Summary of Ann Rule's Green River, Running Red

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#1 The Pac HiWay was a highway that connected Seattle to Tacoma, and it has changed constantly over the years. It began as Highway 99, and then it was Old 99 when the I-5 Freeway opened. Some spots are called Pacific Highway South, except where it passes the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where it has become International Parkway.

#2 The strip became a local roadway, full of businesses that catered to those who flew in or lived and worked nearby. The Little Church by the Side of the Road was still there, and so was The Pancake Chef and the Lewis and Clark Theater.

#3 On August 12, 1982, another woman’s body was found in the Green River, south of Seattle. It was difficult to determine where she had gone into the river, but her corpse had been trapped in a net of tree branches and logs.

#4 The woman in the river was identified as Debra Bonner, a prostitute who had recently made a precarious living on Pacific Highway South. She had been arrested twice for offering sex for money. She had told her friends that she was freelancing, working the circuit from Portland to Tacoma to Seattle to Yakima and Spokane.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822524699

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Pac HiWay was a highway that connected Seattle to Tacoma, and it has changed constantly over the years. It began as Highway 99, and then it was Old 99 when the I-5 Freeway opened. Some spots are called Pacific Highway South, except where it passes the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where it has become International Parkway.

#2

The strip became a local roadway, full of businesses that catered to those who flew in or lived and worked nearby. The Little Church by the Side of the Road was still there, and so was The Pancake Chef and the Lewis and Clark Theater.

#3

On August 12, 1982, another woman’s body was found in the Green River, south of Seattle. It was difficult to determine where she had gone into the river, but her corpse had been trapped in a net of tree branches and logs.

#4

The woman in the river was identified as Debra Bonner, a prostitute who had recently made a precarious living on Pacific Highway South. She had been arrested twice for offering sex for money. She had told her friends that she was freelancing, working the circuit from Portland to Tacoma to Seattle to Yakima and Spokane.

#5

The investigators spoke to people working in the areas where Wendy and Debra had spent their days and nights, and they found a pattern. Three days later, there was no question that a bleak pattern was emerging.

#6

The treasure hunter, Dave Reichert, was paddling frantically to the bank. He had signalized passersby to call the King County Sheriff’s Office. The officer responding, Dick Kraske, thought the murders would be the worst he’d see in his career.

#7

The bodies of Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Marcia Fayette Chapman were recovered from the Green River. They were all African American, and it was through their fingerprints that they were identified.

#8

The last two victims were identified. One of them fit the profiles of Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Marcia Chapman. Cynthia Hinds was only 17, a vibrant and pretty girl who went by the name Cookie. She had felt safe working the SeaTac Strip because she had a male protector in real life.

#9

After sketches of the girl’s face in death were published, her traumatized family realized why she hadn’t come home. She was barely sixteen. Opal had a mother and father and a big brother who cared deeply about her.

#10

Kathy and Robert Mills were married in 1963, and had their first child, Garrett, in 1964. They were married in a state that did not have any laws against miscegenation, but Kathy’s family still cut her off from them.

#11

Robert Mills’s expectations for his son were extremely high. He wanted him to become everything that he himself had failed to achieve. Garrett was expected to take care of his little sister, Opal, and keep her safe.

#12

The Mills family, who lived next door to the Gordons, seemed to be a happy family. But behind closed doors, Robert Mills was a violent and bitter man. He used to hit his children with a belt or a hammer if he felt they were doing something wrong.

#13

Garrett grew up with a nurturing mother and a father who was becoming increasingly bitter. He went to junior high school, where he was bullied for his goofy looks and small head. He didn’t feel like a fighter.

#14

By the time Garrett reached high school, he had a major chip on his shoulder. He was still being bullied, and he had to protect his sister from it. He moved away from home when he was sixteen, unwilling to endure his father’s attitude any longer.

#15

Opal had developed a romantic obsession with a boy named Glen, and she would write him letters. She had been