The Task Force That Couldn't Stop Him: 1982–1987

カートのアイテムが多すぎます

ご購入は五十タイトルがカートに入っている場合のみです。

カートに追加できませんでした。

しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。

ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。

しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。

ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。

しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。

ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました

ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました

The Task Force That Couldn't Stop Him: 1982–1987

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る

By August 1982, King County investigators were recovering bodies faster than they could build cases. What followed was the most ambitious homicide task force in American history — two million dollars committed by 1983, dozens of open files, and a suspect who had already been questioned and cleared. This episode examines the machinery behind the manhunt and the cascading failures that allowed Gary Ridgway to keep killing for two more decades.

At the centre of this episode is a decision that still stings. In April 1983, an eyewitness followed his girlfriend into a truck, lost the vehicle, and led investigators directly to Ridgway's door. Police visited. They questioned him. Nothing happened. Without corroborating physical evidence, the lead dissolved into a case file that was already overflowing.

Then came 1984 and the polygraph. Ridgway submitted. Ridgway passed. In an investigation already stretched beyond its limits — paper files, index cards, no searchable databases — a clean polygraph result was enough to shift the task force's attention elsewhere. Two decades later, sitting in an interview room, Ridgway would confirm he had been lying throughout that test. He had already committed dozens of murders.

This episode also examines why Ridgway's victim selection was not incidental but strategic — young women, many working as prostitutes, many runaways, whose disappearances generated less immediate alarm. That calculation was central to how he evaded detection for as long as he did. And it's the reason an investigation this large became this hard to run.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

まだレビューはありません