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	Green River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Green River in Illinois, a tributary of the Rock River.
		Green River in Kentucky and Tennessee, a tributary of the Ohio River.
		Green River in North Dakota, a tributary of the Heart River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_River (134 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Green River Killer
		The Green River Killer was blamed for the deaths of 49 women between 1982 and 1984, many of them prostitutes and runaways believed to have been taken from the streets in the Puget Sound area and around Portland.
		Green River investigators had questioned Ridgway twice, first in 1984 and again in 1987, when they made him bite down on gauze to give a saliva sample that was preserved until DNA testing technology became available and reliable.
		The Green River first figured in the serial killings case on July 15, 1982, when the fully clothed body of 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield, a junior high school dropout and runaway from Pierce County, was recovered from the stream beside the Meeker Street bridge in Kent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Green-River-Killer (1049 words)

	Gary Ridgway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of their bodies were dumped in and around the Green River, except for the two victims in the Portland area.
		The most notable members of the task force were Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy from 1984 to Bundy's execution in 1989 in the hopes of both developing a profile of the killer and manipulating Bundy into confessing to some unsolved murders he was suspected of.
		He became a suspect in 1983 for the Green River killings, and on April 7, 1987, police took hair and saliva samples that were later subjected to a DNA analysis, which provided the evidence for his arrest warrant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Ridgway (1012 words)

	Green River Killer confesses
		Gary Leon Ridgway today admitted to being the Green River Killer, responsible for the deaths of 48 young women in the longest serial murder investigation in U.S. history.
		Green River Killer Gary Ridgway listens as individual guilty pleas are read on Tuesday, November 5, 2003, in the King County Courthouse in Seattle.
		Some relatives of the Green River Killer's victims wept quietly in the King County courtroom as one by one, Ridgway calmly admitted killing each woman and dumping their bodies off county roads, in rural areas and in the river that gave the case its name.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/146967_greenriver05.html (1090 words)

	Gary Leon Ridgway The Green River Serial Killer - The Crime library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marcia Chapman and Cynthia Hinds, victims of the Green River Killer
		Deborah Bonner, victim of the Green River Killer
		It was not believed that the Green River Killer murdered Wilcox, but the opinion of the investigators has been recently challenged.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial3/greenriver (1194 words)

	CNN.com - 'Green River Killer' sentenced to life in prison - Dec. 19, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, is condemned and forgiven by his victims' families
		Afterward, the mustachioed killer with horn-rimmed glasses, dressed in a white prison suit with a maroon, long-sleeve shirt beneath it, used a tissue to wipe his eyes and nose.
		In his confession, Ridgway said he killed because he hated prostitutes and didn't want to pay them for sex; that he dumped their bodies in the Green River and other inconspicuous parts of King County; and that he killed so many women he had a hard time keeping them straight.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/12/18/green.river.sentencing (988 words)

	Green River Killer News
		Green River Killer News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		A convicted child killer from Everett shouldn't be able dodge a death sentence by arguing that "evolving standards of decency" prohibit his potential execution, a judge ruled Tuesday.
		Within the past week or so, someone found the skull of Green River serial-killer victim Tracy Winston and moved it to an old logging road near Tiger Mountain in Issaquah, where it was found by a hiker Sunday.
	www.topix.net /news/green-river-killer (294 words)

	Green River Killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term "Green River killer" was coined because the first 5 bodies were found in or near Green River in Kent, south King County, WA in 1982.
		Recent investigations indicate the Green River Killer reign of terror might have extended beyond the 1982 -1984 span and could have extended his crimes geographically as far as San Diego, CA, Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC.
		Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer -- For twenty-one years, the killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil.
	www.karisable.com /greenriver.htm (1601 words)

	The Seattle Times: Green River killings
		April 27, 1983: The Green River killer becomes target of largest murder investigation in the country.
		Police say killer may have used a number of locations during the same period to dispose of victims.
		The killer has not been found despite years of investigative work, the creation of the task force, the expenditure of more than $15 million, the use of a $200,000 computer, the accumulation of thousands of suspects and the filling of more than 750 three-ring binders with millions of facts.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /news/local/greenriver/timeline.html (1088 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper, the Green River Killer, and the Police
		An instructive example is the Green River Killer case in the Northwest United States, so named because the first victims attributed to the killer were discovered in and about the Green River.
		The Green River Killer episode is the most sinister and challenging serial femicide case of this century.
		Even if the Jack the Ripper, and Green River Killer investigations had initially possessed the necessary capabilities, their investigations could not have endured the absence of key people, poor public relations, interagency disharmony, bad judgments at any level, missed opportunities, or the exclusion of women from highly dangerous police work.
	www.casebook.org /dissertations/dst-jackgreen.html (2932 words)

	CNN.com - Green River Killer avoids death in plea deal - Nov. 6, 2003
		The Green River Killer's slaying spree began in 1982, when women in the Seattle area, mainly runaways and prostitutes were targeted.
		Six women whose deaths were attributed to the Green River Killer were not among the charges Ridgway admitted to Wednesday.
		Ridgway confessed to killing five women whose names were not among the known Green River victims, and his lawyers said he could face charges in other jurisdictions, as well.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/11/05/green.river.killings (985 words)

	kingcountyjournal.com - Chapter 1: "The Green River Killer": Green River case started as an eerie echo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the investigation dragged on for months and then years, there were no breaks in the case of the Green River killer, and there wouldn't be for years to come.
		Excerpted from ``Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer,'' by the staff of the King County Journal.
		PHOTO: BY Gary Kissel/Journal: Debra York, the aunt of Green River murder victim Cynthia Hinds, is comforted by Deniece Griffin after Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder in the Green River killer case.
	www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/148309 (1170 words)

	G R E E N . R I V E R . G A R Y
		Since the women abducted by the killer were so mobile and were not in regular contact with relatives and friends, sometimes the exact times of their disappearances are hard to pin down.
		The Green River composite describes a white male in his late twenties and early thirties, about five-feet-nine to six-feet tall, with a corpulent build, short curly blond hair, moustache, ruddy complexion, roundish face and acne scars all around it.
		Like other prostitute killers, the Green River suspect believed he was somehow justified in killing, as if the victims brought it on to themselves and he was ridding the world of their corruption.
	www.mayhem.net /Crime/greenriver.html (7481 words)

	Amazon.com: The Search for the Green River Killer: Books: Carlton Smith,Thomas Guillen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer by Robert Keppel
		The identity of the Green River killer was a subject of perennial speculation as I came of age in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s.
		When a suspect was charged in 2001 with killing four Green River victims, police said this suspect was someone they had considered during their earlier investigation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451402391?v=glance (3106 words)

	True Crimes: The Green River Killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Early next year, the 14 detectives and others working on the Green River investigation will move from their current small space at the Regional Justice Center in Kent to a new location, not yet selected, to be closer to the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle.
		Police believed the Green River killings stopped in 1984, but unsolved cases in the early 1990s have led some to cast doubt on that timing.
		Green River Discussion List -- A list to discuss the nations most prolific, unsolved serial killings from the early 1980's in Washington's SeaTac area.
	www.karisable.com /grinv.htm (1654 words)

	TRUTH OR DEATH (Seattle Weekly)
		The decision to include Miley's claim of her brief encounter with Ridgway and evidence from the 45 Green River cases in which he is not charged is one of the main reasons Ridgway's defense could cost King County as much as $4 million to $6 million.
		The killer's depredations were the talk of the Strip, and she almost immediately called the police.
		According to Adamson, one end of the continuum reflected the river victims, by definition the work of the "Green River Killer," while the other end of the continuum was represented by Christensen, who, as many people now know, was found fully dressed and with a wine bottle among other props left by the killer.
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0247/news-smith.html (5266 words)

	Green River Killer Guilty
		Gary Leon Ridgway, 54, known as the Green River Killer, pleaded guilty to 48 murders today in a Seattle, Washington courtroom.
		Law enforcement officials associated 49 killings with the Green River Killer, a name used after the first 5 bodies were discovered in or near the Green River in a one-month time period in July and August of 1982.
		The Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, pleaded guilty to 48 murders, where 48 stands for the inheritance of the Levites, which is an icon of the Promised Land.
	www.biblenews1.com /history3/20031105.htm (854 words)

	Washington man admits 48 murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Uttering the word “guilty” 48 times with chilling calm, former truck painter Gary Leon Ridgway admitted Wednesday that he was the Green River Killer and confessed to murdering four dozen women over the past two decades.
		The Green River Killer’s murderous frenzy began in 1982, targeting women in the Seattle area, most of them runaways and prostitutes.
		In many cases, the killer had sex with his victim and then strangled her.
	msnbc.com /news/989628.asp?0sl=-21 (854 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Green River Killer led police to bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gary Ridgway led detectives to 51 sites that turned up four new sets of human remains in the months since the confessed serial killer began cooperating with investigators, a member of the Green River Task Force said Thursday.
		Three sets of remains were identified as victims of the so-called Green River Killer.
		The Green River Killer's murderous frenzy began in the Seattle area in 1982.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/06/green_river_killer_led_police_to_bodies (410 words)

	Green River Arrest: Time catches up to Ridgway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although psychological profiles indicate that serial killers often continue their attacks until they're caught or die, Kraske points out that serial killers are individuals who think and act differently.
		By then, the Green River Killer had become the target of the largest murder investigation in the country.
		On July 15, 1982, the body of 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield was removed from the Green River, one of 49 known victims of a lone killer — or perhaps several.
	seattlep-i.nwsource.com /local/49114_invest03.shtml (1891 words)

	Green River Killer
		The TV show, Crime Stoppers, aired a segment on the Green River Killer and presented a picture of the killer obtained from a prostitute who had been left for dead.
		On June 29, 2001, the Green River Task Force was reformed.
		NEW INFORMATION ON GREEN RIVER KILLER THIS MAY PROVE TO BE VERY SIGNIFICANT: Like the incident in Vancouver, police are now and have been ignoring the new tips that were sent to their office about a man who should be a 'person of interest' in the matter of the investigation of the Green River Killer.
	www.spartechsoftware.com /dimensions/crime/GreenRiverKiller.htm (1708 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Man 'admits Green River killings'
		The Green River Killer murdered dozens of women, mostly prostitutes from Seattle, Washington, between 1982 and 1988.
		The hunt for the Green River Killer began in August 1982 with the discovery of the bodies of 16-year-old Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, 17, and Marcia Chapman, 31.
		Mr Douglas suggested the killer was a religious man with a deep hatred for prostitutes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3232567.stm (489 words)

	ABC News: 'Green River Killer' May Have Killed Many More
		Gary Ridgway was a longtime truck driver but led a secret life as the Green River Killer.
		He told police he thinks it was 1982 or 1983, but the detectives working the case said it could have been years earlier.
		Finding out who this woman is and exactly when she turned up missing could put a new spin on the Green River murder case, Jensen said.
	abcnews.go.com /US/LegalCenter/story?id=1021470&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (434 words)

	The Green River Killer DNA
		Before long, the "Green River Killer" would be suspected in at least 49 homicides, with no end in sight.
		In the early 80's while performing autopsies on the victims pathologists and medical technicians recovered small amounts of DNA left by the killer.
		Most Green River evidence is still being looked at for suitability for STR typing, identifying the ones with the best chance of yielding DNA.
	www.karisable.com /greenriverdna.htm (1189 words)

	No bail for suspect in 4 Green River killings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King County Sheriff Dave Reichert was careful not to call Ridgway the "Green River Killer," so named because the first victims were found in the South King County river in 1982.
		As the Green River case progressed, witnesses initially pointed police toward Ridgway, a truck painter who has worked at Kenworth for 32 years, because of his pickup truck and because, they said, he was known to cruise spots for prostitutes.
		Investigators continue to explore the possibility that copycat killers may be responsible for some of the slayings attributed to the Green River Killer.
	seattlep-i.nwsource.com /local/48971_green01.shtml (1984 words)

	AlterNet: The Truth About the Green River Killer
		Ridgway was a married man and a father, a white guy from Auburn, Washington who held the same job for 30 years--and who got away with killing one female after another for over 20 years.
		When the nation's worst captured serial killer finally began cooperating with authorities to reveal the locations of his victims, people in the Pacific Northwest breathed a collective sigh of relief.
		Attitudes toward prostitutes -- their very dehumanization -- underlies the Green River Killer case, and yet prostitutes are the aspect of this story that has been least discussed.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17171 (1577 words)

	Gary Leon Ridgway
		In fact he and Ted shared many of the same haunts; one of Ridgway's pursuers, Keppel, feels that jealousy may be the motivation that brought Bundy's cooperation in the hunt for the Green River Killer.
		A man discoveres prostitute Deborah Lynn Bonner, age 23, floating in the Green River.
		Gary Leon Ridgway arrested for four of the Green River murders.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/serial-killers/gary-leon-ridgway (427 words)

	Ann Rule's Official Home Page
		Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected.
		Following the winter 2003 sentencing of the Green River serial killer, Gary Ridgway, perennial true-crime bestseller Rule (Heart Full of Lies, etc.) has finally completed her long-awaited definitive narrative of the brutal and senseless crimes that haunted the Seattle area for decades.
		Rule once again validates her standing as one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of modern serial murder, calling upon her experience as a former police officer and a civilian adviser to the VICAP Task Force to present a nuanced and easily comprehensible account of the hunt for the man responsible for at least 48 killings.
	www.annrules.com (3282 words)

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