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Dennis Rader -- BTK Serial Killer Gary Leon Ridgway has confessed to 48 killings attributed to him. His cooperation lead to finding four sets of remains. His killings spanned from 1982 to 1998. Ridgway plead guilty to murdering 48 Green River Killer victims on November 5, 2003. Ridgway says strangling young women was his "career." Tony Savage, attorney for Gary Ridgway, who isserving life without parole in state prison; King County sheriff Dave Reichert, eight years as lead investigator on the Green River task force; detective Tom Jensen joined in the investigation in 1984, has worked on it longer than anyone else and interviewed the killer himself; FBI special agent Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole, a senior profiler, and expert on serial killers interviewed Ridgway last year. Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Update:
Two bodies on the official list of Green River victims were found in Oregon, which has capital punishment. Authorities believe Ridgway committed from 60 up to hundreds of murders. Garrett Mills the brother of Green River victim, Opal Mills remembers their childhood together. Families remember loved ones lost Patricia Michelle Barczak was 19 when she vanished. Ridgway was 16 when he stabbed his first victim, a 6-year-old boy who was critically injured. Police ignored the boy when he fingered Ridgway as his attacker. In 1983 when Paige Elizabeth Miley 21, talked briefly with a man who would later be accused of four of the 1982-84 Green River murders. The man asked where her "tall, blond friend" was, and Miley guessed he was the abductor of fellow prostitute Kim Nelson two days before. Ridgway left jewelry he took from victims in women's bathroom at work hoping they would wear it.
In his own words ``I would talk to her ... and get her mind off of the, uh, anything she was nervous about. And think, you know, she thinks, `Oh, this guy cares,' and which I, I didn't. I just want to uh get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her.'' Hatred and arrogance fueled Ridgway "In most cases, when I murdered these women, I did not know their names," Ridgway's statement to the court said. "Most of the time, I killed them the first time I met them. I do not have a good memory for their faces. I killed so many women, I have a hard time keeping them straight." Ridgway enjoyed returning to his ``clusters'' of bodies. Many helped bring Ridgway to justice Ridgway killed as many as 70 women. The Green River plea bargain and the case for capital punishment Behind the scenes of Ridgway's stunning confession Ridgway tried to reassure victims before he killed A look at the `secret' spot where Ridgway was kept The History of the Green River KillingsNearly 20 years ago, 49 killings occurred during a 3 year period. The case remains the largest known unsolved serial murder spree in the US. The term "Green River killer" was coined because the first 5 bodies were found in or near Green River in Kent, south King County, WA in 1982. 37 victims were found on dry land. Off Star Lake Road on Kent's West Hill south of the Green River Valley is where 5 more victims were found. Other clusters of bodies were found near Sea -Tac, North Bend, Enumclaw, and OR. No one knows why the killings linked to the Green River seemed to have stopped sometime in 1984. Now they are not sure they did. Recent investigations indicate the Green River Killer reign of terror might have extended beyond the 1982 -1984 span and could have extended his crimes geographically as far as San Diego, CA, Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC. Ongoing investigations are looking for clues to link the crimes. A few elements of the Green River Killer FBI Profile
Green River Facts:
Denise Bush 's remains were found in 2 separate dump sites, hours apart from each other. On November 30, 2001, Gary Leon Ridgway, a 52 year married man who had worked for the same company for 32 years was arrested for the murders of 4 of the "Green River Killer" victims. Items found on or near several victims led some to believe the killings were religiously motivated. That runaways and prostitutes, were killed in the name of God. Bob Keppel calls that hogwash. "If he was doing that," Keppel said, "he didn't need to do what he did to those bodies sexually and after death. There's something else working there." Investigator Bob Keppel believes if Ridgway is the Green River Killer, he never stopped. He took his killing elsewhere. There are 80 unsolved murders of young women between Vancouver, Canada and Portland, Oregon over the past 20 years. Gary Ridgway is a prime suspect in those cases. Norm Maleng, King County Prosecutor will not accept a guilty plea in exchange for not pursuing the death penalty. Defense Attorney Tony Savage says they won't be offering one either. Sexual Sadism, Cannibalism, Necrophilia -- The term sadism is derived from the French author who lived from 1740 to 1814, Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade, known as the Marquis de Sade . Sadists mix love with cruelty. The practice was recognized as a sexual perversion by Krafft-Ebing in 1898 consisting of strong impulses to coitus, coupled with prepatory acts of maltreatment, even murder (necrophilia, then called "lustmurder") which occurs primarily because of an inability to be satisfied with coitus.
Kari & Associates Sources: Associated Press, Reuters, King 5 TV, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Tacoma News Tribune, KOMO, KIRO, NW Cable News, Seattke Weekly, Eastside Journal, South County Journal July 25, 2007 Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2007 |
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