Gary Ridgway’s first charge was on killing Wendy Coffield. She was sixteen years old, living with a foster family. She disappeared on July,1982, and found by two young boys, floating in the the water of the Green River. An autopsy confirmed she was strangled to her death. Debra Bonner was the next victim. She was also found in the green river. Ridgway was addicted to killing and dumping the bodies in the river. His other victims began to blur together, in a short time period he would kill so many women. He once killed six girls in a four week period. He thought of them as garbage and would cover there bodies with tree branches and commented “they are garbage and should be covered up with garbage.” He killed thirteen women in the year of 1982.