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Towards the end of 1983, two dozen women were reported missing and 13 bodies were found (The Green River Killer Documentary). Every time someone was driving around near areas of prostitution at night, they were pulled over to be questioned. Every time a woman was alone at night, they were terrified. Everyone was watching everyone in fear that they would be next. Due to lacking the advanced technology that we have today, investigators failed again and again to find the Green River Killer. Ted Bundy, who was a psychology student and another one of America's most notorious serial killers, gave the Green River Killer Task Force a little insight on how the Green River Killer would be doing his work. Bundy said that the killer loves that he has to hunt for his victims. He would spend his free time searching for the perfect and easiest victim. He would comfort them and show them that he could be trusted, then he would attack. He gets off on being able to overpower these women and, due to that, he would more than likely revisit where he dumped them to keep having sex with them (The Green River Killer Documentary). Ted Bundy’s profile of the Green River Killer matched Ridgway precisely, but it was still years before they had the technology to link him to the murders. Until then, Ridgway continued to murder and terrify the state of

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