17 bodies

[debbie299]

Does anyone else find it strange that the 17 bodies that were found by Linden had never been seen by anyone? I'm sure that noone went walking thru the woods on a regular basis but how about planes that had flown over? The bodies were in pink biohazard bags so it's not like they couldn't have been easily spotted. And, please...correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the 17 girls murdered over a period of 6 yrs? (I noticed that someone said that some girls were murdered before Seward's wife was killed.)  How could so many girls have been murdered and noone noticed...no suspicions...no nothing. I realize that these were homeless girls that hung out in the streets but it looks as if they all had friends. Noone questioned anything about this? This is all so unrealistic...

[merryone]

^^^ I also think it's strange that 17 young girls disappeared IN THE SAME 6-MONTH PERIOD for crying out loud, 3-5 years ago (that's what the coroner said) and yet it didn't arouse enough suspicion to cause something like the formation of a police task force. On the other hand, a lot of these young prostitutes are probably drifters who make their way to the coast from other parts of the country and thus have very few local ties that would notice they're missing. Some however have since been identified and there was, after all, a long line of anxious family members at the police station to inquire, once the story broke.

As far as the biohazard bags never having been seen before, apparently the dump site was generally submerged in enough water to conceal them. I still think it's strange that they went undetected for the past 3-5 years, although I don't have any sense of how remote the site is supposed to be.  We know Adrian was there though and it made a big impression on him!

[Genius Killing]

I don't know about Seattle and it's rural areas. My hometown had factories on its outskirts that were in walking distance of neighborhoods. Am curious to know if Adrian walked there (dumpsite was within walking distance). I just don't believe a drought in our rainy city occurred enough for the pond to recede and the bags to appear. Ponds around here fill up at nothing.

[Deleted]

I found this article from EW to be very insightful: 

Sud cited two sources of inspiration for the new storyline:

"Photographer Mary Ellen Mark’s shots of street kids in the 1970s, and the police investigation of Washington state serial killer Gary Ridgway. “What fascinated me was not the psychology of the guy — that was uncomplicated and bland,” she says of the Ridgway case. “It was the fact that so many women could disappear and no one would notice. Stranger killings are very difficult to solve. And this took 20 years and 50-plus women killed. The police ‘murder board’ had all these pictures, most were mugshots … staring at you, not smiling. The more I looked at those photos I started to imagine the burden of responsibility those cops felt seeing those women look at them every day.”

insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/01/the-killing-showrunner-season-3/

[Genius Killing]

And in the preview, who is sitting looking at the faces?