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.
Under our system, he’ll prolly be out in 10 years.