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Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer or the Green River Strangler, is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering forty-nine women between 1982 and 1998 in the northwestern
Ridgway in 2024
Ridgway in 1982
1983 sketch of the suspected killer
Washington State Penitentiary is a Washington State Department of Corrections men's prison located in Walla Walla, Washington. With an operating capacity of 2,439, it is the third largest prison in th
Gary Ridgway
…but claimed he began burying the later victims so that he could resist the urge to commit necrophilia. Ridgway was placed in solitary confinement at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in January 2004. On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the USP Florence High, a high-security federal prison east of Cañon City, Colorado…
Entrance to Washington State Penitentiary grounds