Inside the Mind of Gary Ridgway

Gary Ridgway – dubbed the Green River Killer by the media before his identity was known, after five victims found in the Green River – terrorized the Seattle region of the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s, abducting and killing young women. He was arrested in 2001 and eventually pleaded guilty to forty-nine murders, which makes him the second most prolific serial killer in United States history (based on confirmed murders), though he claims to have killed eighty-five (there is at least one live investigation which implicates Ridgway). He is currently in Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, serving forty-nine consecutive life sentences.

Clark shows how Gary Ridgway became known as the Green River Killer within King county in Washington state. He goes on to reveal Ridgway’s connection to many more missing people and bodies found in Pierce and other Washington counties, as well as over the border in Portland, Oregon, and as far away as Colorado, as he became an interstate killer.

All of Ridgway’s confirmed victims were killed within King county, Washington, where a plea bargain saved him from execution within that county. Since then and within the past few years, GEDMATCH DNA has identified some of the Jane Doe cases connected with Ridgway. These show clearly that Ridgway killed over a far wider area, including in Snohomish county to the north and Pierce and Lewis counties to the south, as well as over the border in Portland, in Multomah county in Oregon and even further to the south-east in Windy Ridge and Denver, Colorado, 1,300 miles from SeaTac.

Clark has compiled an extensive list of other missing persons and human remains found, mainly within King and Pierce counties, which fit Ridgway’s active timeline and victimology, which he feels should be reinvestigated.