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Addictive fervor. >> gary ridgway, even up until the time he was arrested, enjoyed the excitement of hunting for prostitutes. he enjoyed the control that it gave him when he got one in his car. and whatever he did afterwards, this was all about gary ridgeway's pleasure. >> in fact, only weeks before he was charged in the green river murders, he was picked up once again by the vice squad for soliciting prostitution. and ridgway's chief defense attorney tony savage used that fact. arguing that his client patronized hundreds of prostitutes, even prostitutes who later turned up dead. and that it p...

Ridgway readily admitted he patronized prostitutes with an addictive fervor. >> gary ridgway, even up until the time he was arrested, enjoyed the excitement of hunting for prostitutes. he enjoyed the control that it gave him had he got one in his car, and whatever he did afterwards, this was all about gary ridgway's pleasure. >> in fact, only weeks before he was charged in the green river murders, he was picked up once again by the vice squad for soliciting prostitution. and ridgway's chief defense attorney tony savage used that fact. arguing that his client patronized hundreds of prostitutes,...

The operations that they run is they have an undercover police woman stroll down the strip posing as a prostitute. within minutes, pimps start approaching her. you need someone to take care of you. what do you expect the scenario to be tonight? >> pimps. if that is a new girl that they don't recognize as having a pimp or knowing that she belongs to another pimp, they will try to recruit her. >> lieutenant karen hughes runs the vice squad. it includes the pimp investigative team. her unit arrested nearly 100 pimps in 2009 while seizing more than half a million dollars, 19 vehicles and seven gun...

Welcome back to "vegas undercover raw." we have seen vegas police officers putting themselves on the line to hunt down the dangerous violent men controlling the prostitution industry, the pimps. next, you will see what happens when the vegas vice squad sets up another undercover sting, this time to take down the call girls. >> what are you targeting? >> the prostitute that makes her living out of more than just prostitution. >> karen hughes is in charge of this vice squad. she is not just going after the working girls for prostitution but she is taking aim at theft. >> she is stealing from h...

Atlanta, georgia. the heartbeat of the south. >> i was born and raised in atlanta all my life. i love this city. >> he runs the internet crime aainst children division. it's late spring. the search begins. with ads like these. they use words like fresh, petite, and open 24 hours. kennedy's team identifies the ads that look suspicious. >> she looks really young here, really young on there. the vice squad sets up the sting.