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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Incarceration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Incarceration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Incarceration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Victims" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Victims"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Victims</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Victims-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Victims subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Victims-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Confirmed_killings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Confirmed_killings"> <div 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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>In music</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_television_(fiction)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_television_(fiction)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>In television (fiction)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_television_(fiction)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri_Ridcuey" title="Geri Ridcuey – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Geri Ridcuey" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C" title="گری ریجوی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گری ریجوی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%8C%EB%A6%AC_%EB%A6%AC%EC%A7%80%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%B4" title="게리 리지웨이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="게리 리지웨이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%92%27%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99" title="גארי רידג'ווי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גארי רידג'ווי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C4%93rijs_Rid%C5%BEvejs" title="Gērijs Ridžvejs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Gērijs Ridžvejs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4" title="ゲイリー・リッジウェイ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ゲイリー・リッジウェイ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%B9,_%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Риджуэй, Гэри – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Риджуэй, Гэри" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway" title="Gary Ridgway – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Gary Ridgway" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" 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<abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="January 14, 1972">1972</span>)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712" /></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Marcia Lorene Brown</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="December 14, 1973">1973</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="May 27, 1981">1981</span>)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712" /></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Judith Lorraine Lynch</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="June 12, 1988">1988</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="September 5, 2002">2002</span>)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1<sup id="cite_ref-tacomanewstribune_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tacomanewstribune-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Conviction" title="Conviction">Convictions</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aggravated_murder" class="mw-redirect" title="Aggravated murder">Aggravated</a> <a href="/wiki/First_degree_murder_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="First degree murder in the United States">first degree murder</a> (49 counts)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence" title="Tampering with evidence">Tampering with evidence</a> (48 counts)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solicitation" title="Solicitation">Solicitation</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal penalty</th><td class="infobox-data">49 <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_the_United_States" title="Life imprisonment in the United States">life sentences</a> without the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Victims</th><td class="infobox-data">49 convicted<br />71–90+ confessed and suspected</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Span of crimes</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1982–1998 confirmed (possibly as recent as 2001)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">States</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Date apprehended</div></th><td class="infobox-data">November 30, 2001</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Imprisoned at</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Penitentiary" title="Washington State Penitentiary">Washington State Penitentiary</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gary Leon Ridgway</b> (born February 18, 1949) is an American <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a> known as <b>the Green River Killer</b>. He was initially convicted of 48 separate <a href="/wiki/Murder_in_United_States_law" title="Murder in United States law">murders</a> committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s. As part of his <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargain</a>, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions to 49, making him the <a href="/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States" title="List of serial killers in the United States">second-most prolific serial killer</a> in United States history according to confirmed murders.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of Ridgway's victims were alleged to be <a href="/wiki/Sex_worker" title="Sex worker">sex workers</a> and other women in vulnerable circumstances, including underage <a href="/wiki/Runaway_(dependent)" title="Runaway (dependent)">runaways</a>. Before his identity was known, the media gave him his nickname after the first five victims were found in the <a href="/wiki/Green_River_(Duwamish_River_tributary)" title="Green River (Duwamish River tributary)">Green River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He <a href="/wiki/Strangling" title="Strangling">strangled</a> his victims, usually by hand but sometimes using <a href="/wiki/Garrote" title="Garrote">ligatures</a>. After strangling them, he would <a href="/wiki/Disposal_of_human_corpses#Criminal_disposal" title="Disposal of human corpses">dump their bodies</a> in forested and overgrown areas in <a href="/wiki/King_County" class="mw-redirect" title="King County">King County</a>, often returning to the bodies to engage in acts of <a href="/wiki/Necrophilia" title="Necrophilia">necrophilia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Prothero_2006_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prothero_2006-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway had been a suspect in the murders since 1982; however, investigators were unable to link him to the murders at that time. Later advances in <a href="/wiki/DNA_profiling" title="DNA profiling">DNA profiling</a> allowed investigators to definitively link Ridgway to the murders, and he was arrested on November 30, 2001, as he was leaving the <a href="/wiki/Kenworth" title="Kenworth">Kenworth</a> truck factory where he worked in <a href="/wiki/Renton,_Washington" title="Renton, Washington">Renton, Washington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Prothero_2006_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prothero_2006-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As part of a plea bargain wherein he agreed to disclose the locations of still-missing women, he was spared the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Washington_(state)" title="Capital punishment in Washington (state)">death penalty</a> and received a sentence of <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_the_United_States" title="Life imprisonment in the United States">life imprisonment</a> without the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Parole_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Parole in the United States">parole</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div> <p>Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons. His home life was somewhat troubled; relatives have described his mother as domineering and have said that, while young, he witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents. His father was a bus driver who would often complain about the presence of <a href="/wiki/Sex_worker" title="Sex worker">sex workers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway and his brothers would face corporal punishment from his mother with belts or sticks for minor offenses.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He would later tell <a href="/wiki/Defense_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense (law)">defense</a> <a href="/wiki/Psychologist" title="Psychologist">psychologists</a> that, as an <a href="/wiki/Adolescent" class="mw-redirect" title="Adolescent">adolescent</a>, he had conflicting feelings of anger and sexual attraction toward his mother, and fantasized about killing her.<sup id="cite_ref-Seattle_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seattle-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-banality_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-banality-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway is <a href="/wiki/Dyslexia" title="Dyslexia">dyslexic</a>, and was held back a year in <a href="/wiki/High_school" class="mw-redirect" title="High school">high school</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he was 16, he stabbed a six-year-old boy, who survived the attack. Ridgway had led the boy into the woods and then stabbed him through the ribs into his <a href="/wiki/Liver" title="Liver">liver</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-about_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway's <a href="/wiki/IQ" class="mw-redirect" title="IQ">IQ</a> was recorded as being in the "low eighties".<sup id="cite_ref-banality_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-banality-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adult_life">Adult life</h2></div> <p>Ridgway graduated from <a href="/wiki/Tyee_Educational_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyee Educational Complex">Tyee High School</a> in 1969 and married his 19-year-old high school girlfriend, Claudia Kraig. He joined the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a><sup id="cite_ref-about_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was sent to <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam</a>, where he served on board a <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_ship" title="Auxiliary ship">supply ship</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and saw combat.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time in the military, Ridgway had frequent <a href="/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sexual intercourse</a> with sex workers and contracted <a href="/wiki/Gonorrhea" title="Gonorrhea">gonorrhea</a>; although angered by this, he continued this activity <a href="/wiki/Unprotected_sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Unprotected sex">without protection</a>. The marriage ended within a year.<sup id="cite_ref-about_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When questioned about Ridgway after his arrest, friends and family described him as friendly but strange. His first two marriages resulted in divorce because of infidelities by both partners. His second wife, Marcia Winslow, claimed that he had placed her in a chokehold.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became religious during his second marriage, proselytizing door-to-door, reading the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> aloud at work and at home, and insisting that his wife follow the strict teachings of their pastor.<sup id="cite_ref-about_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway would also frequently cry after sermons or reading the Bible.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite his beliefs, Ridgway continued to solicit the services of sex workers and wanted his wife to participate in sex in public and inappropriate places, sometimes even in areas where his victims' bodies were later discovered.<sup id="cite_ref-about_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to women in his life, Ridgway had an insatiable sexual appetite. His three ex-wives and several ex-girlfriends reported that he demanded sex from them several times a day.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Often, he would want to have sex in a public area or in the woods.<sup id="cite_ref-about_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway himself admitted to having a fixation with sex workers,<sup id="cite_ref-riverman_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-riverman-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with whom he had a love/hate relationship. He frequently complained about their presence in his neighborhood, but he also took advantage of their services regularly. In a statement read at his plea hearing, Ridgway said he hated prostitutes and did not want to pay them for sex.<sup id="cite_ref-KIRO_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KIRO-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some have speculated that Ridgway was torn between his lusts and his staunch religious beliefs.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With his second wife Marcia, Ridgway had a son.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Murders">Murders</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg/220px-Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg/330px-Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg/440px-Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="712" /></a><figcaption>Ridgway in 1982</figcaption></figure> <p>Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tacoma,_Washington" title="Tacoma, Washington">Tacoma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>. In court statements, Ridgway later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count. A majority of the murders occurred between 1982 and 1984. The victims were believed to be either sex workers or <a href="/wiki/Runaway_(dependent)" title="Runaway (dependent)">runaways</a>, whom he picked up along <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_99" title="Washington State Route 99">Pacific Highway South</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MalengOR_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalengOR-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway sometimes showed the women a picture of his son, to trick them into trusting him. They would engage in sexual activity, and after minutes of intercourse from behind, Ridgway would wrap his forearm around the front of their necks and use the other arm to pull back as tightly as he could, strangling them. He killed most victims in his home, his truck, or a secluded area.<sup id="cite_ref-Prothero_2006_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prothero_2006-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of their bodies were dumped in wooded areas around the <a href="/wiki/Green_River_(Duwamish_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Green River (Duwamish River)">Green River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seattle%E2%80%93Tacoma_International_Airport" title="Seattle–Tacoma International Airport">Seattle–Tacoma International Airport</a>, and other "dump sites" within South King County.<sup id="cite_ref-MalengOR_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalengOR-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were also two confirmed and another two suspected victims found in the <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>, area. The bodies were often left in clusters, sometimes posed, usually nude. He would sometimes return to the victims' bodies and engage in necrophilia with their bodies. Ridgway later explained that he did not find necrophilia more sexually satisfying, but having sex with the deceased reduced his need to obtain a living victim and thus limited his exposure to being caught.<sup id="cite_ref-banality_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-banality-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway occasionally contaminated the dump sites with gum, cigarettes, and written materials belonging to others, and he even transported a few victims' remains across state lines into Oregon, to confuse the police.<sup id="cite_ref-MalengOR_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalengOR-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1982–1984:_First_known_victims"><span id="1982.E2.80.931984:_First_known_victims"></span>1982–1984: First known victims</h3></div> <p>The body of Ridgway's first known victim was found in July 1982. A unique kind of <a href="/wiki/Spray_paint" title="Spray paint">spray paint</a> was found on clothing wrapped around the victim's neck, but the paint was not tested for 20 years. If it had been tested at the time, it would have been easier to link the murder to Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After four more victims were found, the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Sheriff%27s_Office" title="King County Sheriff's Office">King County Sheriff's Office</a> formed the Green River Task Force to investigate the murders.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewsTribune_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewsTribune-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Task force members included <a href="/wiki/Robert_Keppel" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Keppel">Robert Keppel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dave_Reichert" title="Dave Reichert">Dave Reichert</a>, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer <a href="/wiki/Ted_Bundy" title="Ted Bundy">Ted Bundy</a> in 1984. Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer. He suggested that the killer was revisiting the dump sites to have sex with his victims, which turned out to be true, and if police found a fresh grave, they should stake it out and wait for him to come back.<sup id="cite_ref-NewsTribune_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewsTribune-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also contributing to the investigation was <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_Agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Agent">Special Agent</a> <a href="/wiki/John_E._Douglas" title="John E. Douglas">John E. Douglas</a>, who developed a profile of the suspect.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a suspect in the Green River killings in 1983,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when 18-year-old Marie Malvar disappeared. Her boyfriend and her pimp later found a truck in front of Ridgway's house which they thought was the same one she had boarded the day she went missing. Ridgway was interviewed in conjunction with that event, and police received several other tips that mentioned him.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1984, he passed a <a href="/wiki/Polygraph_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Polygraph test">polygraph test</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-banality_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-banality-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1985–2001:_Marriage_to_Judith_Mawson,_arrest_for_murder"><span id="1985.E2.80.932001:_Marriage_to_Judith_Mawson.2C_arrest_for_murder"></span>1985–2001: Marriage to Judith Mawson, arrest for murder</h3></div> <p>Around 1985, Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his third wife in 1988. Mawson claimed in a 2010 television interview that when she moved into his house while they were dating, there was no carpet. Detectives later told her he had probably wrapped a body in the carpet.<sup id="cite_ref-IDDiscovery_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IDDiscovery-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same interview, she described how he would leave for work early in the morning some days, ostensibly for the overtime pay. Mawson speculated that he must have committed some of the murders while supposedly working these early morning shifts. She claimed that she had not suspected Ridgway's crimes before she was contacted by authorities in 1987, and had not even heard of the Green River Killer before that time because she did not watch the news.<sup id="cite_ref-IDDiscovery_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IDDiscovery-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway said that while he was in a relationship with Mawson, his kill rate went down and that he truly loved her.<sup id="cite_ref-IDDiscovery_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IDDiscovery-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of his 49 known victims, only three were killed after he married Mawson. Mawson told a local television reporter, "I feel I have saved lives ... by being his wife and making him happy."<sup id="cite_ref-KIRO_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KIRO-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 1987, police took hair and saliva samples from Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The samples collected were later subjected to <a href="/wiki/DNA_profiling" title="DNA profiling">DNA profiling</a>, providing the evidence for his arrest warrant.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 30, 2001, he was at the <a href="/wiki/Kenworth" title="Kenworth">Kenworth</a> truck factory, where he worked as a spray painter, when police arrived to arrest him. </p><p>Ridgway had been arrested on suspicion of murdering four women nearly 20 years earlier after initially being identified as a potential suspect. But it was not until 2001 that <a href="/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> evidence conclusively linked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the police. </p><p>The four victims named in the original indictment were Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. Three more victims—Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Debra Estes—were added to the indictment after a forensic scientist identified microscopic spray paint spheres as a specific brand and composition of paint used at the Kenworth factory during the time when these victims were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-IDDiscovery_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IDDiscovery-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plea_bargain,_confessions,_sentencing"><span id="Plea_bargain.2C_confessions.2C_sentencing"></span>Plea bargain, confessions, sentencing</h2></div> <p>Early in August 2003, Seattle television news reported that Ridgway had been moved from a maximum security cell at King County Jail to an Airway Heights Minimum-Medium Security Level Tank. Other news reports stated that his lawyers, led by Anthony Savage, were closing a <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargain</a> that would spare him the <a href="/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">death penalty</a> in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a <a href="/wiki/Guilty_plea" class="mw-redirect" title="Guilty plea">guilty plea</a> to 48 charges of <a href="/wiki/First_degree_murder" class="mw-redirect" title="First degree murder">aggravated first degree murder</a> as part of a plea bargain that would spare him execution in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details. In his statement accompanying his guilty plea, Ridgway explained that he had killed all of his victims inside King County, Washington, and that he had transported and dumped the remains of the two women near Portland to confuse the police.<sup id="cite_ref-MalengOR_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalengOR-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Deputy prosecutor Jeffrey Baird noted in court that the deal contained "the names of 41 victims who would not be the subject of <i>State v. Ridgway</i> if it were not for the plea agreement". <a href="/wiki/King_County_Prosecuting_Attorney" title="King County Prosecuting Attorney">King County Prosecuting Attorney</a> <a href="/wiki/Norm_Maleng" title="Norm Maleng">Norm Maleng</a> explained his decision to make the deal: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We could have gone forward with seven counts, but that is all we could have ever hoped to solve. At the end of that trial, whatever the outcome, there would have been lingering doubts about the rest of these crimes. This agreement was the avenue to the truth. And in the end, the search for the truth is still why we have a criminal justice system ... Gary Ridgway does not deserve our mercy. He does not deserve to live. The mercy provided by today's resolution is directed not at Ridgway, but toward the families who have suffered so much ...<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> On December 18, 2003, <a href="/wiki/King_County_Superior_Court" title="King County Superior Court">King County Superior Court</a> Judge <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Jones" title="Richard A. Jones">Richard A. Jones</a> sentenced Ridgway to 48 <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">life sentences</a> without the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a> to be served consecutively.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences. Later he was given another life sentence after the remains of his 49th victim were found.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway led prosecutors to three bodies in 2003. On August 16 of that year, the remains of a 16-year-old girl found near <a href="/wiki/Enumclaw,_Washington" title="Enumclaw, Washington">Enumclaw, Washington</a>, 40 feet from <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_410" title="Washington State Route 410">State Route 410</a>, were pronounced as belonging to Pammy Annette Avent, who had been believed to be a victim of the Green River Killer. The remains of Marie Malvar and April Buttram were found in September 2003. </p><p>On November 23, 2005, the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of one of the women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors. The skull of another victim, Tracy Winston, who was 19 when she disappeared from <a href="/wiki/Northgate_Mall_(Seattle)" title="Northgate Mall (Seattle)">Northgate Mall</a> on September 12, 1983, was found on November 20, 2005, by a man hiking in a wooded area near Highway 18 near <a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah</a>, southeast of Seattle. This was the find that led to Ridgway's 49th life sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, remains discovered in 1985 and known as Bones 17 were identified as belonging to 15-year-old Lori Anne Razpotnik, who was last seen by her family in <a href="/wiki/Lewis_County,_Washington" title="Lewis County, Washington">Lewis County, Washington</a>, in November 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ridgway confessed to more confirmed murders than any other American serial killer. Over a period of five months of police and prosecutor interviews, he confessed to 48 murders—42 of which were on the police's list of probable Green River Killer victims.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 9, 2004, county prosecutors began to release the videotaped records of Ridgway's confession. In one taped interview, he initially told investigators that he was responsible for the deaths of 65 women.<sup id="cite_ref-Cold_Case_Files_56_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cold_Case_Files_56-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In another taped interview on December 31, 2003, Ridgway claimed to have murdered 71 victims and confessed to having had sex with them before killing them, a detail which he did not reveal until after his sentencing.<sup id="cite_ref-Cold_Case_Files_56_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cold_Case_Files_56-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his confession, he acknowledged that he targeted prostitutes because they were "easy to pick up" and that he "hated most of them."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He confessed that he had sex with his victims' bodies after he murdered them, but claimed he began burying the later victims so that he could resist the urge to commit necrophilia.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incarceration">Incarceration</h2></div> <p>Ridgway was placed in solitary confinement at <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Penitentiary" title="Washington State Penitentiary">Washington State Penitentiary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Walla_Walla,_Washington" title="Walla Walla, Washington">Walla Walla</a> in January 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Florence_High" title="United States Penitentiary, Florence High">USP Florence High</a>, a high-security federal prison east of <a href="/wiki/Ca%C3%B1on_City,_Colorado" title="Cañon City, Colorado">Cañon City, Colorado</a>. In September 2015, after a public outcry and discussions with <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Washington">Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Jay_Inslee" title="Jay Inslee">Jay Inslee</a>, Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner announced that Ridgway would be transferred back to Washington to be "easily accessible" for open murder investigations.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway was returned by chartered plane to Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla from USP Florence High, on October 24, 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2024, Ridgway was briefly transferred from the Washington State Penitentiary to the <a href="/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington">King County</a> jail for a few days before being transferred back to WSP. Authorities refused to give any explanation for the transfer.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The transport order was unsealed in March, 2025, revealing that Ridgway was temporarily transferred to help locate more victim remains.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victims"><span class="anchor" id="Green_River_victims"></span>Victims</h2></div> <p>Before Ridgway's confession, authorities had attributed 49 murders to the Green River Killer.<sup id="cite_ref-Task_Force_List_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Task_Force_List-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway confessed to murdering at least 71 victims.<sup id="cite_ref-Cold_Case_Files_56_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cold_Case_Files_56-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Confirmed_killings">Confirmed killings</h3></div> <p>At the time of Ridgway's December 18, 2003, sentencing, authorities had been able to find at least 48 sets of remains, including victims not originally attributed to the Green River Killer. Ridgway was sentenced for the deaths of each of these 48 victims,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a plea agreement that he would "plead guilty to any and all future cases (in King County) where his confession could be corroborated by reliable evidence."<sup id="cite_ref-49th_victim_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49th_victim-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>#</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Age</th> <th>Disappeared</th> <th>Body found </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>Wendy Lee Coffield</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-07-08 !">July 8, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-07-15 !">July 15, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>Gisele Ann Lovvorn</td> <td>17</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-07-17 !">July 17, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-09-25 !">September 25, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>Debra Lynn Bonner</td> <td>23</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-07-25 !">July 25, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-12 !">August 12, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td>Marcia Fay Chapman</td> <td>31</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-01 !">August 1, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-15 !">August 15, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>Cynthia Jean Hinds</td> <td>17</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-11 !">August 11, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-15 !">August 15, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td>Opal Charmaine Mills</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-12 !">August 12, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-15 !">August 15, 1982</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td>Terry Rene Milligan</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-29 !">August 29, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-04-01 !">April 1, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td>Mary Bridget Meehan</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-09-15 !">September 15, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-11-13 !">November 13, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td>Debra Lorraine Estes</td> <td>15</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-09-20 !">September 20, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1988-05-30 !">May 30, 1988</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td>Linda Jane Rule</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-09-26 !">September 26, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-01-31 !">January 31, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td>Denise Darcel Bush</td> <td>23</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-10-08 !">October 8, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-06-12 !">June 12, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td>Shawnda Leea Summers</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-10-09 !">October 9, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-08-11 !">August 11, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td>Shirley Marie Sherrill</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-10-20 !">October 20–22, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-06-00 !">June 14, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td>Lori Anne Razpotnik</td> <td>15</td> <td><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> <span data-sort-value="1982-11-20 !">November 26, 1982</span><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-01-12 !">December 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td>Rebecca "Becky" Marrero</td> <td>20</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-12-03 !">December 3, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="2010-12-21 !">December 21, 2010</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td>Colleen Renee Brockman</td> <td>15</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-12-24 !">December 24, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-05-26 !">May 26, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td>Sandra Denise Major</td> <td>20</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-12-24 !">December 24, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-12-30 !">December 30, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td>Wendy Marie Stephens</td> <td>14</td> <td>March 1983<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-21 !">March 21, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td>Alma Ann Smith</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-03-03 !">March 3, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-04-02 !">April 2, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td>Delores LaVerne Williams</td> <td>17</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-03-08 !">March 8–14, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-31 !">March 31, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td>Gail Lynn Mathews</td> <td>23</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-04-10 !">April 10, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-09-18 !">September 18, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td>Andrea Marion Childers</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-04-14 !">April 14, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1989-10-11 !">October 11, 1989</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td>Sandra Kay Gabbert</td> <td>17</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-04-17 !">April 17, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-04-01 !">April 1, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td>Kimi-Kai Ryks Pitsor</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-04-17 !">April 17, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-12-15 !">December 15, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td>Mary-Jane Malvar</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-04-30 !">April 30, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="2003-09-26 !">September 26, 2003</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td>Carol Ann Christensen</td> <td>21</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-03 !">May 3, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-08 !">May 8, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td>Martina Theresa Authorlee</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-22 !">May 22, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-11-14 !">November 14, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>28</td> <td>Cheryl Lee Wims</td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-23 !">May 23, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-22 !">March 22, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td>Yvonne Antosh</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-31 !">May 31, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-15 !">October 15, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>30</td> <td>Carrie Ann Rois</td> <td>15</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-05-31 !">May 31 – June 13, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-03-10 !">March 10, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>31</td> <td>Constance Elizabeth Naon</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-06-08 !">June 8, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-27 !">October 27, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td>Tammie Charlene Liles</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-06-09 !">June 9, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-04-23 !">April 23, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>33</td> <td>Kelly Marie Ware</td> <td>22</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-07-18 !">July 18, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-29 !">October 29, 1983</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>34</td> <td>Tina Marie Thompson</td> <td>21</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-07-25 !">July 25, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-04-20 !">April 20, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>35</td> <td>April Dawn Buttram</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-08-18 !">August 18, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="2003-08-30 !">August 30, 2003</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>36</td> <td>Debbie May Abernathy</td> <td>26</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-09-05 !">September 5, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-31 !">March 31, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>37</td> <td>Tracy Ann Winston</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-09-12 !">September 12, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1986-03-27 !">March 27, 1986</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>38</td> <td>Maureen Sue Feeney</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-09-28 !">September 28, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1986-05-2 !">May 2, 1986</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>39</td> <td>Mary Sue Bello</td> <td>25</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-11 !">October 11, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-10-12 !">October 12, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>40</td> <td>Pammy Annette Avent</td> <td>15</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-26 !">October 26, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="2003-08-16 !">August 16, 2003</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>41</td> <td>Delise Louise Plager</td> <td>22</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-30 !">October 30, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-02-14 !">February 14, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>42</td> <td>Kimberly Nelson</td> <td>21</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-11-01 !">November 1, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1986-06-14 !">June 14, 1986</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>43</td> <td>Lisa Lorraine Yates</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-12-23 !">December 23, 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-13 !">March 13, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>44</td> <td>Mary Exzetta West</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-02-06 !">February 6, 1984</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-09-08 !">September 8, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>45</td> <td>Cindy Anne Smith</td> <td>17</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-03-21 !">March 21, 1984</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1987-06-27 !">June 27, 1987</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>46</td> <td>Patricia Michelle Barczak</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1986-10-17 !">October 17, 1986</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1993-02-00 !">February 3, 1993</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>47</td> <td>Roberta Joseph Hayes</td> <td>21</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1987-02-07 !">February 7, 1987</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1991-09-11 !">September 11, 1991</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>48</td> <td>Marta Reeves</td> <td>36</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1990-03-05 !">March 5, 1990</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1990-09-20 !">September 20, 1990</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>49</td> <td>Patricia Ann Yellowrobe</td> <td>38</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1998-08-00 !">January 1998</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1998-08-06 !">August 6, 1998</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jane_Doe_B-17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Jane_Doe_B-17.jpg/200px-Jane_Doe_B-17.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Jane_Doe_B-17.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Forensic_facial_reconstruction" title="Forensic facial reconstruction">Facial approximation</a> of Jane Doe B-17, who was identified as Razpotnik after DNA testing in 2023</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Before Ridgway's confession, authorities had not attributed to the Green River Killer the deaths of victims Rule, Barczak, Hayes, Reeves, Yellowrobe, and Jane Doe B-20.<sup id="cite_ref-Task_Force_List_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Task_Force_List-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On December 21, 2010, hikers near the West Valley Highway in <a href="/wiki/Auburn,_Washington" title="Auburn, Washington">Auburn, Washington</a>, found a skull in the vicinity of where Marie Malvar's remains had been found in 2003. The skull was identified as belonging to Marrero, who was last seen leaving the Western Six Motel at South 168th Street and Pacific Highway South on December 3, 1982. The King County Prosecutor confirmed that Ridgway would be formally charged with her murder on February 11, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-49th_victim_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49th_victim-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 18, 2011, he entered a guilty plea in the murder of Rebecca Marrero, adding a 49th life sentence to his existing 48. Ridgway confessed to murdering Marrero in his original plea bargain, but due to insufficient evidence, the charges could not be filed. Therefore, there is no change in his current incarceration status.<sup id="cite_ref-Green2011_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Green2011-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The remains of Winston were found, without a skull, in <a href="/wiki/Kent,_Washington" title="Kent, Washington">Kent</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cottonwood_Grove_Park" title="Cottonwood Grove Park">Cottonwood Grove Park</a> in March 1986. Winston's skull was found in November, 2005 near <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Mountain_(Washington)" title="Tiger Mountain (Washington)">Tiger Mountain</a>, miles away from the discovery site of the rest of her body. Police assume someone carried it to the location.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Major was not identified until June 2012. A family member asked the King County Sheriff to investigate after seeing a TV movie about Ridgway. DNA confirmed Major's identity.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Wendy Stephens, previously known as Jane Doe B-10, was previously unidentified.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ridgway claimed that she was a white female in her early 20s and possibly had brown hair. Examination of the remains suggested that she was actually between 12 and 18, most likely around 15.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was later confirmed to be 14. Analysis of the victim's skeleton indicated she was probably left-handed, and she had at one point in her life had skull fracture to the left temple that later healed.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jane Doe B-17 was discovered on January 2, 1986; remains that had been found in another area February 18, 1984, were later matched to this victim. In 2003, Ridgway claimed responsibility for her death.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2023, DNA testing at <a href="/wiki/Parabon_NanoLabs" title="Parabon NanoLabs">Parabon NanoLabs</a> identified the victim as Lori Anne Razpotnik, who had run away from home in 1982 at age 15.<sup id="cite_ref-Girgis_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Girgis-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jane Doe B-20 was discovered in August 2003. Because the remains were partial, her face could not be reconstructed and her race could not be determined, but she was estimated to have been between 13 and 24 at the time of her death. She was estimated to have been murdered between 1970 and 1993, but she was believed to have been murdered during the first decade of Ridgway's murder spree.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2024, DNA testing identified the victim as Liles. A separate set of remains from Liles had been found in Oregon in 1985 and identified in 1988 from dental records.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Task_force_victims_list">Task force victims list</h3></div> <p>Ridgway is suspected of—but not charged with—murdering the remaining six victims of the original list attributed to the Green River Killer.<sup id="cite_ref-Task_Force_List_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Task_Force_List-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Age</th> <th>Disappeared</th> <th>Body found </th></tr> <tr> <td>Amina Agisheff</td> <td>35</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-07-07 !">July 7, 1982</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1984-04-18 !">April 18, 1984</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kasee Ann Lee</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1982-08-28 !">August 28, 1982</span><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kelly Kay McGinniss<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>18</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-06-28 !">June 28, 1983</span></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Angela Marie Girdner</td> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-07-00 !">July 1983</span></td> <td><span data-sort-value="1985-04-22 !">April 22, 1985</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Patricia Osborn</td> <td>19</td> <td><span data-sort-value="1983-10-20 !">October 20, 1983</span><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <ul><li>Ridgway denied killing Agisheff who does not fit the <a href="/wiki/Victimology" title="Victimology">profile</a> of any of the victims of the Green River Killer considering her age, and she was not a sex worker or a teenage runaway.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Although he has never been charged with her murder, during police interrogations in 2003, Ridgway did confess to killing Lee. He stated that he strangled Lee in 1982 and left her body near a drive-in theatre off of the <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_99" title="Washington State Route 99">Sea-Tac Strip</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Law enforcement officials have been unable to locate Lee's remains at the dumpsite that Ridgway indicated.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Evidence exists to suggest that Ridgway murdered McGinniss. Shortly before her disappearance, McGinniss was questioned by a Port of Seattle police officer while "dating" Ridgway near the <a href="/wiki/SeaTac,_Washington" title="SeaTac, Washington">SeaTac</a> Strip. Furthermore, during the summer of 2003, Ridgway led authorities to the bodies of several of his victims. One of those bodies, later identified as that of April Buttram, was initially identified by Ridgway as being that of McGinniss. According to Ridgway, he often confused McGinniss with Buttram because of their similar physiques.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ridgway is a suspect in the death of Girdner whose remains were discovered within a mile of the bodies of known victims Sherrill, Bush, and Liles. Girdner remained unidentified until October 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Suspected">Suspected</h3></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Age</th> <th>Disappeared</th> <th>Body found </th></tr> <tr> <td>Unidentified black female</td> <td>Unknown</td> <td>December 1980</td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kristi Lynn Vorak</td> <td>13</td> <td>October 31, 1982<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Patricia Ann Leblanc</td> <td>15</td> <td>August 12, 1983<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Rose Marie Kurran<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>16</td> <td>August 26, 1987</td> <td>August 31, 1987 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cora Christmas McGuirk</td> <td>22</td> <td>July 12, 1991<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Undiscovered </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <ul><li>An unidentified black female, possibly bearing the first name Michelle, was a possible victim of Ridgway. She has never been located or identified.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>McGuirk was the mother of <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> player <a href="/wiki/Martell_Webster" title="Martell Webster">Martell Webster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was last seen leaving her three children in the company of her aunt. Her vehicle was later found near Aurora Avenue north. Although her body was never found, Ridgway is thought to be responsible for killing her.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ridgway was long suspected for the 1987 murder of Kurran, a 16-year-old addict and prostitute,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was ruled out as a suspect.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_artwork">In artwork</h3></div> <ul><li>In 2004, <a href="/wiki/Phil_Hansen_(artist)" title="Phil Hansen (artist)">Phil Hansen</a> created and displayed artwork depicting Gary Ridgway's face, composed of 11,792 portraits of the 48 victims.<sup id="cite_ref-philhansenart_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philhansenart-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_documentaries_and_films_(fiction_and_non-fiction)"><span id="In_documentaries_and_films_.28fiction_and_non-fiction.29"></span>In documentaries and films (fiction and non-fiction)</h3></div> <ul><li>The 1984 documentary <i>Murder, No Apparent Motive</i>, about <a href="/wiki/Serial_killers" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial killers">serial killers</a> and <a href="/wiki/FBI_method_of_profiling" title="FBI method of profiling">FBI Profilers</a>, mentioned that the (then-ongoing) Green River Killer's murders were one of the latest examples of serial murders that go on in America without any apparent motives.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries" title="Unsolved Mysteries">Unsolved Mysteries</a></i> Season 8, Episode 15 (1996), a Green River Killer segment focused on long-time Green River Killer suspect William Stevens.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The episode features interviews with Stevens' living family members. Stevens died of <a href="/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> in 1991 at the age of 40.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The ninth episode of the 2010 American documentary show <i><a href="/wiki/Who_the_(Bleep)_Did_I_Marry%3F" title="Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?">Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?</a></i> features his story and his third wife's side of it.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Riverman" title="The Riverman">The Riverman</a></i> is based on the true story of <a href="/wiki/Ted_Bundy" title="Ted Bundy">Ted Bundy</a> assisting investigators trying to identify and catch the Green River Killer.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is based on the book of the same name by <a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Keppel" title="Robert D. Keppel">Robert D. Keppel</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Direct-to-DVD" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct-to-DVD">direct-to-DVD</a> movie <i><a href="/wiki/Green_River_Killer_(film)" title="Green River Killer (film)">Green River Killer</a></i> was released in 2005.</li> <li>A 2006 episode of the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Crimes_That_Shook_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="Crimes That Shook the World">Crimes That Shook the World</a></i> focuses on Gary Ridgway (played by Frank Violi).</li> <li>In 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_Movie_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime Movie Network">Lifetime Movie Network</a> aired <i><a href="/wiki/The_Capture_of_the_Green_River_Killer" title="The Capture of the Green River Killer">The Capture of the Green River Killer</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/TV_movie" class="mw-redirect" title="TV movie">TV movie</a> loosely based on his crimes. <a href="/wiki/John_Pielmeier" title="John Pielmeier">John Pielmeier</a> portrays Ridgway. In 2014, they aired a documentary called <i>My Uncle is the Green River Killer</i> which featured Ridgway family members.</li> <li>The Court TV (now <a href="/wiki/TruTV" title="TruTV">TruTV</a>) television series <i>Mugshots</i> released an episode on Ridgway titled <i>Gary Ridgway The Green River Killer</i>, aired in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2005, <a href="/wiki/A%26E_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="A&E (TV channel)">A&E</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Case_Files" title="Cold Case Files">Cold Case Files</a></i> aired an episode called "Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer". (Season 5, Episode 1)</li> <li>On June 2, 2017, <a href="/wiki/HLN_(TV_network)" title="HLN (TV network)">HLN (Headline News)</a> premiered the true crime series <a href="/wiki/HLN_(TV_network)#Programming" title="HLN (TV network)"><i>Beyond Reasonable Doubt</i></a> with the episode <i>The Green River Killer</i>. The one-hour episode reports on the advanced <a href="/wiki/Trace_evidence" title="Trace evidence">trace evidence</a> that directly link tiny paint particles from the victims' clothing to Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Bundy and The Green River Killer</i> a 2019 <a href="/wiki/Horror_film" title="Horror film">horror film</a> by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jones_(filmmaker)" title="Andrew Jones (filmmaker)">Andrew Jones</a>, starring Jared Nelson as Gary Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On February 17, 2020, <a href="/wiki/Investigation_Discovery" title="Investigation Discovery">Investigation Discovery</a> premiered a two-hour special titled <i>The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster</i> featuring Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Catching Killers</i>, which included an episode about the Green River Case was released on <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> on November 4, 2021. It revolves around the decade-long hunt for the murderer of several women around the Green River area – which was finally solved after a huge breakthrough in crime scene science.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_print_(non-fiction)"><span id="In_print_.28non-fiction.29"></span>In print (non-fiction)</h3></div> <ul><li><i>Search for the Green River Killer</i> by Carlton Smith and Tom Guillen (March 5, 1991)</li> <li><i>The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Keppel" title="Robert D. Keppel">Robert D. Keppel</a> (November 27, 1995)</li> <li><i>The Green River Killer</i> by the <i>King County Journal</i> Staff (November 23, 2003)</li> <li><i>Chasing the Devil</i> by Sheriff <a href="/wiki/David_Reichert" class="mw-redirect" title="David Reichert">David Reichert</a> (July 28, 2004)</li> <li><i>Green River, Running Red</i> by true-crime author and former police officer <a href="/wiki/Ann_Rule" title="Ann Rule">Ann Rule</a> (September 27, 2005)</li> <li><i>Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through Green River Murders</i> by Tomas Guillen (January 14, 2006)</li> <li><i>Green River Serial Killer: Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife</i> by Pennie Morehead, telling the story of his third wife and her struggles with the truth (April 1, 2007)</li> <li><i>Case of the Green River Killer</i> by Diane Yancey (April 27, 2007)</li> <li><i>Defending Gary: Unraveling the Mind of the Green River Killer</i> by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Prothero" title="Mark Prothero">Mark Prothero</a> with help from Carlton Smith (May 25, 2007)</li> <li><i>Green River Killer: A True Detective Story</i>, a 2011 graphic novel by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Jensen" title="Jeff Jensen">Jeff Jensen</a> and Jonathan Case. Jensen's father was Tom Jensen, one of the detectives who worked on the case for 20 years.</li> <li><i>The Thirty-Ninth Victim</i> by Arleen Williams, sister of Maureen Sue Feeney (April 6, 2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_print_(fiction)"><span id="In_print_.28fiction.29"></span>In print (fiction)</h3></div> <ul><li>The Green River murders are discussed in the <a href="/wiki/Jodi_Picoult" title="Jodi Picoult">Jodi Picoult</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/House_Rules_(novel)" title="House Rules (novel)">House Rules</a></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0743296441" title="Special:BookSources/978-0743296441">978-0743296441</a>).</li> <li>The novel <i>River</i> by <a href="/wiki/Roderick_Thorp" title="Roderick Thorp">Roderick Thorp</a> is subtitled "A Novel of the Green River Killings" (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/044990704X" title="Special:BookSources/044990704X">044990704X</a>).</li> <li>Discussed in Stephenie Meyer's third <i>Twilight</i> book, <i><a href="/wiki/Eclipse_(Meyer_novel)" title="Eclipse (Meyer novel)">Eclipse</a></i>, when there are murders in Seattle (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0316027656" title="Special:BookSources/978-0316027656">978-0316027656</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_music">In music</h3></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Grunge" title="Grunge">grunge</a> band <a href="/wiki/Green_River_(band)" title="Green River (band)">Green River</a> was named in reference to the murders. As well, the title track of their 1985 debut EP <i><a href="/wiki/Come_On_Down_(EP)" title="Come On Down (EP)">Come On Down</a></i> discusses the murders from Ridgway's point of view.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1998 song "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Hanna" title="Kathleen Hanna">Kathleen Hanna</a> references the murders through the broader lens of police brutality.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 2002 song "Deep Red Bells" by <a href="/wiki/Neko_Case" title="Neko Case">Neko Case</a> was inspired by her own life growing up as a teenager near the metropolis during the time of the murders.<sup id="cite_ref-nekocaseinterview_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nekocaseinterview-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Industrial_music" title="Industrial music">industrial</a> / <a href="/wiki/Power_electronics_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power electronics (music)">power electronics</a> project called Deathpile made an album about the Green River Killer in 2003 titled "G.R.".<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 2001 album, <i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_Brutality" title="Master of Brutality">Master of Brutality</a></i> by Japanese <a href="/wiki/Doom_metal" title="Doom metal">doom metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Misery" title="Church of Misery">Church of Misery</a> also featured a song, "Green River" inspired by the murders.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_television_(fiction)"><span id="In_television_.28fiction.29"></span>In television (fiction)</h3></div> <ul><li>In a May 2013 interview,<sup id="cite_ref-interview_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interview-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Veena_Sud" title="Veena Sud">Veena Sud</a> stated her inspiration for <a href="/wiki/The_Killing_season_3#Production_and_development" title="The Killing season 3"><i>The Killing</i></a> came from <i>Streetwise</i>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Mark" title="Mary Ellen Mark">Mary Ellen Mark</a>'s book of photographs about teenaged runaways in Seattle<sup id="cite_ref-Streetwise_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Streetwise-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was made into an eponymous <a href="/wiki/Streetwise_(1984_film)" title="Streetwise (1984 film)">1984 documentary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Streetwise_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Streetwise-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the street kids Mark documented in that and later books, 21-year-old Roberta Joseph Hayes, fell victim to the Green River Killer (Ridgway). Sud said she was "very fascinated" with Ridgway.<sup id="cite_ref-49th_victim_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49th_victim-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States" title="List of serial killers in the United States">List of serial killers in the United States</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In addition to his confirmed murders, Ridgway has been linked to at least 22 other murders. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Little" title="Samuel Little">Samuel Little</a> has the highest number of confirmed murders (60), and claimed to have murdered more than 90 people. Some people, most notably <a href="/wiki/Ted_Bundy" title="Ted Bundy">Ted Bundy</a>, are widely thought to have murdered more people than they were convicted of; Bundy was convicted of 30 murders but some believe he may have murdered more than a hundred people.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephens was reported missing in 1983. Investigators believe her remains had lain undiscovered for one year or more prior to their March 1984 discovery.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Various spellings exist of McGinniss's name, such as "Keli/Kelli" and "McGinness".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kurran's name is alternatively spelled as "Curran" in the media.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-tacomanewstribune-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-tacomanewstribune_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHucks2003" class="citation news cs1">Hucks, Karen (December 23, 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/special-reports/article25855129.html">"Gary Ridgway's son holds memories of regular soccer dad"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_News_Tribune" title="The News Tribune">The News Tribune</a></i>. 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Keppel">Keppel, Robert</a>. <i>The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer</i>. 2004, paperback (rev. ed.). 624 pages, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-6395-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-6395-1">0-7434-6395-1</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55110199">55110199</a>. Updated after the arrest and confession of Gary Ridgway.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Rule" title="Ann Rule">Rule, Ann</a>. <i>Green River, Running Red</i>. Pocket, 2005, paperback. 704 pages, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-6050-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-6050-2">0-7434-6050-2</a>.</li> <li>Guillen, Tomas. <i>Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders</i>. 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