Green River Killer

 Gary Leon Ridgway is otherwise known as the Green River Killer.  Gary was a man who went door to door, talking to people about his Pentecostal faith. He had been married twice, however, both marriages were quickly ruined.

In a period of less than three years in the 1980s, the GRK murdered about 50 women.  The majority of the victims happened to be either prostitutes or teen runaways that were picked up along Route 99, and then strangled.

Gary was arrested twice, once in 1982 and then once in 2001, for charges that related to prostitution. In 1983, he was a suspect in the killings, however the next year, he passed a lie detector test.  DNA evidence eventually gave proof for the warrant.

It was in November of 2001 that Gary was arrested on suspicion of killing four women – Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Christensen.

Two years later, Gary entered a guilty plea to more than 45 charges of aggravated first degree murder. He had a plea bargain, so he could not be executed for the murders. Gary Ridgway was sentenced to 48 life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole.

Ridgway has apparently confessed to more confirmed murders than any other American serial killer, and is currently incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary.

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