A bit slow...Subjective...And Fascinating

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	• Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer - America's Deadliest Serial Murderer Ann Rule Thorndike Press, 2005 - 888 pages average customer review:based on 106 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A bit slow...Subjective...And Fascinating

I decided to read this book after seeing the TV movie based on Ann Rule's book. However, I believe another book written in the late 80s/early 90s, The Search For the Green River Killer, was better.

Rule's book goes a bit overboard in giving backgrounds to the many women who disappeared. After reading 40+ mini bio's on each of the girls, the book starts to become a bit boring. However, she does give the reader enough information to know that these girls were real people and that they all had mothers, boyfriends, and family. However, these bios continue for at least 250 pages (paperback). Once the bios are finished, the book begins to take off.

One irritating factor is how Rule stops the flow of narration to interject comments about herself, or what she was doing during the course of the killings, or how she passed on certain information to the police, blah blah blah. I believe one should write objectively about the subject without personal interjection.

Another facet of the book I found unusual was how the book skipped from circa 1988/89 to 2001. Rule gives basically no information as to what was happening on the case during the 90s. She starts section III with 2001 and the capture of Ridgway. Well...what happened during the 90s? How did the police slowly hone in on Ridgway?

The last section of the book starts with "We've caught the GRK" and then goes into his capture, his trial and so on.

I've read other Ann Rule books. I know she writes well but this book was a bit self-serving.

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What a great book! Couldn't put it down! Ann Rule is one of the best authors in this genre. I felt like I was in the case myself

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Life On the Streets

It took Ms Rule over 20 yrs to write this book , and as you will tell it is very well written . It tells us the story of the 49 victims and a little of what their life was like as most of them lived on the streets .
The Green River Killer (GRK) didn't have a preference , He didn't care about the age or race of the girls , He just patroled the strip for his victims . SOme of them being easy targets as they were prositutes and others that weren't . This book shows us how anyone can fall victim to this type of crime when there is a serial killer loose .

You never know your neighbor or friend as Ms Rule says in here as she worked along side of Ted Bundy prior to his killing spree .

Was the GRK ever caught and what happened , you have to read the book to find out .

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Ann Rule's Finest Work-Ever!

I have read quite a few true crime books by Mrs. Ann Rule,such titles as "The Lust Killer"-The story of Jerome Brudos, "The Stranger Beside Me"-The Ted Bundy Murders,"The I-5 Freeway Killer"-The story of serial murderer and rapist,Randy Woodfield and "Small Sacrifices"-The story of Diane Downs. "Small Sacrifices was a particularily emotional and very heartwrenching true story of a young mother of three who shot her three small children, one died and the other two have permanent physical and emotional damages, because her lover did not want to be a "daddy", Now ,Rule's latest book to date "Green River,Running Red" in my own opinion is the most accurate, horrific,shocking and most of all, very emotional. Rule brings back life to the dead young women and gives them dignity that very few people of Seattle, except for their grieving families and even the poor women themselves, felt they did not deserve to be treated with respect and dignity simply because they were trapped in a hellish life of prostitution. Ann Rule's book literally sucked me into the story. I felt I was right there in the middle of it all. I felt I had known the victims myself because Rule gives such a clear, comphrensive account of their short lives that were over before they really even begun. I give this book 5 stars because of the accuracy,the story of how The Green River Task Force worked endlessly for over twenty years,the easy to understand literature and most of all ,the compelling emotional truth of the Green River cases and the victims and their families. A must read for all Ann Rule fans!

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