In November, 2001 King County Sheriff Dave Reichert announce the arrest of Gary Ridgway after DNA tests link him to three murders. On December 15th 2001 Reichert assemble eleven investigators to work full-time on establishing evidence against Ridgway. December 2001 Gary Ridgway was formally charged with the murders of four women. December 18th 2001
(SC4) After that short spree, Woodfield traveled to southern Orgeron on January 26 and 29 and committed robberies in Eugene, Medford, and Grant Pass. Two women had also been assaulted by the robber (Randall Woodfield). A couple of days went by and Woodfield struck again. On February 3 in Mountain Gate, California, a mother and her daughter were found, both shot in the head and the daughter had been sexually assaulted. The mother’s name was Donna Eckard.
Codd were reported missing on March 15th, 2015 when their family could not get ahold of them for some time. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office went to the Codd’s home to complete a welfare check, but they instead found the home empty and signs of foul play. The Detective Division was called and opened a missing person's case. Later that day, the Sheriff’s office received a report of suspicious activity on Donna drive in Candler, a small town west of Asheville. When deputies responded, items belonging to the Codd’s were found and Robert Jason Owens was identified as the person dumping those items.
Those weren’t his only brushes with the law. It turned out the he was a prime suspect when the first bodies found and was brought in for questioning. In 1985, he was accused him of grabbing from behind and putting her in a choke-hold. While as far back as 1982 and 1983, a witness saw one of the victims, Marie M. Malvar, get into his car.
There have been other bodies found with a similar elements to his signature but have yet to be linked to him. One of the bodies found is Rebecca Marrero, who disappeared on December 3, 1982 and was found where one of the Green River’s victims, Marie Malvar, was found. If Rebecca Marrero was one of his victims then she would be his forty-ninth. Gary Ridgway was always a suspect for the Green River killings but when they took him in for a polygraph he passed it.
His final conviction was on April 7, 2022 and he received four life sentences. The Killer in the Valley is currently unknown, but the investigators are very close to solving it. The first killing happened on June 26, 1981, when a twenty-two year old woman named Kristin David vanished whilst riding on her bike from Moscow to Lewiston idaho. Her body would later be found by local fishermen in three separate garbage bags in a lake. The next victim was a twelve year old girl named Christina White.
Ridgway admitted to killing because he didn't want to pay the prostitute and he considered it a career. He also claimed choking his victims was a reward to him. In the fall of 2002, Ridgway filed for divorce against his third wife. One man, who’s daughter was murder by Ridgway, stood up during his trial and told Ridgway he forgave him sending Ridgeway into tears. He serves forty-eight consecutive sentence in Washington State Penitentiary without the possibility of parole.
When two more bodies continued the killing spree in the spring of 1980 and a 7-year-old girl had been reported missing, the FBI was called in and a profiler was assigned to work on the case as well. After this the killer changed his MO dumping the bodies into the Chattahoochee River and this allowed for the search to become confined to the bridges in the area that went across the
Vincow was asleep in her Los Angeles home on the night of June 28, 1984, when Ramirez would sneak through her window, she’d left open. Ramirez then found Vincow and repeatedly stabbed her before slicing her throat. Throughout most of the attack, Vincow had been screaming, yet not even one of her neighbors would call the police. After cleaning up some of the blood splatter from the attack, Ramirez would ransack the house and steal what he thought was valuable. Vincows body wouldn’t be found until later that day when her son came to visit, but there was no sign or trace of who her killer was.
Richard Mallory: 51 year old electronics shop owner, it is believed he was killed November 30, 1989 and his body was found December 13, 1989, he had been shot three times 2. David Spears: 43 year old heavy machinery operator, went missing May 19, 1990 and was found June 1, 1990, he had been shot six times 3. Charles Carskaddon: 40 year old rodeo worker, found May 31, 1990, he had been shot nine times 4. Peter Siems: 65 year old retired merchant seaman, his car was found on July 4, 1990 after Aileen and her girlfriend wrecked and abandoned it, his body was never found 5. Troy Burress: 50 year old delivery driver, found on July 30, 1990, he had been shot
Thus giving him the infamous name the Green River Killer. Gary didn't want to be far from his victims' bodies. “His method of perpetrating these crimes involved him strangling the victim, dumping their body in Washington's Green River, and sometimes returning to the scene to perform sexual intercourse.” (Quinitchett, 2022) Mr. Ridgway wanted to be within the perfect proximity of his crimes.
Introduction/Methodology This paper is a study of the infamous serial killer, Garry Ridgway, the Green River Killer. Garry Ridgway was a killer in the Seattle area who killed a confirmed forty-eight people and was sentenced to life in prison. His life was spared only because he accepted a plea bargain.
Their names were Betty Lou Jensen, age 16, and David Arthur Faraday, age 17. They were killed the same night on December 20, 1968 on Lake Herman Road within the city limits of Benicia. The next Victims were Cecilia Ann Shepard, age 22, and Bryan Calvin Hartnell, age 20. They were stabbed the same night on September 27, 1969 in Nappa County. Nappa County is now referred to as “Zodiac Island”.
The Evidence Victims In this case, there were three total victims between the ages of eleven to thirteen, all of which being boys. While jogging near his home in Portland, Maine, eleven-year-old Richard Stetson went missing. During his newspaper route, thirteen-year-old Danny Joe Eberle vanished in the early hours
He was a frequent customer of prostitutes. He began to murdering women in 1982, when young runaways and prostitutes began to disappearing from state route 99 in south king county, Washington. He brought many of them to his house and strangled them, then left them in woodsy, remote sites. The first few bodies turned up along the now notorious green river. The green river
