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The last known set of remains linked to the Green River serial killer in Washington state belonged to a teenage girl who had previously been identified as a victim, authorities confirmed on Monday. But officials said there are "other unsolved cases" that may be connected to Gary Ridgway.
The remains were identified as those of 16-year-old Tammie Liles, the King County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. She was from Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, according to local media reports.
Authorities had previously identified another set of partial remains -- known as the Bones 20 case -- as also belonging to Liles. There are no other unidentified remains believed to be connected to Ridgway, known as the Green River killer, according to the sheriff's office.
Ridgway preyed on girls and young women in the Seattle area who were in vulnerable positions, including sex workers and runaways, in the 1980s and 1990s. He was long a suspect in the Green River killings - so called because the first victims were found in the waterway, which runs through suburbs south of Seattle. Detectives were unable to prove his role until 2001, when advances in DNA technology allowed them to link a saliva sample they had obtained from him in 1987 to semen found on several victims.
King County sheriff's spokesperson Eric White told The Seattle Times that officials feel a sense of relief that they've been able to give family members of Ridgway's victims answers about what happened to their loved ones.
"It's an immense feeling of satisfaction that in this case, that started in the early 80s, we are able to identify all of Gary Ridgway's victims," White said Monday. "All 49 of them."
The identification of Liles comes about a month after another of Ridgway's victims was identified -- 15-year-old Lori Anne Ratzpotnik.
Ridgway's first murder victims were found in 1982 and Ridgway was arrested in 2001. In 2003, Ridgway agreed to plead guilty to all murders that he had committed in King County to avoid the death penalty. Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder in the first degree, according to King's County, and remains imprisoned for life without a chance of release at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
Over 10,000 items of evidence collected and logged and stored prepared to go to trial when Ridgway was arrested, according to Dave Reichert with the King County Sheriff's Office.
Reichert said that although the last remains in the medical examiner's office have been identified, there are still more unsolved cases, CBS affiliate KIRO-TV reported.
Mar 22, 2023 · Stephen Smith's death was determined to be highway vehicular manslaughter and no suspects were ever apprehended. His mother has long asked for the unsolved case to be re-examined.
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