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TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.

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