Additionally, investigators determined that he was not in the Seattle area when most of the killings occurred he was either in Spokane, Portland, or Vancouver. Bob produced receipts that seemed to prove that Bill was travelling with their parents when the first five victims were murdered. Specifically, he was visiting Bob in Connecticut in 1982 when the killings first started.Īfter the visit, Bill and his parents continued on a cross-country trip. Bill told him that he could not have committed the killings because he was on a trip with their parents at the time. Bob claims that he met with his brother while in prison. However, within a few months, the police cleared him, partially due to an alibi. That summer, he was also publicly named a suspect in the Green River killings. Later in January of 1989, Stevens was finally arrested and charged with felony escape, along with several weapons charges. It was dressed in woman's underwear and placed in an obscene pose. She claimed that inside there was a bed with a mannequin laying on it. A neighbor later told investigators that Stevens had brought her into the room. It could only be accessed by using an automatic garage door opener. The new owners showed the detectives that, in the basement, Stevens had a secret room hidden behind a bookshelf. Investigators later searched a second house in Portland, where Stevens had lived until 1985. This would have made it easier for him to find potential victims. He also had an ambulance and a police motorcycle. Investigators later discovered that Stevens had a fully-equipped police car that he was able to get registered to a non-existent city. In another room, they found several pornographic tapes and fraudulent credit card receipts from 1981 to 1989. They also found dozens of Polaroids of nude women, most of them prostitutes. They found a cache of guns and police badges. In January of 1989, investigators received a tip about Bill Stevens and searched his parents' home in Spokane. He also wanted to fill them with rocks and tape his crimes. He told friends that the prostitutes were "spreading the AIDS epidemic along the Sea-Tac strip," According to his adopted brother, Robert "Bob" Stevens, he often told people that he wanted to kidnap, torture, kill, and dissect women.
#GREEN RIVER KILLER SERIAL#
He fit the FBI profile of a serial killer, including having a poor relationship with women, a mother that throttled his personality and development, and a hatred for prostitutes. Roderick Thorp, author of the book "River", noted that Stevens seemed the perfect suspect. Over the next eight years, he avoided the authorities, spending time in Seattle, Spokane, and Portland. "Bill" Stevens, a petty thief in 1981, he casually walked away from a minimum security facility while doing time for burglary. Over the years, investigators have followed hundreds of leads and looked into dozens of suspects. The case remains one of the largest unsolved serial murder cases in United States history. Almost all of them had worked along the Sea-Tac strip near the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. All of them had been strangled and dumped in remote areas.
The first five victims were found in 1982. Details: Between 19, forty-nine young women, most of them prostitutes, were found murdered and dumped near the Green River near Seattle.
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