Sheriff Reichert, the first detective assigned to the Green River case, should have hired a professional to write his book for him. Much of the first two-thirds of the book is filled with complaints about newspaper interference, county executives, the FBI, and political machinations, the implication being that the Green River killer would have been caught much sooner if it hadn't been for their interference.

There is a nugget or two, such as the revelation that Gary Ridgway was a suspect as early as 1984. It seems a victim's pimp had seen her get into his truck and he and some of her family members drove around until they found it; amazingly, the police refused to take them seriously. We also get to listen in on an interview between the investigators and Ted Bundy, during which time he suggests the killer may be a necrophiliac.

It's also surprising that Reichert names so many names; he chides family members of the victims, political opponents, and newspaper reporters, and he's shocked when one of the mothers condemns the Task Force during Ridgway's sentencing.

We see Reichert rise in the ranks, so fast he even surprises himself. Eventually the Green River Task force is disbanded, leaving only one detective (not Reichert) on the case. Reichert brags about having Ridgway in his cross hairs for twenty years, but the real hero was science. The Task Force deserves credit for preserving semen taken from some of the bodies but the scientists who discovered DNA were the real heroes.