Today, Eakes keeps at least one connection to the office: her son, Sam Gray, a senior in high school, is now an intern at the King County Prosecutor’s office. There’s a pressure to ensure that justice is done and to make sure that some horrible, dangerous person is not out on the streets.” “Every case you handle as a criminal deputy has huge implications for the victims and their families whether it’s a sexual assault or murder case. When I left, I felt the weight of responsibility lifted from me,” Eakes said. “It wasn’t until I left that I realized I had seen some really awful, bad things. He choked the women and dumped their clothes out the window,” Eakes said.Īfter the Green River case and a stint in the civil division, Eakes left the prosecutor’s office to work in private practice and is a founding member of the firm Calfo Harrigan Leyh and Eakes where she practices in civil litigation and white collar criminal matters. “He had a tried and true method of doing things and he never varied from it. He didn’t take souvenirs or try to taunt the police or try to increase the excitement by trying new things.”
The idea that they keep souvenirs from their victims. You hear about serial killers’ motivations. “Ridgway was the anti-serial killer in every way. You had to remind yourself that he could strangle you and have sex with your dead body.” He seemed kind of normal, but strange and geeky. “Ridgway shattered all the myths of serial killer profiles for me,” Eakes said, who was part of the team that interviewed Ridgway extensively for six months after his arrest to gain information on all of his murders. Later, King County law enforcement called upon the same expert profiler at the FBI, Mary Ellen O’Toole, to help them with the Green River Killer profile. “Who does that to a 2-year-old? With a hammer?!” “I think of that every year on the anniversary of the case in November,” Eakes said. Law enforcement and prosecutors took the case to behavioral scientists at the FBI in Quantico for their help in putting together a profile of the killer, but that case was never solved. Another time, Eakes went to an apartment where a mother and her 2-year-old daughter had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer. The first scene Eakes was called out on involved a dead baby. MDOP prosecutors carried pagers, and later, bulky cellphones so they could be called out to every suspicious death scene in King County in the event they might eventually need to build a case for the prosecution. The friendships and humor and collegiality in the prosecutor’s office served as a backdrop to the serious work that often took Eakes to grisly crime scenes as one of the original prosecutors in the Most Dangerous Offenders Project that formed in 1995. We want to remind you of our office policy requiring you to get clearance for all work outside the office.” The station apologized profusely, but colleagues at the office weren’t finished with the ripe opportunity the erroneous report provided.Įakes says she got an email from the HR department later that day: “We heard on the news that you have an outside job.
She called the newsroom to let them know she was the prosecutor on the case, not the prostitute.Įakes laughs as she recounts the story.
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