Prothero / Smith Defending Gary

Unraveling the Mind of the Green River Killer
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8508-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

At first, Mark Prothero, Defense Attorney for GaryRidgway, thought: "This can't be the Green River Killer! He'stoo ordinary! He's too small. He's too calm. He's too polite! Hecan't possibly have murdered forty-nine women. They can't beserious! They must have screwed up! I didn't realize then, but Iwas right. Gary Ridgway hadn't killed forty-nine women. He'd killed even more than that."
Soon, Mark Prothero faced the question: "How could you possiblydefend the most prolific serial killer in United Stateshistory, the infamous Green River Killer? If anyone deservedto be executed for his crimes, didn't he?"
Mark Prothero, co-lead defense attorney who helped save GaryRidgway from the death sentence, has heard that question manytimes. Now he's written a book that reveals the true, insidestory of exactly how an idealistic public defender, high schoolswim coach, husband, and dad could bring himself to spend manymonths of close confinement with a man who brutally murdered atleast 75 young women, often in the act of sex. DefendingGary shows how Prothero could reconcile these monstrous actsknowing the reality of this unassuming fellow Gary Ridgway, amild-mannered, church-going, devoted husband, father, and formerNavy man, with an IQ of around 82 and a longtime job as a truckpainter from Auburn, Washington, near Seattle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prothero, Mark

Smith, Carlton

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
About Our Sources.
Part One: The News.
Part Two: The Team.
Part Three: The Deal.
Part Four: The Talk.
Part Five: The Truth.
Notes.
About the Authors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Prothero was a co-lead defense attorney for GaryRidgway ("the Green River Killer"). Currently, he is a criminaldefense attorney and a partner in the law firm of Hanis Greaney,PLLC, in Kent, Washington.
Carlton Smith is an award-winning journalist who hasworked for the Los Angeles Times, Willamette Week, and the SeattleTimes. Smith was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in InvestigativeReporting for his work on the Green River murder case.