we return to chasing the devil. here again is stone phillips. returning to our story, after 20 years, sheriff dave reichert has caught the green river killer. now gary ridgway is going to sit down with investigators and reveal the secrets of his killing spree. for the past hour, you ve seen the evidence of his brutal crimes. now something just as horrifying. a look inside the mind of the man who committed them. once again, john larson. state of washington versus ridgway. prosecutors were determined to seek the death penalty and the people of seattle were with them, but they also knew that a trial involving multiple murders from 20 years ago would go on
hundreds of hours they spent interviewing gary ridgway, trying to get him to come clean, a process that generated more than 8,500 pages of transcripts, they were never able to get any definitive information about murders during those years. they did learn that gary ridgway s rage against women was so all-consuming that he wanted to kill his mother and all three of his wives. what stopped him? the answer to that and then, the sheriff himself faces down the man he hunted for 20 years. one on one, he ll stare him down. but can he get the truth out of the green river killer? when chasing the devil returns.