





Long before he came to the Hill, Rep. Dave Reichert chased after one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers.

He once found a note nailed to the door of his home, threatening to kill him and his family if he didn’t give up looking for a suspect in the Green River Killer case.

On his first day on the case, he may have been less than an hour behind the killer — who was finally caught almost two decades later.

The Washington Republican narrates harrowing stories from his law enforcement days trying to catch the Green River Killer in the latest of the House Republicans’ “Snapshots” video series .

Reichert described his role in the Green River Killer task force . For almost 20 years, beginning in 1982, serial killer Gary Ridgway murdered dozens of women and girls in the Seattle area.