Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat. His company was worth half a billion dollars.

His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer. But the brilliant doctor was hiding a secret.

You can listen to Dr Death Bad Magic, ad free by subscribing to Wundry Plus in the Wundry

app or on Apple Podcasts. This podcast explores themes of murder and rape.

The listener discretion is advised.

The victims are typically young women, many of them runaways and prostitutes.

The sheer number of murders

raises suspicion that a serial killer is at work. Mountains of Washington offer

some excellent terrain for hiding bodies you're not finding a large number of bodies.

He said to us, like, why would I change the way that I killed these women because it was working?

I had a problem with killing women back then.

You think of that as an illness?

I don't know if it wasn't on this or I just wanted to kill so. 1983 is a momentous year in King County, Washington. Local Tech startup Microsoft announces its new Windows operating system.

Boeing manufactures its 1,000 737 aircraft and the Seattle Seahawks make the playoffs for the very first time.

But there's a different story dominating the front pages.

The Green River Killer is a constant presence from the morning papers to the evening news.

But the reports aren't about a far-off conflict or an upcoming election.

This is a relentless reminder that someone in the community is murdering young women and getting away with it.

I want to know what the media scrutiny is like for the detectives on the case.

What is it like for the journalists in the trenches?

And I want to understand the fear the public felt

living in a world of murder.

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