Green River Running Red by Ann Rule, is a book that describes the story of the investigations of the King County sheriff and the hunt for a serial killer who 20 years after his first murder would was identified as Gary Leon Ridgeway. Now that I have read about some of Ridgeway's forty-eight victims and their lives of prostitution before he killed them along with the details of each murder investigation, I will outline two crime scenes as described in the book and the trial in which they were killed. they were studied in the 1980s. Then, I will take on the role of lead investigator and re-examine the scenes using the various systems, technologies and external resources available to investigators today that were not available at the time of the crime. Crime Scenario 1: On a hot Sunday in August 1982, a local King County man was drifting down the river on a rubber raft looking for antique bottles or anything of value in the murky, shallow waters , but instead found horror. Peering into the murky water the beam could make out what appeared to be two motionless figures floating beneath the surface with their eyes turned to the sky. The man immediately asked a passerby for help in alerting the King County Sheriff's Office that the two bodies had been found floating in the river. (Rule, p.13) The Investigation: After the King County Sheriff's Office learned of the body found in the river, several deputies were dispatched to the scene along with the search and rescue operation. When the first officers arrived, the officers claimed that the two bodies in the river were actually female bodies and that they were somehow being kept near the bottom of the river. One officer began documenting the scene by taking photos while the other began recording video... middle of paper... and linking the cases together by notifying each agency that a similar murder case exists and where. (Swanson, p.305) Now that I have discussed the many new investigative resources available today, I am confident in believing that many aspects of the way the King County investigation was conducted would have been different and that their efforts would have been very more efficient if they had had the use of today's technologies at hand in the 1980s. However, all investigators understand that they must work to the best of their ability with what is available to them at the time and cannot focus on what is not. Crime scene investigations can be a daunting task with long hours, exhausted leads, pressure from the media and being the first source to blame when cases remain unsolved. Investigators are the unsung heroes whose work may not always be recognized but should be recognized.