I don't normally watch these types of documentaries but growing up in Oregon-Washington state in the 70s and 80s I remember this guy's story well. So I was curious and started watching, I never realized they had him investigated multiple times by the police/task force!

One time the cop showed up at his house because the Victim's family found the truck they last saw her get into parked in this guy's drive way. Investigating cop knew the killer from high school and never looked in the house. The girl was tied to the guys bed!!!

The second time the girl got away from the killer and later ID'd him and they polygraphed him and he passed?!? The police then interviewed his coworkers and they said no way. Nothing further was done.

This guy just passed through the law like nothing on several occasions. Killing scores of women in between. I never knew that side of the story. This was one sick individual. But the police seem to have failed the public.

His first wife left him while he was in the navy overseas and moved in with 2 guys and she became a prostitute. He had a lot of interaction with prostitution it seems. His Dad hated prostitutes, his mom was domineering and mean to him, his 1st wife left him to fk 2 guys and more. He got VD overseas from a prostitute. His interactions with women seems pretty odd. His 2nd wife said he wanted sex 6-7 times a day and in the woods? She said he would take her out in the woods and tie her up and have sex. Ya that's normal lady. No signs there the guy was nuts.

He had sex with the dead bodies days after killing them? This isn't a man that needs to take up tax dollars in jail. Take him out in the pacific with a concrete block tied to him and say swim.

He was interrogated like 10 times by the police and nothing! He was caught by an under cover prostitute cop and let go. He was found at the scene of 3 dead bodies in his truck late at night. Let go. His 2nd wife says he would be out all night and she didn't know where. but noticed he always brought a large roll of plastic with him. Hmmm.

I know hind sight and all, but damn Seattle cops were incompetent.

The truth of the matter is that he was killing hookers for the most part and not college girls (like Bundy). He preyed on the dregs of society. Law enforcement (as I know you know) is often political juggling of priorities. I remember it all quite clear even though I was a kid. It wasn't like Son of Sam or Bundy or the Unibomber. Seattlites were not living in fear of this because of his MO. I have no idea how much resources SPD, King County, or the FBI actually put on this in the early 80's but my guess is it wasn't too much relative to horror he was inflicting.

Seattle was pretty trashy in the 70's and 80's until the tech boom moved north and by the late 80's that city was going high profile with Microsoft and the like. It's probably hard for people not from there to grasp, but Seattle, for all it's natural beauty, was a very "industrial/blue collar" area until big tech showed up, regardless of Boeing. Lots of rough and tumble workers, lots of hookers, lots of booze and drugs. Disappearing prostitutes just wasn't really moving the needle.

An aside, and purely from an entertainment board perspective, I hope the next season of Mind Hunters dives in to this.

So.....OP just gonna tell us about this great documentary but not give us the name of it or where it can be watched? Great thread.