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James Jeffrey Paul
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| | Posted on Monday, September 06, 2004 - 5:40 pm: | 
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Have any of you read the excellent book, THE RIVERMAN, by Robert J. Keppel? He helped investigate the Ted Bundy case in Washington and, later on, the Green River case. While on Death Row in Florida, Ted Bundy wrote him and offered to "analyze" the "Riverman," as he (Bundy) called him. Bundy's analysis offered great insights into his own behavior, of course.
A TV adaptation of the book, with Cary Elwes as Bundy, premieres tonight on A&E.
http://www.aetv.com/riverman/
I can't wait to see it! Everyone who has seen it, post your comments on this thread! |
Dan Norder
Inspector
Username: Dannorder
Post Number: 277
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 9:35 am: |
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Oops, what with the delay in the post, I missed this. Sounded interesting though.
Maybe I should pick up the book. The problem with getting into topics like this is I always find more books I want to read, and I've already got a huge stack at home waiting.
Dan Norder, editor, Ripper Notes
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James Jeffrey Paul
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 3:05 pm: |
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It will be re-run many more times on A&E--check their listings--and I have no doubt will soon be available on video and DVD. |
Dee
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 8:13 pm: |
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Do you think that Bundy REALLY offered that many insights? I don't think he did. Because Bundy was Executed in 1989 and it took another decade plus to catch Ridgway. Still, what I saw of the program was interesting.
It is also believed that Bundy had many more victims but skipped over the chance to give the locations of the bodies.
I live in Washington State. And for some reason we just seem to breed serial killers here. Must be the rain.
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Mitch Hannah
Police Constable
Username: Mitch
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 4:04 am: |
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Ridgeway was a suspect BEFORE Bundy ever became involved. In fact detectives from I think it was the Auburn, WA police department visited his home, and I think there was later a search warrant involved. The Riverman does provide an excellent insight into Bundy's thinking, but anything he said about Green River seemed to me to be, at best, disorganized and rambling. Bundy wanted to keep talking obviously. The longer he could talk, the longer he could put off seeing Stark's chair. Marie Malvar's "boy-friend" had last seen her in Ridgeway's truck. Her father found him, and drove him around neighborhood's until he found the truck he had seen, and it was at Ridgeway's residence. The father contacted Auburn police, who then sent the investigators out. As I recall they never entered the residence at that time. It was later that the King County Sheriff's Office executed the warrant. There is an excellent story on Green River at Crime Library on Court TV's website, and Carlton Smith and Thomas Guillen's The Search for The Green River Killer is excellent.
A little more than my two cents worth.
Mitch
"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions, who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest, and, resting, died."
Anonymous c. 1900
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