garebear

By nathan.capps@stu.boone.kyschools.us

  • Gary Ridgway

    Gary Leon Ridgway is born

  • Debra Estes, 15

    Filed a report with the police stating a man in a blue and white pick-up truck who offered her a lift but then pulled a pistol and forced her to give him oral sex.

  • Amina Agisheff, 36

    First victim on record

  • Wendy Coffield, 16

    Second victim on record

  • Opal Mills, 16, Cynthia Hinds, 17 and Marcia Chapman, 31

    Bodies are discovered

  • Carol Ann Christensen

    The body is found with her head covered by a brown paper bag. When removed, a fish sits arranged on her neck. DNA traces on her body will eventually tie Ridgway to her killing.

  • Carrie Rois, 15

  • Ridgway takes a polygraph test and passes

    He says later he passed it by simply relaxing.

  • DNA matching

    Detective Dave Reichert is informed that Ridgway’s DNA matches that found on the bodies of the Green River Killer

  • Ridgway is arrested

  • Conviction

    Ridgway’s formally charged with the deaths of four women.

  • Marie Malvar

    She was found arguing with Gary, when police later question him, he persuades them he’s never met her. Her body will not be found till 2003.

  • Court hearing

    Ridgway avoids the death penalty by confessing to the murder of 48 women.

  • Sentencing

    Ridgway is sentenced to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole.

  • Another body found

    Ridgway is charged with a 49th murder, that of 20 year old Rebecca Marrero in 1982, a mother who worked as a prostitute to support her family.