Convicted of 49 murders and confessed to nearly twice that number, Gary Leon Ridgway may be one of the deadliest serial killer the United States have known. His victims were women and girls, mostly prostitutes from Washington State. He committed all of his crimes between the 1980s and 1990s. The press gave him the nickname of the "Green River Killer" after five of his victims were found in the Green River, and his identity was not know yet. To kill his victims, he would strangle them, usually with his arms, but sometimes using some kind of cord like rope, shoe laces or wires. He would then drop his victims' bodies randomly throughout forests and wild areas in King County. Ridgway would often return to his victims' dead bodies to have sexual contacts with them.
Gary Leon Ridgway was arrested for the murders of four women on November 30, 2001, as he was leaving his job in Washington. The cases of the dead women were linked to him through DNA evidence. As a result of a plea bargain with the court where he released information on the still-missing women. He then received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole and the death penalty.
"I'm not a rapist, I'm a serial killer" -Gary Leon Ridgway
To learn more on the Green River Killer, visit http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
Written by Laurie St-Pierre
Written by Laurie St-Pierre
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