How Ted Bundy Helped Catch the Green River Killer

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this article:

Ted Bundy, while on Florida’s death row in the early 1980s, offered to help authorities profile the Green River Killer, later identified as Gary Ridgway.

Dave Reichert, the lead investigator, flew to Florida to interview Bundy, who provided insights into the mindset of a serial killer.

Bundy and Ridgway shared many similarities, including both men growing up in Washington.

In 1982, a series of mysterious murders began plaguing Washington state’s King County. As more young women disappeared, only for their remains to turn up along the Green River, investigators raced to catch the cold-blooded menace responsible.

But with no obvious leads, they turned to an unlikely source for help: Ted Bundy , the prolific serial kill