

From seeking the help of incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to Ann Rule's horrifying realization that the killer she was writing about had attended her book signings, Green River, Running Red is the suspenseful and unforgettable definitive narrative of the brutal and senseless crimes that haunted the Seattle area for decades (Publishers Weekly). With her signature riveting prose and in-depth research, Ann Rule takes us behind the scenes of the search for the Green River Killer, a terrifying specter who ritualistically killed young women and eluded authorities for years.

Authorities have no idea that this tragic and violent death is only the beginning of a string of murders that will rock and terrify the Seattle area for two decades. In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. A chilling look at the darkest side of human nature, this is the most important and most personal audiobook of Ann Rule's long career.In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and America's best true-crime writer (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America's most prolific and horrifying serial killer. The item Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer, Americas deadliest serial murderer, by Ann Rule represents a specific, individual. It is also the story of his quarryof who these young women were and who they might have become.

Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected.

Still, there was no physical evidence linking any of them to the murders until 2001, when investigators used a new DNA process on a saliva sample they had preserved since 1987, with stunning results. A few men eventually emerged as the prime suspects among an unprecedented forty thousand scrutinized by the Green River Task Force. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies made him far more dangerous than any infamous multiple murderer in the annals of crime. For twenty-one years, the Green River Killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil. In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women.
