BONES FOUND ON HILLSIDE On Dec. 30, 1985, Auburn city workers investigating a vehicle that crashed down an embankment found human bones, deputies said. The workers found three sets of skeletal remains on the hillside, one which belonged to Kimi-Kai Pitsor. Her skull had previously been found in the area two years earlier. Investigators were unable to identify the other sets of human remains and named them Jane Doe “B16” and Jane Doe “B17.” The bones belonging to Jane Doe “B16” were identified in 2012 as Sandra Majors, deputies said. All three women were linked to Ridgway and identified as his victims, even though two bodies were unidentified, deputies said. Ridgway, in 2002, was able to tell authorities where the bodies were placed, “which was consistent with the way the remains were found,” connecting him to their deaths, deputies said. FORENSIC GENETIC GENEALOGY USED TO ID REMAINS In 2003, Ridgway was convicted and sentenced in the killings of 48 women in King County between 1982 and 1998. He was sentenced on an additional aggravated murder charge in 2011, authorities said. Then, more recently, a DNA profile was created from the remains of Jane Doe “B17”, and forensic genetic genealogy was used to find a relative, deputies said. Razpotnik’s mother submitted a DNA sample, and investigators confirmed the remains belonged to the missing teen. Ridgway is serving 49 consecutive life sentences at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He was not given the death penalty because he agreed to plead guilty and give information to any future cases in King County, authorities said.
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Ridgeway is probably on Inslee’s short list for pardon.
I mean, it’s not like he killed 50 women or something . . .