Defending Gary
Unraveling the Mind of the Green River Killer
Chapter One
I continued meeting with Gary throughout the summer,
while all of this political pushing and shoving over the money
needed to defend him was going on. Like others on our team who had
contact with him, I continued to marvel at his demeanor. He simply
was not acting like someone accused of being a heinous, multiple
murderer. He showed almost no evidence of mental stress and was unfailingly
polite and friendly. The jailers unanimously agreed he was a
model prisoner-cooperative almost to a fault. He continued to deny
that he'd ever killed anyone, although admitting that he had patronized
hundreds, many even a thousand, prostitutes over the years, a fact
that he also said made him ashamed of himself.
"You know, what you ought to do," Gary suggested, "is try to track
down some of the ladies I dated. They'll tell you I was a nice, normal
customer. I treated them well."
"You mean, to show that you weren't ever violent or dangerous?" I
asked.
"Yeah, not violent or dangerous," he said. ... read full excerpt from Defending Gary: Unraveling the Mind of the Green River Killer ebook
