'We got cut, cut, and finally it was just me. Budget cuts to the Green River task force slowly dwindled the team down to one. 'It did bother me that she was so young and she was unidentified.' They didn’t know her name, so investigators began referring to her as Bones 10. He remembers the victim, just bones then but mainly intact, was in the fetal position. I was a burglary theft detective and I got moved into a serial murder investigation.' 'What you have to understand is I wasn’t a homicide detective when I started this case. 'We spent the majority of 1984 recovering bodies.'įor Detective Jensen, the call to the little league baseball field was his first murder case on the Green River task force. This latest victim was one of six victims who’d been found within a less than two-week timeframe 18-year-old Cheryl Wims was found the next day, less than 100 feet from her. The victim added to the overwhelming list of girls and young women who fell prey to the Green River killer. RELATED: Case of the 'Green River Killer' examined in documentary We went over there and probably within five minutes one of the officers had spotted the rest of the remains,' explains retired detective Tom Jensen. 'The manager over at the little league baseball field in Burien, his dog had come home with a bone and he thinks it looks like it might be human.

The capture of the green river killer