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Mixing the gritty criminal investigation with occasional theological references to the killer - “Do you think he is part of God’s plan?” asks Reichert’s wife, who previously asserts that God is watching over them - is like blending salad dressing with syrup. The story itself, a repetitive tale unfolding at a languid pace, impedes the effort. Using dark colors and jarring images, director Norma Bailey tries to infuse the work with suspense and mystery. Only now she does them as a ghost, sometimes as she hangs around with the ghosts of other victims.

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Even that doesn’t stop her from doing pretentious voice-overs about free will and whether God likes her. The Capture of the Green River Killer is a 65 minute mini-series-drama-documentary-crime starring Currie Graham as Captain Norwell, Tom Cavanagh as Dave. Helen will, of course, become another of the killer’s victims. She was found on August 12, 1982, and her death was almost immediately linked to the deaths of two other.

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Lawrence plays the girl’s burned-out, desperately insecure mother, a cliche character that scores points for Lawrence only in that it demonstrates her willingness to camouflage her good looks if the part demands it. According to History Link, Seattle law enforcement first realized that they had a serial killer on their hands when the remains of a 23-year-old woman named Debra Lynn Bonner were pulled from the Green River by a local slaughterhouse worker.

She also writes and quotes poetry and ponders about the role of fate and the nature of God, making her sort of a cross between Paris Hilton and Jean-Paul Sartre. So Pielmeier concocts a parallel story about a teenager, Helen (Amy Davidson), who drinks, shoplifts, snorts coke and falls in and out of prostitution. This being a Lifetime miniseries, though, women need to do more than play corpses.

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Far more puzzling, though, is why the Lifetime Movie Network chose this morbid and dreary project for its first miniseries and why Tom Cavanagh and Sharon Lawrence signed on.Ĭavanagh plays tireless Detective Reichert, who labors seemingly without rest to find the guy who ultimately would confess to 71 murders, mostly of teenage runaways and young prostitutes. Told in vivid detail by the man who knows the whole story, this is a real life suspense story of unparalleled heroism.Assuming you do not remember the details of the case (it’s only been a little more than four years since sentencing was imposed), the miniseries hopes you will stay interested by guessing which of the suspects would turn out to be the real killer. Tom Cavanagh stars as Washington State Sheriff Dave Reichert, who used guile, wits, and perseverance to hunt the Green River Killer, bringing an end to the. It would be yet another 11 haunting years before forensic science could prove Ridgway's guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. But Reichert's hunt didn't end when he finally cornered a truck painter named Gary Ridgway. He was the first detective on the case in 1982, doggedly pursuing clues as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous unsolved case in the nation.įrantically following all of his leads, Sheriff Reichert befriended the victims families, publicly challenged the killer, and risked his own safety - and the endurance and love of his family - before he found his madman. Gary Ridgway had been a suspect in the killings for 18 years when he was finally arrested. Sunday-Monday, March 30-31 Lifetime Movie Network Although he probably holds the title of America’s most prolific serial killer, the story of the Green River Killer, and particularly. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV.

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Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer - a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.įor eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. How close had they gotten to the Green River Killer.