"Very Bad Men" told the disturbing story of Gary Krueger, a former police officer turned cold-blooded killer. Krueger was a Vietnam veteran who went on to become a cop, and then a criminal.
Police matched Krueger’s DNA to the murder of Washington state realtor Mike Emert -- a brutal stabbing that police said left blood “everywhere.”
But Krueger was dead. His body had been found at the bottom of a lake. Investigators believe he’d drowned while trying to flee a home invasion gone wrong. They then started to connect different cold cases together.
As they investigated further, police discovered that Krueger was buried in gambling debt and had apparently become a professional hitman. "Write up a terrible, evil character. A serial killer, a man with no soul, and think it’s fiction. But you’re really writing about Gary Krueger," said journalist Chris Halsne.
Local reports from Seattle said that Krueger had a "mean reputation" as a police officer in the 1970s. After that, he reportedly robbed about a dozen banks.
Still, there are many open questions about Krueger's life and crimes that may never be answered.
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