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Nov 4, 2013 · King County Sheriff Dave Reichert, left, stares intently at Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway in this image from video taken from an Aug. 20, 2003, interrogation of Ridgway near Seattle.
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Nov 4, 2013 · Nov. 4, 2013. Photos taken over the past three decades tell part of the story of serial killer Gary Ridgway's crimes against Norhtwest women and girls. Gary Ridgway, pictured as a sophomore at ...
- LEVI PULKKINEN
Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway cries during his sentencing in Seattle. as he listens to Robert Rule, the father of victim Linda Rule. Gary Ridgway looks around the courtroom during his sentencing Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003, in Seattle. Ridgway, the Green River Killer who terrorized Seattle in the early 1980s, tearfully apologized for.
Nov 3, 2013 · BY LEVI PULKKINEN. Nov. 3, 2013. Prior to capture, Gary Ridgway killed dozens of women. Here are photos of the 46 identified women and girls the Green River Killer has been convicted of killing ...
- LEVI PULKKINEN
- 1982-86: A Decision About Evidence
- 1987-90: ‘We Should Have Done It’
- A Rejected Request
In July 1982, the body of Ridgway’s first known victim was pulled from the Green River in suburban Seattle, a pair of blue jeans knotted around her neck. Embedded in the denim used to strangle 16-year-old runaway Wendy Lee Coffield were the tiny spheres of spray paint that would take more than two decades to detect. After four more bodies were foun...
By 1987, Ridgway’s penchant for prostitutes and past brushes with known victims and other tips were enough to help investigators geta warrant to searchhis home, vehicles and workplace. In an affidavit, investigators wrote that they wanted to compare trace evidence collected from various dumpsites that might be tied to Ridgway, including green polye...
By the early 1990s, when a new wave of bodies and bones were found, the Green River Task Force had already disbanded. But a smaller group of detectives who feared the killer was still at work quietly kept the probe alive. They focused on a prime suspect: Ridgway. In November 1992, detectives formally requested that the crime lab compare hairs colle...
- Lewis Kamb
Gary Leon Ridgway is famous for admitting to the most serial killings. He is linked to the deaths of 48 young women; most were strangled to death around Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. It took nearly 20 years for Ridgway to be caught and brought to justice. He committed the majority of his murders between 1982 and 1984, during which time the ...
Dec 21, 2023 · July 15, 1982: The body of Ridgway’s first victim is discovered. In July 1982, children found the strangled body of Wendy Caulfield, 16, floating in Seattle’s Green River. Over the following ...
