Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen. Illus by Jonathan Case (Dark Horse, 2011, 240pp.)
In 2001, the nearly twenty-year hunt for the “Green River Killer” ended when a specially appointed task force arrested Gary Leon Ridgway, the man responsible for murdering at least 49 women during the 1980s. He later accepted a plea deal with police in exchange for his cooperation in locating the burial sites of any undiscovered victims. One member of the task force was the author’s own father, Detective Tom Jensen, and it’s really his story that’s the focus of this graphic novel. Reminiscent of From Hell, Alan Moore’s mammoth treatise on the Ripper murders, this is a riveting, intriguing look into the world of the Green River investigation and the effect the decades-long manhunt had on the lives of the task force involved. Recommended for mature readers for content.
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