As the local police searched the area they would unveil the horror of which the locals could not bear, it seemed that the serial killer was not just an ordinary stereotypical serial killer who planned and spread out his victims, rather he was a killing machine more than 50 corpses of young girls were dragged out of the river.
All of his victims were young girls and the killer worked so efficiently that by the time a lot of the bodies had been found it had been months since they were dumped.
The only constant in the Green River Killer's case were his or her victims. They were all young females who were not going to be searched for right away, runaways, prostitutes e.t.c even his method was not routine as some he strangled, some he stabbed.
In May 1983, three women were killed in three days, it sent the county into a panick. But then a few months later, the killings suddenly stopped. The people hoped that just like prior unsolved cases the murderer would vanish and never be heard of again.
Unfortunately in February 1984 the killings started again, the police had spent $15 million already on their manhunt, but still by 1989 the toll had reached 49.
There was only one suspect and this came about through calls made to the show man hunt, the callers claimed that a William Jay Stevens II was the killer. Stevens was a law student but also a convicted thief. The main theory was that the killer disguised himself as a policeman to gain the victims trust, when searching the home of Stevens, they found plenty of police paraphernalia, and receipts indicating he had been in the vicinity of some of the Green River Killers known crimes. However in November 1989 Stevens was officially eliminated as a suspect.
No one could explain why the killings suddenly stopped, the only explanation given was that a short time after similar killings in the San Diego area in California emerged with the same type of victims. Had the Green River Killer grown weary of his nickname, we will never know. The San Diego murders were never solved either.
