As the hours creep by, the task force discovers the killer's bizarre, aquarium-bound weapon.
A task force hunting a serial killer blamed for four killings has joined the investigation into the disappearance of a Louisiana State University student during Mardi Gras.
Police from New Orleans and the city's surrounding parishes, believing that one person was responsible for the slayings, teamed up with the FBI and formed a task force to catch the killer.
"Where's that coffee?" she blurts smirkily before promptly linking the case with an earlier unsolved murder, telling everyone to tuck their shirts in, and launching a task force determined to stop the killer before he strikes again.
More than forty law-enforcement officers formed a task force to hunt down the killer, but by early 1984 the case had not been solved, and a heated primary campaign was under way for the job of state's attorney in DuPage County.
"I cannot say with certainty that Gary Ridgway is responsible for all of those deaths," said Sheriff Reichert, one of the original detectives on the task force assigned to find the serial killer.
His father, an uber-cop, is killed by the brother of a bad guy arms dealer that he's trying to bring to justice, and Hawaii's governor (Jean Smart) offers him a no-holds-barred state task force gig to find his father's killer and give her scummier citizens a good ass-kicking.
By the time the Highway of Tears Symposium launched, an RCMP task force called E-PANA had been put together to investigate whether a serial killer (or killers) was responsible for the deaths and disappearances along the highway.
"It would be hard for me to imagine that they could find stuff without some sort of cooperation," said Bob Keppel, a former detective and member of the original Green River Task Force who also spent 15 years investigating the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who grew up in Tacoma, Wash.
The murders garnered national attention when a police officer was named a suspect, and a task force assembled to investigate the crimes suggested more than one killer was responsible.
