The Nation - News from July 14, 1989
A former law student is a “viable suspect” in the Green River slayings, the nation’s worst serial murder case, according to court documents. The case involves the deaths of 41 women and the disappearance of at least eight others in Washington and Oregon from 1982 to 1985. Almost all of the victims were linked to prostitution. William Jay Stevens II, 38, was named in an affidavit filed to support a search warrant for two of his residences in Spokane, Wash. He has not been charged. He is currently serving a one-year term in the King County Jail for the burglary of a police equipment supply store in 1979. He had walked away from a work-release program in 1981 and was not found until last December.
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