Suspected 'Green River Killer' to Plead Guilty

Foxnews ^ | 11-05-03

[Indy Pendance]

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[Egon]

Sounds like he got the good end of that deal. If anyone deserves the death penalty, this guy does. Put him out of our misery.

[Jack Black]

Oregon may still be able to try and fry 'em for two murders he is not confessing to that he committed in Oregon. Hope they go for it.

[bigfootbob]

Not as good as the death penalty opponents. This deal virtually ends capital punishment in Washington State. If we won't execute this prolific killer, we won't execute anyone. Every trial attorney in Washington will be making that claim. The prosecutor of this County is suppose to be a Republican.

[Egon]

Not as good as the death penalty opponents.

Excellent point.

[martin_fierro]

I keep confusing the Green River killings with the Hillside Strangler.

[nuffsenuff]

The only deal this guy should have gotten was this:

Confess to all the killings, provide proof, and you get the needle.

Play this game and we'll use the electric chair at half strength so that we'll have to zap you about a dozen times before you die.

That's it. Anything else is an injustice.

[RetiredArmy]

He actually told them about, I think it was 6 murders, that he did that they did not chalk up to his actions. He has led them to several other remains and sites where he did his murders. I think this was an attempt to find closure to this case, solving all these murders and missing women, that led them to do this. It has already cost millions on the investigation just since his arrest and they said it would cost maybe something like $15 more million to complete the case. I think all that entered into it somewhat. But, I would have tried him and got the death penalty myself. But, this goodie two shoes state can not chalk one up to the anti-death penalty, which the liberals are, and maybe do away with it. They said on the news today that this case will be brought up in every death penalty case in the nation from now on.

[cherry]

Let's face it....

no death can give solace to the victims families....

the death penalty allows for many years with food, water, housing, entertainment, media interviews....

in short....being the center of attention for all those years is just what these devils crave.( "nothing" men like Ridgeway only reach any prominence by the evil that they do..in the dark, against defenseless women...I guess that is what he considered manhood)...

torture and then death is really the only way to really reward them but I guess that would be so politically incorrect...

[CWOJackson]

Sheriff Dave Reichert is closer to this case then almost anyone. He was the original investigator for the first murders and has been pursuing the killer almost his entire professional life.

Sheriff Reichert knows many of the victim's families personally and has shed many tears with them over the years. This case is very personal to him.

Anyone from the King County (Seattle), Washington area can testify that there is no finer Sheriff then Dave Reichert; Christian, family man, conservative. I respect him as well as his knowledge about this case.

He supports this plea bargain and I have to agree. Because of the plea bargain Ridgeway has identified six more victims, one from just 1998, that were unknown. That is six more families who have been able to close this chapter in their grief.

As for this effectively ending the death penalty in Washington, very few people here actually believe that.

[pepperhead]

If one of my family members was a victim of this monster I wouldn't be satisfied with life in prison. Here is to hoping this guy gets the Dalmer treatment in prison.

[Humidston]

After judges in Wisconsin filing to block partial birth abortion today, I think the defense for the Green River murderer should have pled that he only committed LATE TERM ABORTIONS.

He'd assuredly be found innocent!

/extreme sarcasm

[Bonaparte]

Since DP reinstatement, Washington has executed only 3. The rest die of old age on death row.

The state of Washington got a good deal here. No way will that state execute anybody unless they're forced.

[Bonaparte]

"...ending the death penalty in Washington..."

See post 13. Lots of states have the DP on the books, but few actually follow their own law. In actual practice, there is no DP in Washington state or in any other dem-controlled state.

[deJaz]

Why should they after all they probably know that he won't survive long in jail and it won't cost the goverment a dime to toast him.At least the families of the victims know what happened to their loved ones know matter the outcome.

[bigfootbob]

"No way will that state execute anybody unless they're forced."

True :(

[hunter112]

Since DP reinstatement, Washington has executed only 3.

Two of them were "volunteers", in other words, they gave up their appeal rights. The remaining one was the most heinous, he raped a woman by holding her infant daughter at knifepoint. After his arrest, a neighbor came forward and testified against him. While in prison, the rapist gave "sexual favors" to a male prison librarian, who removed negative writeups from his prison file, making him eligible for work release a mere few years after the crime. The first chance he got, he went back to the small town, and severed the heads of all three victims with a knife, the mother, the daughter and the neighbor. It was so horrific a crime, that even the weenie Clymers who are anti-death penalty couldn't find too much good to say about him.

And after the Ridgway deal, even he wouldn't have gotten the death penalty. I have lived in WA state since 1969, and even when we went pro-abortion in two public votes, I wasn't as ashamed to be a citizen of this god-forsaken state as I am today. This proves beyond a doubt that if a criminal is smarter than millions of dollars worth of investigation by a bunch of donut-eaters, he can get away with anything. This Clymer was so smug that he sqaundered away the nearly twenty years that he could have accumulated money in a Swiss bank account, and a fake identity, and just disappeared. He knew that the clowns investigating him made the Keystone Kops look like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

[hunter112]

Why should they after all they probably know that he won't survive long in jail and it won't cost the goverment a dime to toast him.

Sorry, but you don't know this state. Right now, he's staying in a nice apartment in the headquarters of the Green River task force, a monumental waste of money if there ever was one. He'll get protected custody in the system, and will eagerly look forward to reading Ann Rule's book on him, when it comes out. Hell, he'll even autograph copies of it for fellow inmates, who will admire him for beating the system.

Sure, I hope he gets a big black "roommate" whose sister was a prostitute, but it ain't gonna happen.

[HairOfTheDog]

This is amazing for us locals.... This case was going on back as far as I have memory. I never thought they'd solve it. Kudos to whoever did keep working it and got this confession.

The way we do executions in this state, I don't even care if he won't be on death row. There is little relief or satisfaction in a possible execution 20 years from now when his appeals run out. Just lock him up.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sheriff Reichert knows many of the victim's families personally and has shed many tears with them over the years. This case is very personal to him.

Kudos to him.