NEWS
December 2, 2001 | TOM GORMAN and LYNN MARSHALL, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
They still haven't met face to face, but the parallel worlds of Dave Reichert and Gary Ridgway go back to 1984. Reichert was the first detective assigned to what would become known as the Green River killings: the murders of at least 49 women, mostly prostitutes or runaways, their bodies usually dumped in the river or in the woods. Ridgway was a truck painter living in a Seattle suburb who was an early suspect in the case, though investigators won't say why.