Gary Ridgway was convicted of killing 49 prostitutes and runaways in the 1980's and 1990's and is currently serving his 49 life sentences (1,225 years). The Seattle truck painter claims to have murdered close to 80 bodies but at other times said he had lost count, now he is very open about the killings and has tried to recover the location of some bodies for investigators to try to confirm them. Some people believe the number to be 100+ bodies. Only 48 of the victims family's ever got closure as the rest of the victims murdered by Gary Ridgway were either never found or were not able to be identified.
Task Force Victims List:
Ridgway is suspected of, but was never charged with the murder of six victims who were originally attributed the police's original list of Green River murders. In each of these individual cases, Gary Ridgway has not confessed to killing these women, nor can the police obtain enough evidence to try him in court. Also, many of the bodies can not be identified or found, which gets complicated in court, even if the police have a confession from Ridgeway.
Task Force Victims List:
Ridgway is suspected of, but was never charged with the murder of six victims who were originally attributed the police's original list of Green River murders. In each of these individual cases, Gary Ridgway has not confessed to killing these women, nor can the police obtain enough evidence to try him in court. Also, many of the bodies can not be identified or found, which gets complicated in court, even if the police have a confession from Ridgeway.