Reader's Digest Timeless Favorites by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trusted Media Brands
Published: 2022-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

Sadly, many of them were not, and the toll continued to rise. I never felt “hinky”—a cops’ term for intuition that something is wrong—about Ted Bundy, but given my proximity to the Green River Killer’s stalking ground, I developed a feeling early on that I had probably seen him. I came to believe that at some point I had stood behind him in a supermarket, or sat next to him at a restaurant.

In the first three years of the probe, I fielded several calls a day from people convinced they knew his identity. Most were from women turning in their ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends, and many of them were chillingly convincing. Rumor had it that the killer was a cop, and I was tipped to the names of many detectives I knew, which gave me pause.

My daughter Leslie Rule also is a writer, and we often hold book-signing events together. On several occasions she mentioned a man she spotted at our signings. “He never buys a book, Mom,” she said. “He just leans against the wall and stares at you.”

In 1987, a woman who sold her house to a divorced man in his late 30s called me. The man, who remained a neighbor, had later asked this woman for help removing a bedroom carpet, ruined with spilled “red paint.” He matched the composite drawings resulting from Green River witnesses’ observations. She and her friend suspected that he might be the killer. I met with them and agreed their suspicions were important enough for me to take them to the task force. Before I did, I drove by his house—which was less than two miles from my own. It was an ordinary little house, two blocks off the Pacific Highway.

I had no idea, of course, that the Green River Task Force was already looking closely at him. But when a search warrant was executed on his property and a meticulous combing of the house netted no physical evidence linking him to the victims, they couldn’t proceed.

Carol Estes (with surviving daughter Virginia Graham) holds a portrait of her daughter Debra, one of at least 48 victims of killer Gary Ridgway (opposite).

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