Solved Green River Killer

[exe ex machina]

The Truth About the Green River Killer


Gary Ridgway should have been caught a long time ago. His choice of victims had everything to do with why he wasn't.

In a calm voice and with an expressionless gaze, a bespectacled 54-year-old Washington State resident by the name of Gary Ridgway confessed to killing 48 women.

To be accurate, Ridgway r*ped, choked, killed and discarded 48 women, including many teenagers as young as 15 years of age.

Ridgway was a married man and a father, a white guy from Auburn, Washington who held the same job for 30 years--and who got away with killing one female after another for over 20 years.

When the nation's worst captured serial killer finally began cooperating with authorities to reveal the locations of his victims, people in the Pacific Northwest breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Finally, the notorious Green River Killer had been caught. And finally, the family members of the deceased could have some peace of mind, knowing that the nightmare, at least in one sense, was over.

Detective work, diligence, and a decision on the part of the King County Prosecutor to spare Ridgway the death sentence in exchange for information are all being hailed as a job well done.

Ridgway will never kill again.

But the question remains: Why was he allowed to kill, again and again, when so much evidence had already pointed in his direction two decades ago?

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[Doss]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway

This suggests that the figure of 48 could actually be as high as 71.

 

[rocker_oz33]

I watched a show on the green river killer shocking stuff really.Ridgway took a girl from one place afreind seen Ridgway and his truck and followed him to hes house and then went and got the cops.The cops asked Ridgway about this I dont know how Ridgway got away with this? was it hes Ned flanders looks and softy spoken voice umm.Ridgway seemed to only kill when single after he got married he stopped killing for anumber of years.One of hes early girls he killed played a key in him getting caught with DNA it took years later before it could have been used.

 

[Glacier]

Ridgeway proved how the long held view that a serial killer could not be " normal " in other areas of life a complete fallicy
Held a job as a painter at Kenworth for years and partners , neighbors and co workers had no idea as he just blended into society
Who would really know how many women he killed, he could not even say

 

[Sebastian Balboa]

Read about this a fair bit.
An author or journalist of one of the first books written about the killings would later relate this creep's presence at either a taped-off crime scene or a book signing, asking bland questions. This, well before he was caught.