http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
Claims to have killed over 70 women, but the real number is more likely near 90. He said at one point in time that murdering young women was his "career".
This one has really fascinated me over the last few years, maybe because I live near were he worked and also live near the Green River. It was pretty amazing how they caught him (matching the paint flecks on his victims to the type of paint that Kenworth used).
It's so odd that I never heard of this man. He killed SOOO many and it wasn't that long ago. I even lived in Tacoma WA for a few years and nothing comes to mind.
I love how while trying to find out about the green river killer they got bundy to confess to more killings
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It's so odd that I never heard of this man. He killed SOOO many and it wasn't that long ago. I even lived in Tacoma WA for a few years and nothing comes to mind.
I love how while trying to find out about the green river killer they got bundy to confess to more killings
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Wow. This is a very popular one here, he's the biggest serial killer from this area.
This is a great CCF about The Green River Killer and the detective that hunted him down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGsy6Y1J78I
Other parts of the video are on the actual youtube page.
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This is a great CCF about The Green River Killer and the detective that hunted him down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGsy6Y1J78I
Other parts of the video are on the actual youtube page.
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Yeah I saw that not too long ago. It was very interesting.
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Wow. This is a very popular one here, he's the biggest serial killer from this area.
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From this area?
He may have killed up to 90! I would think that put's him on par with the biggest of all time. Yet I have never heard of him
Gary Ridgeway just made me feel like a dummy. I hate him for that :x
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From this area?
He may have killed up to 90! I would think that put's him on par with the biggest of all time. Yet I have never heard of him
Gary Ridgeway just made me feel like a dummy. I hate him for that :x
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Seattle area.
I can't believe you have never heard of the green river killer. He is as big as Bundy!
You should write him and tell him that.
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Seattle area.
I can't believe you have never heard of the green river killer. He is as big as Bundy!
You should write him and tell him that.
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No.I Meant Not just your area. Motherfucker should be global with those kinds of numbers.
To my defense, My time in Tacoma/Seattle was a foggy haze... and I was deployed for part of it
But now I'm fascinated and have been reading about him.
Gary Ridgway, the Seattle-area truck painter who was unmasked as the Green River serial killer and went on to plead guilty to killing 49 women, now claims that he killed closer to 80 women over two decades.
In exclusive interviews with ABC News affiliate KOMO, Ridgway, who is currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences in a Washington State penitentiary, told reporter Charlie Harger that he is confessing to dozens more murders to help bring closure to the families of his unidentified victims.
"The total number [of victims] is 75 to 80," Ridgway said in a phone interview recorded by Harger and broadcast on KOMO.
Ridgway, who said he is a changed man who has found God, now says that while he was telling police of his crimes following his 2001 arrest and subsequent confession, there was more he could have said to help locate other victims. But Harger said he remains skeptical about Ridgway's motive and tendency to lie.
"The strange thing about Gary Ridgway is if you didn't know the depravity, if you didn't know the evil that this man committed, you would have no clue when you talked on the phone with him," said Harger, a reporter for KOMO Newsradio. "This man sounds like he would be a perfect neighbor."
Ridgway confessed that he picked up prostitutes and teen runaways throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Washington's King County, strangled them during sex and dumped their bodies in remote areas near King County's 65-mile long Green River.
Ridgway had been a suspect in the killings for years, but it wasn't until 2001 that he was arrested, thanks to DNA testing advances. To avoid the death penalty, Ridgway confessed to 48 murders in 2003. In 2011 a 49th body was found, and he received an additional life sentence.
Now that he has admitted to dozens of other murders, the question remains whether he is now genuinely trying to help the families of supposed victims, or if he's trying to "up his count" for further notoriety.
Harger said that Ridgway is a sly, deceptive man.
"Gary Ridgway is absolutely playing me. He's playing everybody when he talks," Harger said. "I don't think Gary Ridgway can even comprehend the truth.
"I think he wants to show the world that, 'Here I am, Gary Ridgway, the truck painter from Kenworth, the guy who everybody thought was slow since elementary school, somebody who couldn't hold a candle to Ted Bundy. But, here I am, and I'm the best at something,'" Harger said.
Ridgway has been speaking with Air Force criminal investigator Rob Fitzgerald for years about his crimes, and for the past five years, Fitzgerald has hunted for unidentified victims of the Green River Killer. The two men speak multiple times per week, KOMO reports, and Ridgway even provides Fitzgerald with photos of supposed "dump sites" that he says should be searched.
Despite Ridgway's dubious motive for divulging these locations, Harger said he should still be heard, for a possible "nugget of truth" in what might be a web of lies.
"Maybe if we listen to the clues and cut through his lies, we will find a nugget of truth, the clue investigators have waited for," he said. "It's a chance we have to take."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/green-river...ry?id=20282652
It took them freakin' forever to find him.
Have you read "Green River, Running Red" by Ann Rule? Pretty good. A lot of focus on the victims, which is nice as a lot of people kind of dismissed them because they were "just prostitutes." :(
So sad. Even prostitutes were someone's baby once. :(
Originally Posted by Ron_NYC
I searched and searched and didn't see a thread about him in here. I'm astonished! Do we really not have a thread dedicated to the Green River Killer?!
Anyway, if we do you are welcome to merge this. If not, then I guess we can just add the history of this maniac on to this thread.
One of his unidentified victims has finally been identified.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-r...tnik-bones-17/A victim of the Green River Killer was identified nearly four decades after her body was found.
Two sets of human remains were found in Auburn, Washington, along a steep embankment in 1985, according to a news release from the King County Sheriff's Office. At the time, the remains were investigated by the Green River Task Force ? set up to investigate a series of bodies found dumped in the woods along the Green River in Washington state in the early 1980s. The sets were identified as Bones 16 and Bones 17, the sheriff's office said.
In 2002, the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, led officials to the location and said he had placed victims there. He pleaded guilty to the murders of those two victims, as well as 46 other women and girls, in 2003. In 2012, the set of remains known as Bones 16 was identified through DNA testing as Sandra Majors.
It wasn't until this week that investigators were able to conclude that Bones 17 were the remains of Lori Anne Ratzpotnik, a 15-year-old who had run away from home in 1982, the sheriff's office said. Ratzpotnik had lived in Lewis County, about 75 miles away from Auburn.
Investigators worked with Parabon NanoLabs to use forensic genetic genealogy testing on the remains. The lab was able to develop a new DNA profile. Razpotnik's mother provided a saliva sample to detectives, and the University of North Texas carried out DNA comparison testing "which confirmed that they were Lori Anne's remains," the sheriff's office said.
Ridgway's first murder victims were found in 1982 and Ridgway was arrested in 2001. In 2003, Ridgway agreed to plead guilty to all murders that he had committed in King County to avoid the death penalty. Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder in the first degree, according to King's County, and remains imprisoned for life without a chance of release at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
Two victims remain unidentified: though Ridgway admitted to their murders, he could not "supply any significant information that would assist" in their identification, King County said in a page dedicated to the investigation into the Green River Killer.
The county also said there are three women ? Kassee Ann Lee, Kelly Kay McGinnis and Patricia Ann Osborn ? who were last seen in the Seattle area in the early 1980s. They remain missing today and "are listed on the official Green River Homicides list," but Ridgway was not charged in their disappearances.
The county noted that authorities are also looking for three missing women (pictured at the link), one of whom is unidentified, who have been missing since the early 1980s. One of the women was an associate of Tammie Liles, another victim of Ridgway's. Police have asked that anyone with information about these women, or any other crimes linked to the Green River case, contact them.
Lori-Anne
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-r...-gary-ridgway/
Remains of Green River Killer's 49th and last known victim identified as teen Tammie Liles — but other cases still unsolved
The remains were identified as those of 16-year-old Tammie Liles, the King County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. She was from Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, according to local media reports.
Authorities had previously identified another set of partial remains -- known as the Bones 20 case -- as also belonging to Liles. There are no other unidentified remains believed to be connected to Ridgway, known as the Green River killer, according to the sheriff's office.
16 years old. How sad.
Well, at least all of his victims have now been identified. It's a shame that he was able to operate for so long just because society/police didn't consider sex workers as human beings. I'm grateful that these days this doesn't seem to be the case as much, but it does still happen. For instance the Highway of Tears. Serial Killers did have their heyday during the 70s and 80s + though.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
I often think about the victims of the Highway of Tears.
SO unfair and so upsetting for the families.I often think about the victims of the Highway of Tears.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
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