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The Green River Killer - A History

Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, 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 young Ridgway witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents. His father was a bus driver who would often complain about the presence of sex workers.

Ridgway had a bed wetting problem until he was 13, and his mother would wash his genitals after every episode. He would later tell defense psychologists that, as an adolescent, he had conflicting feelings of anger and sexual attraction toward his mother, and fantasized about killing her.

Ridgway was dyslexic, and was held back a year in high school. When he was sixteen, he stabbed a 6 year old boy, who survived the attack. Ridgway had led the boy into the woods and then stabbed him through the ribs into his liver.

Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married his 19 year old high school girlfriend, Claudia Kraig. He joined the US Navy and was sent to Vietnam, where he served on board a supply ship and saw combat. During his time in the military, Ridgway began to have frequent sexual inter course with numerous sex workers and contracted gonorrhea; although angered by this, he continued his practice without protection. While Ridgway was abroad, Kraig had an extramarital affair. The marriage ended within a year.

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 other partners. His second wife, Marcia Winslow, claimed that he had placed her in a chokehold. He had become religious during his second marriage, proselytizing door to door reading the Bible aloud at work and at home, and insisting the his wife follow the strict teachings of their pastor. Ridgway would also frequently cry after sermons or reading the Bible. 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.

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. Often, he would want to have sex in a public area or in the woods. Ridgway himself admitted to having a fixation with sex workers, 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. It has been speculated that Ridgway was torn between his lusts and his staunch religious beliefs.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In court statements, he later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count. A majority of the murders occurred between 1982-1984. The victims were believed to be either prostitutes or runaways picked up along Pacific Highway South, whom he strangled. Most of their bodies were dumped in wooded areas around the Green River, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and other "Dump sites" within South King County. There were also two confirmed and another suspected victims found in the Portland Oregon area. The bodies were often left in clusters, sometimes posed, usually nude. He would sometimes return to the victims' bodies and have sexual intercourse with them. Ridgway later explained that he did not find necrophilia more sexual satisfying, but having sex with the deceased reduced his need to obtain a living victim and thus limited his exposure to being caught. Because most of the bodies were not discovered until only the skeletons remained, three victims are still unidentified. 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.

Ridgway began each murder by picking up a woman, usually a prostitute. He sometimes showed the woman a picture of his son, to trick her into trusting him. After raping her, Ridgway strangled her from behind. He initially strangled them manually. However, after many victims inflicted wounds and bruises on his arm while trying to defend themselves. Ridgway began using ligatures. He killed most victims in his home, his truck, or a secluded area. In the early 1980s, the King County Sheriff's Office formed the Green River Task Force to investigate the murders. Task force members included Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed the incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy in 1984. Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of a 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. Also contributing to the investigation was John E Douglas who developed a profile of the suspect.

Ridgway was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution. He became a suspect in the Green River killings in 1983. In 1984, Ridgway took and passed a polygraph test, although careful review using quality control protocols later developed by the FBI determined that Ridgway actually failed his polygraph test. On April 7, 1987, a police took hair and saliva samples from Ridgway.

Around 1985, Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his 3rd 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. 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 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.

Author Pennie Morehead interviewed Ridgway in prison, and he said while he was in the relationship with Mawson, his kill rate went down, and he truly loved her. Indeed, of his 49 known victims, only 3 were killed after he married Mawson. Mawson told a local television reporter, "I feel I have saves lives... by being his wife and making him happy."

The samples collected in 1987 were later subjected to a DNA analysis, providing the evidence for his arrest warrant. On November 30, 2001, Ridgway was at the Kenworth Truck factory, where he worked as a spray painter, when police arrived to arrest him. Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of murdering four women nearly 20 years earlier after first being identified as a potential suspect, when DNA evidence conclusively liked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the police. 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 specific time frame when these victims were killed.

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 reporters stated that his lawyers, led by Anthony Savage, were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders.

On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder as part of a plea bargain, agreed to in June, 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.

On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Judge Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be served consecutively. 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 sentenced.

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. On February 9, 2004, county prosecutors began to release the videotape records of Ridgway's confessions. In one taped interview, he told investigators initially that he was responsible for the death of 65 women, but in another taped interview with Reichert 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. In his confession, he acknowledged that he targeted prostitutes because they were "easy to pick up" and that he "hated most of them." 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.

Ridgway talked to and tried to make his victims comfortable before he committed the murders. In his own words, "I would talk to her... and get her mind off of the sex, anything she was nervous about. And think, you know, she thinks, 'Oh, this guy cares'... which I didn't. Which I didn't. I just want to, uh, get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her.

Later in a statement, Ridgway said that murdering young women was his "career."

Ridgway was placed in solitary confinement at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in January 2004. On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the USP Florence, a high-security federal prison east of Canon City, Colorado. In September 2015, after a public outcry and discussions with Governor Jay Inslee, Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner announced that Ridgway would be transferred back to Washington to be "easily accessible" for open murder investigations. Ridgway was returned to by charter plane to Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla from the High Security Federal Prison in Florence Colorado, on October 24, 2015.

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thekillerblogofkillers · 7 years ago

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Gary Ridgway (1949-?)

Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer who was initially convicted of 48 separate murders and is believed to be responsible for more than 90. As part of Ridgway’s plea bargain, an additional conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions to 49, making him the most prolific American serial killer in history though confirmed murders alone. He murdered many women and girls in Washington State during the 1980s and 1990s. The majority of Ridgway’s victims were alleged sex workers and other vulnerable women, including underage runaways. The press nicknamed him the Green River Killer after the first 5 victims were discovered near the Green River and the killer’s identity was unknown. He strangled the women, usually by hand but sometimes by using ligatures. After strangling them, he dumped their bodies in forested/overgrown areas in King County, often returning to the corpses to have sexual intercourse with them. On November 30, 2001, as Ridgway was leaving the Kenworth truck factory where he was employed in Renton, Washington, he was arrested for the murders of 4 women whose cases were linked to him via DNA evidence. As part of a plea bargain Ridgway agreed to tell police the location of women who were missing and was spared the death penalty, instead receiving a sentence of life imprisonment.

Gary Leon Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 18, 1949, the 2nd son of Mary and Thomas Ridgway’s 3 sons. His home life was troubled, with relatives later describing his mother as domineering, saying that young Ridgway saw more than 1 violent argument between his parents. His father was a bus driver who often complained about the presence of prostitutes. When Ridgway was just 16, he stabbed a 6-year-old boy, who survived. He led the body into the woods and then stabbed him through the ribs into his liver. Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married Claudia Kraig, 19, his high school girlfriend. He joined the U.S. Army and was deployed to Vietnam, where he served on board a supply ship and saw active combat. During his time in the military, Ridgway began having frequent sexual encounters with prostitutes and contracted gonorrhoea – despite being angered by this, he continued having sleeping with sex workers without protection. While Ridgway was away in the service, Kraig had an extramarital affair and the marriage ended within a year.

When friends and family were questioned about Ridgway after his eventual arrest, they described him as friendly but strange. His first 2 marriages ended in divorce because of infidelity on both sides. Ridgway’s 2nd wife, Marcia Winslow, claimed that he had once placed her in a chokehold. Ridgway became religious during his 2nd marriage, going door-to-door trying to convert people, reading the Bible aloud at work and at home, insisting that his wife followed the strict teaching of their pastor. Ridgway would frequently cry after sermons or reading the Bible, but he also continued to use the services of sex workers during this marriage. He also tried to convince his wife to participate in sex in public/inappropriate places, sometimes even in areas where his victims’ bodies were later found. The women in Ridgway’s life said he had an insatiable sexual appetite. His 3 ex-wives and numerous ex-girlfriends reported that Ridgway demanded sex several times a day, often wanting to have sex in a public area or in the woods. Ridgway himself admitted to having an obsession with sex workers, claiming to have a love/hate relationship with them. He often complained about them being present in his neighbourhood, but also used their services frequently. It has been speculated that Ridgway was torn between uncontrollable lusts and staunch religious beliefs.

Through the ‘80s and ‘90s, Ridgway is believed to have killed at least 71 women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. His court statements later reported that he had killed so many he had lost count. A majority of the murders occurred between 1982-1984. The victims were mostly runaways or sex workers picked up along Pacific Highway South, whom Ridgway strangled. Most of the victims’ bodies were dumped in wooded areas near the Green River, except for 2 confirmed and another 2 suspected victims who were found in the Portland, Oregon area. The corpses were often left in clusters, some of them posed, usually nude. He would sometimes return to the bodies and have sex with them. Because most of the bodies weren’t discovered until the remains were skeletal, 3 victims remain unidentified. Ridgway occasionally contaminated the dumpsites with gum, cigarettes and written materials that belonged to other people, even transporting a few victims’ remains across state lines into Oregon to confuse police. Ridgway began each murder by picking up a woman – usually a sex worker. He would sometimes show the women a picture of his son in an attempt to trick her into trusting him. After raping the victim, Ridgway would strangle her from behind, initially manually. Many victims managed to inflict bruises and wounds on his arm in an attempt to defend themselves. Out of concern that these injuries would draw attention, Ridgway began using ligatures to strangle his victims. Most victims were killed in his truck, home, or a secluded area. In the early 1980s the King County Sheriff’s Office formed the Green River Task Force to investigate the murders. The most notorious members of the task force were Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who interviewed incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy in 1984. Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations and behaviour of the killer – he suggested that the killer would be revisiting the dump sites to have sex with his victims, which did turn out to be true, and if police found a fresh grave, they should stake it out and wait for the killer to return. John E. Douglas also contributed to the investigation, who later wrote a lot on the subject of the Green River Killer.

In 1982 and again in 2001 Ridgway was arrested on charges related to prostitution. He became a suspect in the Green River killings in 1983 and in 1984 took a polygraph test, which he passed. Quality control protocols that were developed by the FBI later revealed that Ridgway had actually failed this test, and on April 7, 1987, police took hair and saliva samples from Ridgway. Around 1985, Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his 3rd wife in 1988. Mawson claimed in a 2010 TV interview that when she moved into his house there was no carpet – detectives later told her that he had probably used his carpets to wrap bodies in. She also talked about how Ridgway would leave for work early in the morning, claiming the reason was for overtime pay. Mawson believed that he must have committed some of the murders while supposedly working these early morning shifts. She claimed that she hadn’t suspect Ridgway’s crimes at all before being contacted by authorities in 1987, and hadn’t even heard of the Green River Killer before then because she didn’t watch the news. Author Pennie Morehead, who interviewed Ridgway in prison, said that while he was in a relationship with Mawson his kill rate went down, and speculated that he had truly loved her. The evidence supports this, due to the fact that of Ridgway’s 49 known victims, only 3 were killed after he married Mawson. Mawson later told a local television reporter, “I feel I have saved lives...by being his wife and making him happy.” The samples that were collected in 1987 were later subjected to a DNA analysis and provided the evidence for his arrest warrant. On November 30, 2001, Ridgway was at the Kenworth Truck factory, where he worked as a spray painter, when police arrived to arrest him. He was arrested on suspicion of murdering 4 women nearly 20 years after being first identified as a potential suspect, when DNA evidence conclusively linked semen left in the victims’ saliva swab taken by police. The 4 victims named in the original indictment were Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. 3 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 frame when these victims were killed.

In early August 2003, Seattle TV 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 working on a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders. On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a plea of guilty to 48 charges of aggravated 1st degree murder as part of a plea bargain, agreed to in June, that spared him the death penalty in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details. In Ridgway’s statement accompanying his guilty plea, he explained that all of the victims were killed inside King County, Washington, and that he had transported and dumped the bodies of 2 women near Portland to confuse police. Deputy prosecutor Jeffrey Baird noted in court that the deal contained “the names of 41 victims who would not be the subject of State v. Ridgway if it were not for the plea agreement.” King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng explained his reasons for making the deal: “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...” On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Judge Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole and 1 life sentence, to be served consecutively. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for evidence tampering for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences.

In 2003, Ridgway led prosecutors to 3 bodies. In August 2003 the remains of a 16-year-old girl were found near Enumclaw, Washington, 40 feet from State Route 410. They were pronounced as belonging to Pammy Annette Avent, who was believed to be a victim of the Green River Killer. The remains of Marie Malvar and April Buttram were found in September. On November 23, 2005, The Associated Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of 1 of the 48 women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors. The skull of Tracy Winston, who was 19 when she disappeared from Northgate Mall on September 12, 1983, was found on November 20, 2005 by a man hiking in a wooded area near Highway 18 near Issaquah, southeast of Seattle. Ridgway confessed to more confirmed murders than any other American serial killer. In a 5 month period of police and prosecutor interviews, he confessed to 48 murders, 42 of which were on the police’s list of likely Green River Killer victims. On February 9, 2004, county prosecutors began releasing the videotape records of Ridgway’s confessions. In one of these videos, he told investigators that he was responsible for the deaths of 65 women, but later claimed to have murdered 71 victims and confessed to having had sex with them before he killed them, a detail which he didn’t reveal until after he was sentenced. In his confession, he acknowledged that he targeted sex workers because they were “easy to pick up” and that he “hated most of them.” He confessed to having sex with the bodies of his victims after he murdered them, but claimed that he later buried the victims so he could resist the urge to commit necrophilia. Ridgway would talk to his victims and try to make them comfortable before murdering them. He later said: “I would talk to her...and get her mind off of the, sex, anything she was nervous about. And think, you know, she thinks, ‘Oh, this guy cares’...which I didn’t. I just want to, uh, get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her.” In a later statement Ridgway said that killing young women was his “career”.

Ridgway was put in solitary confinement at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in January 2004. In 2005, Ridgway made more pleas with the Federal government and was transferred to Airway Heights where he was put in a minimum-medium security tank. On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the USP Florence, a high-security federal prison east of Canon City, Colorado. In September 2015 after public disgust and discussions with Governor Jay Inslee, Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner proclaimed that Ridgway would be sent back to Washington to be “easily accessible” for open murder investigations. Ridgway was taken by chartered plane back to Washington from the High Security Federal Prison in Florence, Colorado on October 24, 2015.

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