer had gotten Amina, why had he put her body in the woods, and not in the river as he had with the other early victims? The dates of disappearance showed that Amina’s disappearance was followed by Wendy Coffield, who was in the river; then Gisele Lovvorn, back on dry land south of the airport; then Dub Bonner, Marcia Chapman, Cynthia Hinds, and Opal Mills, all in or near the river.

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