Posted on 11/05/2003 11:01:28 AM PST by Indy Pendance
From statement of Green River killer Gary Ridgway, read in court Wednesday by prosecutor Jeff Baird:
I killed the 48 women listed in the state's second amended information. In most cases when I killed these women I did not know their names. Most of the time I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight.
I have reviewed information and discovery about each of the murders with my attorneys and I am positive that I killed each one of the women charged in the second information. I killed them all in King County. I killed most of them in my house near Military Road, and I killed a lot of them in my truck not far from where I picked them up.
I killed some of them outside. I remember leaving each woman's body in the place where she was found.
I have discussed with my attorneys the common scheme or plan, aggravating circumstance charged in all of these murders. I agree that each of the murders I committed was part of a common scheme or plan. The plan was I wanted to kill as many women I thought were prostitutes as I possibly could.
I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex. I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.
Another part of my plan was where I put the bodies of these women. Most of the time I took the women's jewelry and their clothes to get rid of any evidence and make them harder to identify. I placed most of the bodies in groups which I call clusters. I did this because I wanted to keep track of all the women I killed.
I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there. I usually used a landmark to remember a cluster and the women I placed there. Sometimes I killed and dumped a woman intending to start a new cluster and never returned because I thought I might get caught putting more women there.
Happy (Late) Halloween...
I suppose they saw something positive in it...
They're not going to kill this guy? Were they just feeling particularly good on the day they made the deal?
An author by the name of Dr. Robert Hare wrote an excellent book for layman on the subject of psychopaths. This guy is probably the best expert on the subject you will find. When he wrote the book back in 1993, he estimated that there were 2 million psychopaths in North America alone. Fortunately, being a psychopath doesn't necessarily mean you are also a serial killer. On the other hand, most if not all, serial killers are psychopaths. The truth of the matter is that serial killers are rare.
Won't matter.
Like California, Washington has a death penalty it refuses to carry out unless it's absolutely forced to. I think about 3 have been executed since the DP was reinstated. The remainder on death row die of old age.
The men who are bent on murdering Terri -- Michael Schiavo, George Felos, Judge Greer -- these men are more false, more treacherous, more cruel than the sociopathic Ridgway.
If he owns up to it the cases they can clear all of them and it saved them the expense and risk of a jury trial.
It’s much cheaper for the state to just match him up with a freelance executioner in prison, like they did to Dahmer.
And it's much more scary when you consider the fact that Gary Ridgway isn't even a Muzzel-em !!!
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