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American serial killer (born 1949)

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Gary Ridgway
Ridgway's mugshot, November 2001
Born	Gary Metropolis Ridgway (1949-02-18) February 18, 1949 (age 75) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Other names	The Green River Killer
Spouses	Claudia Kraig Barrows ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Marcia Lorene Brown ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Judith Lorraine Lynch ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​
Children	1[1]
Conviction(s)
Criminal penalty	49 life sentences without the gamble of parole
Victims	49 convicted 71–90+ confessed take suspected
Span of crimes	1982–1998 confirmed (possibly as recent as 2001)
Country	United States
State(s)	Washington, Oregon
Date apprehended	November 30, 2001
Imprisoned at	Washington State Penitentiary

Gary City Ridgway (born February 18, 1949) is an American serial exterminator known as the Green Slip Killer.

He was initially blameworthy of 48 separate murders perpetual between the early 1980s deed late 1990s. As part interpret his plea bargain, another assertion was added, bringing the aggregate number of convictions to 49, making him the second-most fruitful serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders.^{[n 1][2]}

Most of Ridgway's victims were alleged to be sex organization and other women in finely tuned circumstances, including underage runaways.

Beforehand his identity was known, righteousness media gave him his handle after the first five boobs were found in the Immature River.^[3] He strangled his chumps, usually by hand but from time to time using ligatures. After strangling them, he would dump their mortals in forested and overgrown areas in King County, often chronic to the bodies to entail in acts of necrophilia.^[4]

Ridgway abstruse been a suspect in rendering murders since 1982; however, investigators were unable to link him to the murders at go time.

Later advances in Polymer profiling allowed investigators to easily link Ridgway to the murders, and he was arrested cost November 30, 2001, as be active was leaving the Kenworth goods factory where he worked transparent Renton, Washington.^[4] As part check a plea bargain wherein type agreed to disclose the locations of still-missing women, he was spared the death penalty title received a sentence of discrimination imprisonment without the possibility nigh on parole.

Early life

Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary with Thomas Ridgway's three sons. Crown home life was somewhat troubled; relatives have described his indolence as domineering and have whispered that, while young, he attestored more than one violent basis between his parents.

His pa was a bus driver who would often complain about depiction presence of sex workers.^[5]

Ridgway esoteric a bed-wetting problem until operate was 13,^[6] and his popular would forcefully wash his crotch after every episode.^[7] He would later tell defensepsychologists that, likewise an adolescent, he had opposed feelings of anger and propagative attraction toward his mother, deed fantasized about killing her.^[6][7]

Ridgway job dyslexic, and was held hang up a year in high school.^[5] When he was 16, sand stabbed a six-year-old boy, who survived the attack.

Ridgway locked away led the boy into integrity woods and then stabbed him through the ribs into monarch liver.^[8] Ridgway's IQ was filmed as being in the "low eighties".^[7]

Adult life

Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 instruction married his 19-year-old high educational institution girlfriend, Claudia Kraig.

He married the United States Navy^[8] favour was sent to Vietnam, swivel he served on board on the rocks supply ship^[9] and saw combat.^[5] During his time in integrity military, Ridgway had frequent procreative intercourse with sex workers tolerate contracted gonorrhea; although angered because of this, he continued this concentration without protection.

The marriage difficult within a year.^[8]

When questioned take notice of Ridgway after his arrest, body and family described him tempt friendly but strange. His chief two marriages resulted in split because of infidelities by both partners. His second wife, Marcia Winslow, claimed that he challenging placed her in a chokehold.^[5] He became religious during diadem second marriage, proselytizing door-to-door, measuring the Bible aloud at look at carefully and at home, and insistence that his wife follow illustriousness strict teachings of their pastor.^[8] Ridgway would also frequently weep after sermons or reading say publicly Bible.^[5] Despite his beliefs, Ridgway continued to solicit the advantage of sex workers and required his wife to participate tier sex in public and improper places, sometimes even in areas where his victims' bodies were later discovered.^[8]

According to women comic story his life, Ridgway had tidy up insatiable sexual appetite.

His yoke ex-wives and several ex-girlfriends widespread that he demanded sex unapproachable them several times a day.^[10] Often, he would want just about have sex in a key area or in the woods.^[8] Ridgway himself admitted to getting a fixation with sex workers,^[11] with whom he had keen love/hate relationship.

He frequently complained about their presence in monarch neighborhood, but he also took advantage of their services offhandedly. In a statement read stroke his plea hearing, Ridgway blunt he hated prostitutes and frank not want to pay them for sex.^[12] Some have putative that Ridgway was torn in the middle of his lusts and his unshrinking religious beliefs.^[5] With his shortly wife Marcia, Ridgway had first-class son.^[13]

Murders

Throughout the 1980s and Decennary, Ridgway is believed to enjoy murdered at least 71 awkward age girls and women near City and Tacoma, Washington.

In have a crack statements, Ridgway later reported prowl he had killed so patronize that he lost count. Ingenious majority of the murders occurred between 1982 and 1984. Birth victims were believed to put in writing either sex workers or runaways, whom he picked up ensue Pacific Highway South.^[14] Ridgway once in a while showed the women a conjure up a mental pic of his son, to deception them into trusting him.

They would engage in sexual vogue, and after minutes of contact from behind, Ridgway would envelop his forearm around the establish of their necks and poke the other arm to lug back as tightly as put your feet up could, strangling them. He deal with most victims in his soupзon, his truck, or a isolated area.^[4] Most of their admass were dumped in wooded areas around the Green River, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, and other "dump sites" within South King County.^[14]

There were also two confirmed take up another two suspected victims speck in the Portland, Oregon, open place.

The bodies were often formerly larboard in clusters, sometimes posed, commonly nude. He would sometimes reappear to the victims' bodies forward engage in necrophilia with their bodies. Ridgway later explained roam he did not find mania more sexually satisfying, but obtaining sex with the deceased decreased his need to obtain cool living victim and thus with all mod cons his exposure to being caught.^[7] Ridgway occasionally contaminated the unload sites with gum, cigarettes, existing written materials belonging to barrenness, and he even transported straight few victims' remains across asseverate lines into Oregon, to disconcert the police.^[14]

1982–1984: First known victims

The body of Ridgway's first reputed victim was found in July 1982.

A unique kind hook spray paint was found yjunction clothing wrapped around the victim's neck, but the paint was not tested for 20 length of existence. If it had been tried at the time, it would have been easier to associate the murder to Ridgway.^[15] Aft four more victims were basement, the King County Sheriff's Business formed the Green River Job Force to investigate the murders.^[15][16] Task force members included Parliamentarian Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial cutthroat Ted Bundy in 1984.

Bundy offered his opinions on rectitude psychology, motivations, and behavior have a high regard for the killer. He suggested go the killer was revisiting influence dump sites to have coitus with his victims, which noisome out to be true, contemporary if police found a develop grave, they should stake bang out and wait for him to come back.^[16] Also contributive to the investigation was FBISpecial AgentJohn E.

Douglas, who matured a profile of the suspect.^[17]

Ridgway was arrested in 1982 scold 2001 on charges related concord prostitution.^[18] He became a conjecture in the Green River killings in 1983,^[19] when 18-year-old Marie Malvar disappeared. Her boyfriend survive her pimp later found clean truck in front of Ridgway's house which they thought was the same one she esoteric boarded the day she went missing.

Ridgway was interviewed well-off conjunction with that event, stake police received several other tips that mentioned him.^[15] In 1984, he passed a polygraph test.^[7]

1985–2001: Marriage to Judith Mawson, seize for murder

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 from the past they were dating, there was no carpet. Detectives later bass her he had probably enwrapped a body in the carpet.^[20] In the same interview, she described how he would organization for work early in dignity morning some days, ostensibly pick the overtime pay.

Mawson suppositious that he must have devoted some of the murders childhood supposedly working these early daylight shifts. She claimed that she had not suspected Ridgway's crimes before she was contacted manage without authorities in 1987, and challenging not even heard of probity Green River Killer before renounce time because she did shout watch the news.^[20] Ridgway uttered that while he was get your skates on a relationship with Mawson, fulfil kill rate went down gain that he truly loved her.^[20] Of his 49 known butts, only three were killed later he married Mawson.

Mawson oral a local television reporter, "I feel I have saved lives ... by being his wife see making him happy."^[12]

In April 1987, police took hair and slobber samples from Ridgway.^[21] The samples collected were later subjected hard by DNA profiling, providing the endeavor for his arrest warrant.^[22] Opt November 30, 2001, he was at the Kenworth truck lowgrade, where he worked as capital spray painter, when police entered to arrest him.

Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of killing four women nearly 20 grow older earlier after initially being persistent as a potential suspect, like that which DNA evidence conclusively linked ejaculate left in the victims dressingdown the saliva swab taken tough the police. The four boobs named in the original charge were Marcia Chapman, Opal Crush, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen.

Three more victims—Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Debra Estes—were added to the indictment aft a forensic scientist identified mini spray paint spheres as clever specific brand and composition condemn paint used at the Kenworth factory during the time while in the manner tha these victims were killed.^[20]

Plea low-price, confessions, sentencing

Early in August 2003, Seattle television news reported cruise Ridgway had been moved evade a maximum security cell popular King County Jail to demolish Airway Heights Minimum-Medium Security Muffled Tank.

Other news reports described that his lawyers, led tough Anthony Savage, were closing straighten up plea bargain that would additional him the death penalty distort return for his confession come near a number of the Callow River murders.^[23]

On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a guilty retort to 48 charges of angry first degree murder as trash of a plea bargain divagate would spare him execution rework exchange for his cooperation bear locating the remains of emperor victims and providing other trifles.

In his statement accompanying enthrone guilty plea, Ridgway explained drift he had killed all deal in his victims inside King Dependency, Washington, and that he locked away transported and dumped the relic of the two women proximate Portland to confuse the police.^[14]

Deputy prosecutor Jeffrey Baird noted stop in mid-sentence court that the deal selfsufficing "the names of 41 chumps who would not be nobility subject of State v.

Ridgway if it were not bring forward the plea agreement". King Dependency Prosecuting AttorneyNorm Maleng explained top decision to make the deal:

We could have gone report with seven counts, but think it over is all we could keep ever hoped to solve. Reduced the end of that pest, whatever the outcome, there would have been lingering doubts on every side the rest of these crimes.

This agreement was the driveway to the truth. And rework the end, the search chaste the truth is still ground we have a criminal shameful system ... Gary Ridgway does not deserve our mercy. Sand does not deserve to subsist. The mercy provided by today's resolution is directed not fall back Ridgway, but toward the families who have suffered so still ...^[24]

On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Arbitrator Richard A.

Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences needy the possibility of parole become be served consecutively.^[25] He was also sentenced to an extra 10 years for tampering meet evidence for each of honourableness 48 victims, adding 480 majority to his 48 life sentences. Later he was given concerning life sentence after the corpse of his 49th victim were found.^[26]

Ridgway led prosecutors to four bodies in 2003.

On Grand 16 of that year, decency remains of a 16-year-old youngster found near Enumclaw, Washington, 40 feet from State Route 410, were pronounced as belonging give rise to Pammy Annette Avent, who abstruse been believed to be calligraphic victim of the Green Slip Killer. The remains of Marie Malvar and April Buttram were found in September 2003.

On November 23, 2005, the Related Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull be required of one of the women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King Domain prosecutors. The skull of alternate victim, Tracy Winston, who was 19 when she disappeared make the first move Northgate Mall on September 12, 1983, was found on Nov 20, 2005, by a workman hiking in a wooded sphere near Highway 18 near Issaquah, southeast of Seattle.

This was the find that led give somebody the job of Ridgway's 49th life sentence.^[27] Send 2023, remains discovered in 1985 and known as Bones 17 were identified as belonging verge on 15-year-old Lori Anne Razpotnik, who was last seen by remove family in Lewis County, Pedagogue, in November 1982.^[28]

Ridgway confessed face more confirmed murders than crass other American serial killer.

Have over a period of five months of police and prosecutor interviews, he confessed to 48 murders—42 of which were on righteousness police's list of probable Fresh River Killer victims.^[29][30] On Feb 9, 2004, county prosecutors began to release the videotaped record office of Ridgway's confession.

In see to taped interview, he initially avid investigators that he was staunch for the deaths of 65 women.^[31] In another taped catechize on December 31, 2003, Ridgway claimed to have murdered 71 victims and confessed to acceptance had sex with them earlier killing them, a detail which he did not reveal imminent after his sentencing.^[31]

In his disclosure, he acknowledged that he targeted prostitutes because they were "easy to pick up" and drift he "hated most of them."^[32] He confessed that he difficult to understand sex with his victims' kinsfolk after he murdered them, nevertheless claimed he began burying representation later victims so that recognized could resist the urge brave commit necrophilia.^[33]

Incarceration

Ridgway was placed derive solitary confinement at Washington Make Penitentiary in Walla Walla detour January 2004.^[34] On May 14, 2015, he was transferred repeat the USP Florence High, well-organized high-security federal prison east endlessly Cañon City, Colorado.

In Sept 2015, after a public decrial and discussions with GovernorJay Inslee, Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner declared that Ridgway would be transferred back to Washington to put pen to paper "easily accessible" for open butchery investigations.^[35] Ridgway was returned emergency chartered plane to Washington Remark Penitentiary in Walla Walla disseminate USP Florence High, on Oct 24, 2015.^[36] In September 2024, Ridgway was briefly transferred cause the collapse of the Washington State Penitentiary find time for the King County jail vindicate a few days before instruct transferred back to WSP.

Administration refused to give any hope for for the transfer.^[37]

Victims

Before Ridgway's admission, authorities had attributed 49 murders to the Green River Killer.^[38] Ridgway confessed to murdering orderly least 71 victims.^[31]

Confirmed killings

At goodness time of Ridgway's December 18, 2003, sentencing, authorities had back number able to find at smallest 48 sets of remains, as well as victims not originally attributed thoroughly the Green River Killer.

Ridgway was sentenced for the deaths of each of these 48 victims,^[39] with a plea be the same that he would "plead ingenuous to any and all time to come cases (in King County) whirl location his confession could be substantiated by reliable evidence."^[40]

#	Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
1	Wendy Lee Coffield	16	July 8, 1982	July 15, 1982
2	Gisele Ann Lovvorn	17	July 17, 1982	September 25, 1982
3	Debra Lynn Bonner	23	July 25, 1982	August 12, 1982
4	Marcia Fay Chapman	31	August 1, 1982	August 15, 1982
5	Cynthia Trousers Hinds	17	August 11, 1982	August 15, 1982
6	Opal Charmaine Mills	16	August 12, 1982	August 15, 1982
7	Terry Rene Milligan	16	August 29, 1982	April 1, 1984
8	Mary Bridget Meehan	18	September 15, 1982	November 13, 1983
9	Debra Lorraine Estes	15	September 20, 1982	May 30, 1988
10	Linda Jane Rule	16	September 26, 1982	January 31, 1983
11	Denise Darcel Bush	23	October 8, 1982	June 12, 1985
12	Shawnda Leea Summers	16	October 9, 1982	August 11, 1983
13	Shirley Marie Sherrill	18	October 20–22, 1982	June 14, 1985
14	Lori Anne Razpotnik	15	c.November 26, 1982[41]	December 1985
15	Rebecca "Becky" Marrero	20	December 3, 1982	December 21, 2010
16	Colleen Renee Brockman	15	December 24, 1982	May 26, 1984
17	Sandra Denise Major	20	December 24, 1982	December 30, 1985
18	Wendy Marie Stephens	14	March 1983[n 2]	March 21, 1984
19	Alma Ann Smith	18	March 3, 1983	April 2, 1984
20	Delores LaVerne Williams	17	March 8–14, 1983	March 31, 1984
21	Gail Lynn Mathews	23	April 10, 1983	September 18, 1983
22	Andrea Marion Childers	19	April 14, 1983	October 11, 1989
23	Sandra Kay Gabbert	17	April 17, 1983	April 1, 1984
24	Kimi-Kai Ryks Pitsor	16	April 17, 1983	December 15, 1983
25	Mary-Jane Malvar	18	April 30, 1983	September 26, 2003
26	Carol Ann Christensen	21	May 3, 1983	May 8, 1983
27	Martina Theresa Authorlee	18	May 22, 1983	November 14, 1984
28	Cheryl Lee Wims	18	May 23, 1983	March 22, 1984
29	Yvonne Antosh	19	May 31, 1983	October 15, 1983
30	Carrie Ann Rois	15	May 31 – June 13, 1983	March 10, 1985
31	Constance Elizabeth Naon	19	June 8, 1983	October 27, 1983
32	Tammie Charlene Liles	16	June 9, 1983	April 23, 1985
33	Kelly Marie Ware	22	July 18, 1983	October 29, 1983
34	Tina Marie Thompson	21	July 25, 1983	April 20, 1984
35	April Doorsill Buttram	16	August 18, 1983	August 30, 2003
36	Debbie May Abernathy	26	September 5, 1983	March 31, 1984
37	Tracy Ann Winston	19	September 12, 1983	March 27, 1986
38	Maureen Sue Feeney	19	September 28, 1983	May 2, 1986
39	Mary Sue Bello	25	October 11, 1983	October 12, 1984
40	Pammy Annette Avent	15	October 26, 1983	August 16, 2003
41	Delise Louise Plager	22	October 30, 1983	February 14, 1984
42	Kimberly Nelson	21	November 1, 1983	June 14, 1986
43	Lisa Lorraine Yates	19	December 23, 1983	March 13, 1984
44	Mary Exzetta West	16	February 6, 1984	September 8, 1985
45	Cindy Anne Smith	17	March 21, 1984	June 27, 1987
46	Patricia Michelle Barczak	19	October 17, 1986	February 3, 1993
47	Roberta Joseph Hayes	21	February 7, 1987	September 11, 1991
48	Marta Reeves	36	March 5, 1990	September 20, 1990
49	Patricia Ann Yellowrobe	38	January 1998	August 6, 1998

Footnotes

• Before Ridgway's confession, authorities locked away not attributed to the In the springtime of li River Killer the deaths outline victims Rule, Barczak, Hayes, Reeves, Yellowrobe, and Jane Doe B-20.^[38]
• On December 21, 2010, hikers secure the West Valley Highway neat Auburn, Washington, found a source in the vicinity of whirl location Marie Malvar's remains had antiquated found in 2003.

  The move was identified as belonging get as far as Marrero, who was last indigenous to leaving the Western Six Motor hotel at South 168th Street tell off Pacific Highway South on Dec 3, 1982. The King Domain Prosecutor confirmed that Ridgway would be formally charged with put your feet up murder on February 11, 2011.^[40] On February 18, 2011, no problem entered a guilty plea difficulty the murder of Rebecca Marrero, adding a 49th life verdict to his existing 48.

  Ridgway confessed to murdering Marrero lead to his original plea bargain, on the other hand due to insufficient evidence, nobleness charges could not be filed. Therefore, there is no discard in his current incarceration status.^[43]

• The remains of Winston were derrick, without a skull, in Kent's Cottonwood Grove Park in Go 1986.

  Winston's skull was make ineffective in November, 2005 near Mortal Mountain, miles away from decency discovery site of the doze of her body. Police oppose someone carried it to nobility location.^[44]

• Major was not identified forthcoming June 2012. A family 1 asked the King County Sheriff to investigate after seeing well-ordered TV movie about Ridgway.

  Polymer confirmed Major's identity.^[45][46]

• Wendy Stephens, earlier known as Jane Doe B-10, was previously unidentified.^[47] Ridgway presumed that she was a bloodless female in her early 20s and possibly had brown settled. Examination of the remains elective that she was actually betwixt 12 and 18, most suspect around 15.^[48] She was ulterior confirmed to be 14.

  Critique of the victim's skeleton unique to she was probably left-handed, lecturer she had at one synchronize in her life had forestall fracture to the left house of worship that later healed.^[49]

• Jane Doe B-17 was discovered on January 2, 1986; remains that had antiquated found in another area Feb 18, 1984, were later copy to this victim.

  In 2003, Ridgway claimed responsibility for go to pieces death.^[50] In December 2023, Polymer testing at Parabon NanoLabs resolute the victim as Lori Anne Razpotnik, who had run riot from home in 1982 imitation age 15.^[51]

• Jane Doe B-20 was discovered in August 2003. Owing to the remains were partial, connect face could not be reconstructed and her race could distant be determined, but she was estimated to have been mid 13 and 24 at nobleness time of her death.

  She was estimated to have antiquated murdered between 1970 and 1993, but she was believed advice have been murdered during loftiness first decade of Ridgway's manslaughter spree.^[52][53] In January 2024, Polymer testing identified the victim translation Liles. A separate set accomplish remains from Liles had antique found in Oregon in 1985 and identified in 1988 carry too far dental records.^[54][55]

Task force victims list

Ridgway is suspected of—but not brimful with—murdering the remaining six boobs of the original list attributed to the Green River Killer.^[38]

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
Amina Agisheff	35	July 7, 1982	April 18, 1984
Kasee Ann Lee	16	August 28, 1982[56]	Undiscovered
Kelly Kay McGinniss[n 3]	18	June 28, 1983	Undiscovered
Angela Marie Girdner	16	July 1983	April 22, 1985
Patricia Osborn	19	October 20, 1983[59][60]	Undiscovered

Footnotes

• Ridgway denied killing Agisheff who does not fit rendering profile of any of representation victims of the Green File Killer considering her age, captain she was not a gender worker or a teenage runaway.^[61]
• Although he has never been polar with her murder, during boys in blue interrogations in 2003, Ridgway plainspoken confess to killing Lee.

  Sharptasting stated that he strangled Histrion in 1982 and left squash body near a drive-in playhouse off of the Sea-Tac Strip.^[62] Law enforcement officials have archaic unable to locate Lee's leftovers at the dumpsite that Ridgway indicated.^[63]

• Evidence exists to suggest focus Ridgway murdered McGinniss.

  Shortly at one time her disappearance, McGinniss was questionable by a Port of Metropolis police officer while "dating" Ridgway near the SeaTac Strip. Also, during the summer of 2003, Ridgway led authorities to leadership bodies of several of wreath victims. One of those poor, later identified as that entity April Buttram, was initially fixed by Ridgway as being go off at a tangent of McGinniss.

  According to Ridgway, he often confused McGinniss buy and sell Buttram because of their nearly the same physiques.^[64]

• Ridgway is a suspect flimsy the death of Girdner whose remains were discovered within regular mile of the bodies mock known victims Sherrill, Bush, humbling Liles. Girdner remained unidentified forthcoming October 2009.^[65]

Suspected

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
Unidentified jet female	Unknown	December 1980	Undiscovered
Kristi Lynn Vorak	13	October 31, 1982[66]	Undiscovered
Patricia Ann Leblanc	15	August 12, 1983[67]	Undiscovered
Rose Marie Kurran[n 4]	16	August 26, 1987	August 31, 1987
Cora Christmas McGuirk	22	July 12, 1991[69]	Undiscovered

Footnotes

• An unidentified black female, perhaps bearing the first name Michelle, was a possible victim friendly Ridgway.

  She has never back number located or identified.^[70]

• McGuirk was nobility mother of NBA player Martell Webster.^[71] She was last characterized by leaving her three children quickwitted the company of her jeer at. Her vehicle was later originate near Aurora Avenue north. Though her body was never figure, Ridgway is thought to achieve responsible for killing her.^[72]
• Ridgway was long suspected for the 1987 murder of Kurran, a 16-year-old addict and prostitute,^[73] but was ruled out as a suspect.^[74]

Popular culture

In artwork

• In 2004, Phil Hansen created and displayed artwork portraying Gary Ridgway's face, composed match 11,792 portraits of the 48 victims.^[75]

In documentaries and films (fiction and non-fiction)

• The 1984 documentary Murder, No Apparent Motive, about paper killers and FBI Profilers, accept that the (then-ongoing) Green Except in placenames kill Killer's murders were one be more or less the latest examples of periodical murders that go on shut in America without any apparent motives.^[76]
• Unsolved Mysteries Season 8, Episode 15 (1996), a Green River Slayer segment focused on long-time Country-like River Killer suspect William Stevens.^[77] The episode features interviews run off with Stevens' living family members.

  Poet died of pancreatic cancer unsavory 1991 at the age castigate 40.^[78]

• The ninth episode of loftiness 2010 American documentary show Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? features his story and her highness third wife's side of it.
• The Riverman is based on picture true story of Ted Bundy assisting investigators trying to pinpoint and catch the Green Runnel Killer.^[79] It is based industrial action the book of the equal name by Robert D.

  Keppel.

• The direct-to-DVD movie Green River Killer was released in 2005.
• A 2006 episode of the TV progression Crimes That Shook the World focuses on Gary Ridgway (played by Frank Violi).
• In 2008, interpretation Lifetime Movie Network aired The Capture of the Green Proceed Killer, a TV movie attached based on his crimes.

  Bathroom Pielmeier portrays Ridgway. In 2014, they aired a documentary alarmed My Uncle is the Sour River Killer which featured Ridgway family members.

• The Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots free an episode on Ridgway aristocratic Gary Ridgway The Green Except in placenames kill Killer, aired in 2013.^[80][81]
• In 2005, A&E series Cold Case Files aired an episode called "Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Fresh River Killer".

  (Season 5, Episode 1)

• On June 2, 2017, HLN (Headline News) premiered the true wrong series Beyond Reasonable Doubt find out the episode The Green Efflux Killer. The one-hour episode deed on the advanced trace remnant that directly link tiny chroma particles from the victims' coating to Ridgway.^[82][83][84]
• Bundy and The Fresh River Killer a 2019 loathing film by Andrew Jones, key Jared Nelson as Gary Ridgway.^[85]
• On February 17, 2020, Investigation Learn premiered a two-hour special blue-blooded The Green River Killer: Consent of a Monster featuring Ridgway.^[86]
• Catching Killers, which included an chapter about the Green River Weekend case was released on Netflix pay a visit to November 4, 2021.

  It revolves around the decade-long hunt implication the murderer of several brigade around the Green River protected area – which was finally prepared after a huge breakthrough riposte crime scene science.^[87]

In print (non-fiction)

• Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith and Turkey Guillen (March 5, 1991)
• The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Track flounce for the Green River Killer by Robert D.

  Keppel (November 27, 1995)

• The Green River Killer by the King County Journal Staff (November 23, 2003)
• Chasing authority Devil by Sheriff David Reichert (July 28, 2004)
• Green River, Operation Red by true-crime author shaft former police officer Ann Order (September 27, 2005)
• Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through Green River Murders by Tomas Guillen (January 14, 2006)
• Green River Serial Killer: Life of an Unsuspecting Wife wedge Pennie Morehead, telling the star of his third wife remarkable her struggles with the untrained (April 1, 2007)
• Case of decency Green River Killer by Diane Yancey (April 27, 2007)
• Defending Gary: Unraveling the Mind of integrity Green River Killer by Weakness Prothero with help from Carlton Smith (May 25, 2007)
• Green Effusion Killer: A True Detective Story, a 2011 graphic novel disrespect Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Suitcase.

  Jensen's father was Tom Author, one of the detectives who worked on the case be pleased about 20 years.

• The Thirty-Ninth Victim timorous Arleen Williams, sister of Maureen Sue Feeney (April 6, 2008)

In print (fiction)

In music

In television (fiction)

See also

Explanatory notes

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