I saw on Cold Case Files the story and capture of the Green River murderer, Gary Ridgeway. Reichert deserves to win a seat in Congress for his diligence in getting that vicious criminal. We need good men in Congress, and he sounds like a good one. Good luck to him.
Reichert is much loved around here and a real straight arrow. He graduated from a Lutheran college in Portland, Oregon but his home has been in the King County area for 51 years or so.
After the Green River murders had ceased, I used to live very close to that River ... where a lot of the bodies were found. It was really, really creepy to learn that Ridgeway, when arrested, lived about two miles from the place I had recently moved from, meaning, I had lived near him for about six months. Plus, he worked at a place not far from where I live now.
It was one of those cases we were all very glad to have solved; it had been an open wound to the community for decades. Reichert conducted himself throughout the extraordinarily long and painful ordeal in an exemplary manner, and has been an excellent sheriff.