This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland, and Josh McCullough tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised. Oh, In the early 1980s, a terrifying pattern started to emerge, young women and girls disappearing from the Seattle

Tacoma area. It would take a little over two years for most people to realize the

severity of the pattern. When multiple bodies of strangled females were discovered in the green river and surrounding forests,

the media put the population on high alert.

There was a prolific serial killer here in the Pacific Northwest. This week on Murder in the Rain,

we revisit the case of the Green River Killer in preparation for next week's discussion

with Nick Edwards, one half of the dynamic duo who hosts the popular

podcast True Crime Garage. In July of 1982, two young boys riding their bikes

over the Meeker Street Bridge which stretched across the

green river just outside of Kent made a terrifying discovery, the nude body of a girl floating in the water.

The body turned out to be 16 year old Wendy Lee

Caulfield who had been strangled with her own clothing and her body disposed of in

the river. The last time anyone had seen Windy was on July 8th when she was spotted in the Tacoma area.

After running away from a juvenile detention center in Pierce County,

Wendy began participating in sex work to support herself.

After the discovery of Wendy's body,

the proverbial floodgates opened

and within weeks the bodies of four more young women

were discovered in or around the same river. Four weeks after the discovery of

Wendy's body, a worker at a Kent Washington slaughterhouse found a body of a woman floating

in the green river.

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