One complication: A Tuesday morning meeting with representatives of various law-enforcement agencies to discuss new ways they could all work together to push the investigation forward.

On Monday, September 10, after Jensen finally shared the news of the Green River Killer’s identity with Sheriff Dave Reichert, they resolved to spend the next forty-eight hours quietly assembling a small team of trusted colleagues to prepare for the arrest of Gary Leon Ridgway, a seemingly unremarkable middle-aged painter of commercial vehicles who lived a seemingly unremarkable life with his third wife on the outskirts of Seattle.

He had to sit on the info for a week, as the department’s top man was on vacation. One week earlier, Jensen, the only cop still working the case full time, had finally put a proper name to this monster and determined his whereabouts. For the previous seventeen years, Jensen had played a key role in one of the biggest manhunts ever undertaken in US history: The search for the so-called Green River Killer, responsible for the strangulation murders of at least forty-eight women-some of them just teenagers, all of them prostitutes-during the 1980s. Written by Jensen's own son, acclaimed entertainment writer Jeff Jensen, Green River Killer: A True Detective Story presents the ultimate insider's account of America's most prolific serial killer.On the morning of September 11, 2001, Detective Tom Jensen sat in a conference room in Seattle with a group of FBI agents and fellow police officers trying very hard to protect a very important secret. After twenty years, when the killer was finally captured with the help of DNA technology, Jensen spent 180 days interviewing Gary Leon Ridgway in an effort to learn his most closely held secrets-an epic confrontation with evil that proved as disturbing and surreal as can be imagined. In 1990, with the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women. The story of one of America's most notorious killers is revealed in this true-crime comic unlike any other!

Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen