Posted on 09/18/2013 5:07:52 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Seattle's Green River killer confesses to slaying nearly DOUBLE the 49 women he's convicted of killing in first ever interview
A Seattle-area truck painter who was unmasked as the Green River serial killer has claimed he murdered up to 80 women over two decades - nearly double the number he was convicted of killing.
Gary Ridgway is currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences in a Washington state prison.
But in a series of interviews conducted over the past five months, he is now claiming there are significantly more victims and he says he is coming clean to help bring closure to their families.
Scroll down for video 'The total number [of victims] is 75 to 80,' Ridgway told KOMO reporter Charlie Harger.
Ridgway told police of his crimes following his 2001 arrest and subsequent confession.
He admitted that he picked up prostitutes and teenage runaways throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Washington's King County, strangled them during sex and dumped their bodies in wastelands near King County's 65-mile long Green River.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
thats one every 3 months for 20 years (that he is admitting to)
This chump is the ultimate poster child, for the death penalty.
Well, originally the terms of his plea deal that spared him death row involved him coming clean about all his victims. I would think that this would invalidate that deal.
Hope he gets help for his problem. Therapy. Counseling. Intense discussion of his unresolved issues. Should help him to re-enter society at a later date...Sarcasm tag....
Sounds like he’s getting bored and wants a few road trips. You know, taken out somewhere and looking around, claiming to have dumped a body here or there. Lunch from a fast food joint. Fresh air and sunshine. Being the center of attention.
Worked for Henry Lee Lucas.
If you check out his Wikipedia entry, in the box on the right-hand side of the screen, it says;
Convicted of 49, confessed to at least 71, presumed to be 90+
That ‘presumption’ comes from law enforcement sources. Ridgway himself said he pretty much lost count of how many he’d killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
Currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences ... but there’s STILL a chance he could be released before he dies.
Road trips and Henry Lee Lucas were exactly what I was thinking.
Ridgway was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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 sentences.
He’ll never be a free man ever again.
All it would take is another judge deciding to overrule the first one.
Good point. I wonder...
Why are interviews such as this allowed?
That’s a remote possibility; another judge would have to overturn the actual plea-bargain Ridgway signed in order to get the life without parole sentence. The prosecutor was open to a death penalty trial, but Ridgway took the plea bargain instead.
From what I’ve read in follow-ups, Ridgway hasn’t fought his sentence in any way, shape or form.
Granted, any judge - or even a governor - can overturn a death penalty case, and look at the recent example of Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, who died of natural causes while on Death Row in San Quentin.
I guess the prosecutor in the Ridgway case had his reasons. In any event, the only place Ridgway will be hunting hookers anytime soon is in whatever twisted dreams he may have.
Under our system, he’ll prolly be out in 10 years.
Piker. No doubt Seattle area mass murder centers known as “abortion clinics” murder at least that many every single day of the week.
If he ever got released, I wonder how many of his victim's family members would meet him at the gate?
It had to do with him admitting which missing girls he had killed, and leading investigators to their remains to give greiving families some closure.
That is only King County. No telling how many in other counties but he doesn’t want new charges.
Not in Washington where the politicians love and protect their criminals.
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