He did have some close calls. In 1983, a victim named Maria was taken off the strip where her boyfriend saw her being taken. The boyfriend followed the pickup truck, yet the truck got away from him(Harthorne, 2013). The police questioned Gary Ridgway because the boyfriend recognized it to be his truck. Gary Ridgway convinced the police that it was not his truck. The police were stuck and had no good suspects. In 2001, Ridgway was arrested for loitering around prostitutions. This incident, however, did not make him a suspect in the Green River case. Later in the case, Ridgway passed a lie detector test, taking him off the suspect list. A polygraph is based on the guilt of committing the crime, however, Ridgeway he did not have any guilt. Police