By the time investigators counted 9 Green River victims, Ridgway had actually already killed 12 women — the true order of killings remained unknown for years.
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Shonda Summers left her family in San Diego to live with her father in Seattle, but after being arrested on a prostitution charge and her father refusing to post bail, she took off with her boyfriend. In October 1982, she vanished — and it took nearly a month for anyone to even file a missing persons report, with no one able to clearly recall the last time they'd seen her. Her badly decomposed body was found in August 1983 by an apple-picking couple near the strip, close to where Giselle LaVorne had been discovered the year before. Advanced decomposition made it impossible to determine cause of death. The task force added her to the list as victim number 9. But Alaina drops the chilling corrective: Shonda was actually victim number 12 — the true order of Ridgway's crimes wouldn't be untangled for years.
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