title: Cold Cases: The World's Most Challenging Investigations From BTK To The Green River Killer
author: Charlotte Greig
description: THE WORLD'S MOST CHALLENGING INVESTIGATIONS, FROM BTK TO THE GREEN RIVER
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  COLD HIT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I am spellbound by the mystery of murder.
  
  
  —Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  It was after eight o’clock, and all I could see of the sun was its gleaming
  crown as it slipped behind the row of steep cliffs, giving off an iridescent
  pink haze that signaled the end of a long August day. Brackish gray water
  swirled and broke against the large rocks that edged the mound of dirt on
  which I stood, spitting up at my ankles as I stared out to the west at the
  Palisades. The pleats of my white linen skirt, which had seemed so cool and
  weightless as I moved about the airconditioned courtroom all afternoon, were
  plastered against my thighs by the humidity, and I swatted off the mosquitoes
  as they searched for a place to land on my forearms.
  
  
  I turned away from the striking vista across the Hudson  River and glanced
  down at the body of the woman that had snagged on the boulders less than an
  hour earlier.
  
  
  The detective from the Crime Scene Unit reloaded 