. >> remember rebecca guarde, the victim who got away? the prostitute who struggled and ran? ridgway, you recall, had shown her his kenworth i.d. in an attempt to make her believe he was not the green river killer. of course, he didn't intend to let her live to tell about it, but she did live and tell police, just not soon enough. >> i thought for many years that he was out still looking for me. >> he later admitted to investigators that she was one of his biggest mistakes. >> she eventually told the task force and that was one of the reasons why they were investigating me. that was my downfall. of it. the detective says if you would have killed her, we wouldn't have found you like this. >> after hours and hours of tough questioning, task force interrogators could not resist rubbing it in. they taunted ridgway about getting caught literally with his pants down. >> if you were such an accomplished killer, gary, how did rebecca guarde get away from you? >> i had my pants down around my ankles and i couldn't get them around her waist to hold her. otherwise if i would have, i wou

>> no. >> jose malvar and rebecca guarde weren't the only ones to tell the green river task force about gary ridgway. in 1984 and again in '86, two other prostitutes told them they thought ridgway was connected to the disappearance of two of their friends who were working the streets. but it took until 1987 before detectives launched an investigation. they interviewed ridgway's former girlfriends and wives. and the picture that emerged was that of a sexually aggressive young man who had trouble with relationships from early on. police learned that gary ridgway was already 20 when he graduated from high school in 1969. that he joined the navy and got married that same summer. he and his wife moved to san diego. by the time gary returned from a six-month tour of duty cruise, his wife was romantically involved with another man. according to police documents, he accused her of being a whore and giving him sexually transmitted diseases, diseases navy records show he had before going to sea. ridgway acquaintances said he often complained that he gotten venereal diseases from prostitutes. his

senior guard rebecca hittner throws it into reverse. then to daniels for the 3. yeah! take that, valley fans. dowling wednesday, 71-56. this is avery markowski. you make the call. andy: avery, thank you. indianola at east. indianola had a 10-point lead. they were in control. carrington kuehl goes baseline. the little scoop reverse. east's awal ajak buries the 3. right here, not it down. but it was not enough. indianola comes in and beats the scarlet on the road, 62-52. more 5a girls basketball. a great coaching matchup. and that is shiloh mccool drives the bucket. then, it is abby penquite driving inside. southeast polk led, but waukee was going to fight back. andie mataloni hits the jumper. knock that down. 77-64 the final. casey: it helps us going into the turn a, because it shows us we can do it. we can make it to state as long as we want to. a big win. tracy: we have gone through a i feel like we are together at the right time. waukee is a great team. we knew it was what we 32 minutes of battle. i was really route of the way our girls stepped up with focused on reb

tonight, guarded by nypd officers, wanted posters with photos of 23-year-old michael sykes, the man police say killed three. his own daughter just four months old, his girlfriend, the mother, rebecca cutler, and her one-year-old stabbed and to live in hospital as a two-year- old. >> i think we can all agree this is a heinous crime. >> reporter: police were called to the hotel after a housekeeper found the mother and children barely alive. investigators say before 9:00 a.m., sykes took cutler to a deli and was seen in the hospital -- in the hallway. been police say he went into carry out the crimes in less not long after the murders, police say sykes boarded the staten island ferry, his whereabouts now unknown. his mother told police her son called at -- admitted guilt and said he wanted to kill himself. coker was staying with her kids as part of a city program. ignorance hotel rooms for the homeless. for the residence there for the same reason boarded school buses and were taken to other shelters. james madison of brooklyn is cutler's uncle. he says he spoke to her three weeks ago. >> she was happy. doing fine, kids is beautiful. >> reporter: leading up to this, the couple argued

death his girlfriend rebecca cutler along daughter and her other daughters but one of them is alive. james mathis is cutler's uncle. >> the kids was beautiful. >> the nypd guarded the scene of the crime last night where wanted posters hang outside. police swarmed the hotel yesterday morning after a housekeeper found the mother and children. the nypd says they and sykes had gone to a deli earlier and when they returned to the ramada sykes initially stayed in the hallway. >> we find him going into the room about 8:50 in the morning and leaves about four minutes later so we believe that's when the attack happens. he then gets on a bus and takes it to the ferry. >> investigators say sykes called a family member around 10:30 and admitted to the crime. police knew of one prior argument between sykes and when cutler reported to police that sykes had taken her phone. cutler and her daughters were temporal living in the hotel as part of the department of homeless services shelter system. the city now says the hotel will no longer be used to house shelter residents and starting today the city will offer free security to the other private hotels they work with. meantime p

guarding the police are looking for michael sykes, who threatened to kill himself after the stabbings. >> she struggled and struggled. this is what happened. >> reporter: a family member talks about the life of rebecca cutler, the 26-year-old mother of three stabbed to death yesterday morning, along with two of her young children. a third child, a 2-year-old girl girl survived the stabbing and is listed in critical condition and expected to survive. police say her boy present, michael sykes -- her boyfriend, michael sykes, is the man who did it. >> we want him off of the streets as fast as we can. >> reporter: police say this exclusive video will help. it shows him in castleton corners just minutes before it's believed he stabbed cutler, her 2-year-old and 1- year-old daughters and 4-month- old little girl the couple share. police believe it happened around 9:00 yesterday morning gannon avenue that serves as a homeless shelter. relatives say they found out about the tragedy on the news. >> they are taking it real bad, especially my wife and her sisters. rebecca sess sisters, they're taking it real hard. >> reporter: police tell us they also recovered a bloody knife at the scene, the same knife they