Gary Ridgway: The Story Of The Green River Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers | Real Crime
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- The case of serial killer Gary Ridgway, who has confessed to murdering a staggering 71 teenage girls and women across Washington state through the 1980s and 1990s.
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I went to a community college in Seattle that had a mentorship program for those interested in law. Long story short, I got to have lunch with the King County Superior Court judge Richard Jones, the judge who presided over the Ridgway trial. I asked him why Gary Ridgway was not sentenced to death over his murders. The judge said family members of victims who hadn't been found wanted to keep Gary Ridgway alive in the hopes he would reveal the location of their bodies.
shitty police work, only took them 20 years
Exactly why
@@justin-nf3ep ; .. Time-Iapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach puuutrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries.. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html .. Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentiIs beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. ToiIet ✅❤️💩🚽😉 neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc..
Part of the plea bargain was for Ridgeway to disclose the locations of the bodies. The narrator explained that part!
@@cartimandua_ and he still has refused to tell them where all the victims are.
This narrator is no doubt going all in on the voice.
Peter Thomas was the absolute best narrator.
The host of “Murder Maps’” -Nicholas Day 🫣
Yeah lol. I wish I knew about that in school. I'm 47 and narrative was not introduced to me. I can do this though lol ghetto style
Seriously so unnecessary. 😂
i find myself on his channel all the time specifically because i love his narration
I truly believe that he placed the fish and sausage on Marie so that a wild animal would eat her to destroy the evidence.
That sounds about right. The wine would eventually start to ferment further in the sun, which would make a sweet scent travel pretty far. It's like how you alternate two types of baits for cockroaches - protein & sugar.
No I actually fucking think he was doing some dumb ass ritual - MARIE is the ONLY VICTIM HERE prostitutes don't count.
I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. I love true crime stories. I'm JUST watching this the first time. This story hits close to home for me. I saw my first composite sketch when I was 8 and in 3rd grade. That SCARED the crap out of me. Then, the "big scraggly hair" sketch of him, in 1983, scared me to death, until 2003, when it was revealed who he really was! I thought to myself, "THIS is the man, whose sketch scared me for 2 decades, and had me afraid of the dark?"
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Terrible that these young girls have to go through sexual abuse by sometimes their own family. Hard to truly put myself in these young woman’s shoes. God bless those like Debra
I have just decided to write to Ridgeway (from Canada), to explain to him that these poor girls needed to eat, had been abused, and that the people responsible for their predicament were THE JOHNS
AND NOT TO GIRLS!!!😠
Wish me luck.
I wonder if he'll answer...
Cheers!
she literally chose to go be a disgusting prostitute after that?? why the hell would you ever feel bad for someone so repulsive..
@@abelis644, don't be so naive....he is a serial killer you think anything you say will change his mindset....delusional much.
leads to nothing good
@@abelis644 isn't he dead?
Is it a coincidence that all serial killers have dominating abusive mothers?
No. Most hve green/hazel eyes…Ive wondered abt that
That would have causal effect relationship.
I’ll never forget the feeling this guy gave me. That stranger danger adrenaline rush. I went to high school in Kent Washington. I almost always walked to school. This killer offered me a ride one day. He came up behind me in his yellow tan truck, and passed me. He pulled over into a gravel driveway, turned around and came back. Luckily some kids I knew were almost to me, and yelled for me to wait-and he left.
My friends had noticed that my skirt was caught up behind me under my book bag and had been trying to catch up to me to let me know. I was wearing tights but my backside was exposed. So scary. My friends and family always went on inner tubes and canoes down the green river...we were at a popular picnic area one day when they found one of his victims. When they caught him-I recognized him immediately as the man who was so insistent on giving me a ride in 1987. 😬
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You were one lucky girl.
Omg that’s absolutely terrifying. I can’t imagine how much that still effects you! Thanks for sharing & God was on your side that day! 🙏🏼
It's doubtful that he would've killed you. He preyed on prostitutes because, sadly society really doesn't care about them and nobody makes a big stink when one (or 50) turns up dead in a ditch. When a little girl turns up in a ditch, the whole world cares. He would've gotten caught pretty quickly if he killed you, and he knew that.
@@MattyIcecubes that’s entirely wrong. MOST of his victims were TEENS! She felt something wrong & in hindsight was proven correct. Given the opportunity this women very likely could have been another one of his victims.
Did you go to the police and tell them ?
I met him while he was at his job during the summer of'87 or'88. I was waiting for my truck to get out of the truck shop next door getting the reefer unit repaired. He may have been unassuming and talkative to some but I had a bad feeling about him. He drove up to me driving a forklift. He had to leave a couple times to do something. I was new to the area and because we weren't far from the Green River I brought up the Green River Killer his demeanor changed and he started getting defensive and blaming the victims for their plight. The discussion bothered me enough that I considered calling the police. I didn't because I didn't know how to explain my gut feeling. It's bothered me ever since. I didn't know who he was for years only that he had been caught until I randomly picked up the book Riverman partly because it featured Ted Bundy. I flipped open the book to his picture. I hadn't recognized him in news photos because he had long hair in them. One photo in the book shows shorter hair and combed in a fifties early sixties hair that I recognized instantly. I had only lived in King County for almost three years before moving back to my home state. Don't know if a phone call to the police would have made a difference. If you see something or have a bad feeling trust your instincts.
I smell BS. He worked at the Kenworth Truck plant as an assembly line painter. The type of work that took place deep in the bowels of the plant. The Kenworth truck factory wouldn’t be working on your Carrier or Thermo King reefer, and the factory doesn’t have the type of frontage for you to have your truck being worked on at another business while you stroll into a paccar plant and casually talk to a serial killer.
@@WOT881 i had a small box delivery reefer about 14 ft. Long and I was next to where I think he worked. I was outside near where my van reefer unit was being worked on . I didn't move out of sight of the van. I don't have a clue what his work schedule was he just came by driving a forklift. Didn't recognize him when he got arrested and on TV not until I saw a picture of him taken around that time.
@@robdavidson4945 Bullshit!
@@robdavidson4945 Ignore the know it all troll.
@@willgetbettereventually124 no worries it's not a defining moment in the great scheme of life. It's at moments like this that I turn to the words of the great Bart Simpson (paraphrasing) "He wasn't there, he didn't see it, he can't prove a thing." Life goes on.
That river is haunted AF
I'd like to congratulate the narrator for battling through the traumatic brain embolism he was clearly experiencing while delivering his lines.
I know , he bravely makes an artistic choice to do away with any superfluous notion of light and shade and opts to stay on the one very shouty note throughout. From the first sentence he's completely overwrought, leaves himself nowhere to go , and so remains on the verge of absolute hysteria throughout. The facts of this bleak story are already dispiriting enough without him bellowing them at the audience. He also sounds as if he has been personally affronted by Gary Ridgeways character and questionable life choices.
Think I may have caught mild PTSD from the alarmingly over the top and frankly beserk narration. It can cause temporary spelling blackouts and a jittery , skittish desire to hit the Send button way too early. Anyways , I'm off for my tea . All this mass murdering is giving me a right old headache , I can tell you .
So, Serial Killers, God bless them ,and Save them . We'd be lost without them. They add immeasurably to the general gaiety of the nation. The Seventies now does seem like the sweet spot for any passing deranged sociopath who enjoyed murdering innocent people , almost like it was a questionable yet still a thoroughly absorbing hobby. Serial killing certainly wasnt for slackers. This wasnt something weekend amateurs could just dabble in . John Wayne Gacy , Gary Ridgeway , and of course their very own poster boy ... Sir Ted Bundy . They all have in common a limitless ,unflagging, and ferocious drive. They are totally commited to the project and seem to have been given complete creative control by the studio.
Flippin ' result !!
@@JayJay-xd5lm English narrators are genuinely very good at telling true murder stories even when doing American ones there usually subtle concise and very good at storytelling
@@tonydoherty2190 Hi only just seen your reply(!) I totally agree with you. They are usually models of restraint . Naturally conveying a sense of gravitas even in a sensational , lurid case like Gary Ridgeway's . Fred Dineage blows this notion out of the water forging heedlessly ahead and thus proceeding to let the side down. I'm assuming you're not from England, I don't know. It's just we grew up with this guy and he'd always got on my nerves. We used to do impersonations of him, all the time. God bless him, though, he really goes beyond parody with this particular documentary. To paraphrase Shakespeare, another Great Englishman " Hell hath made its masterpiece ...and now Fred Dineage is let out ! " This is one of the first comments I've actually ever made ,after a friend showed me recently, so I was chuffed to get a reply. Actually for all I know you're from London and living in the next street, so none of this is particularly relevant!.
@@JayJay-xd5lm I am from England
He had incredibly high numbers compared to other killers when you look at Ridgeway you're looking at one of the top 3 worst serial killers of all time when it comes to confirmed victims....
Yeah but Jordan went 6-0 in the finals.
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He killed prostitutes though, that's cheating. He couldn't compete with tougher and more competitive killers like Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, or Kuemper
@@southsider3542 yeah your right different eras. Stats can be deceiving. Bundy was also known for being clutch.
Sam little I think has the most, John Wayne Gacy too
I liked the portrayal of him at work as the professional truck painter, shaking a rattle-can.
Yeh I thought that
“Professional” graffiti truck painter
I watched the sentencing on television in high school, something we in Canada don’t actually get to do with our own killers, just because I lived in BC at the time and our American network affiliates were out of King County. [Shout out from Canada to KIRO].
And later, watching the victim impact statements, was probably the most powerful of all. I’ll never forget the one big, white-bearded Santa Claus looking father of one of the victims who said he forgave him.
♥️I think it’s important to be open to the public about what happens in the courthouse. That way the public can be sure our nation is doing its job fairly, correctly and without bias. Still doesn’t happen like we would want be at least we can see what happens and fight the best we can for those we feel don’t get justice, or wrongly convicted, or wrongly let off, die to connections, etc. I hope one day all nations can see what happens in their courtrooms. Peace from the beautiful Rockies in Colorado!
yes and Gary pretended to cry
Canadian also.🇨🇦💖
I love watching Russell Williams' interrogation.
We have stellar detectives.
@@royharper2003 crocodile tears
Wow! And I thought I was a compassionate person.
Ridgeway confessed to killing 71 women but was only convicted of 49. In recent years he has admitted to killing as many as 80 victims in King County alone, but is suspected of killing up to 90 to 100 victims based on cases of missing women found in neighboring Oregon which Ridgeway will not admit to because Oregon still has the death penalty, although there has been a moratorium on it for some years now.
And that many were Native women. Also that he dumped many bodies on a reservation
he probably lost count
He’s too scared to die cuz he knows if there’s hell he’s going. Hopefully he’s reminded of that in prison. Lots of “born agains” in there especially since there’s not much else to latch into to kill the boredom. But hopefully he’s got a couple religious neighbors to remind him he’s got an eternity in hell so he better take his vitamins and walk carefully if he wants to live as long as possible. It’s nice knowing his only choices in life are prison and death.
He may have also traveled to Vancouver but with Pickton killing around the same time, it's hard to tell, which in itself is sickening
@@justin-nf3ep No, he found Jesus and repented so he will go to heaven. Isn't that what you all believe?
What is not told in this doc is that the 1st cop sent to talk to him was a friend of his.
My mother was so worried about this killer when i was growing up. Turned out that we lived less than a half a mile from him. I use to think ive probably been in the presence of the killer at some point. And sure enough that hunch was right, a 711 he frequented nefore after work was the same store we went to.
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U probably walked right past him
Oh, man!
I worked in a small restaurant in Renton and Ridgway would come in for lunch once in a while. Quiet guy, I would never have suspected him, but he did seem a bit odd.
In what way did he seem odd?
evil of banality,ordinarity that scared me as hell
@@TeaCup1940 probably quiet and anti social
Something about that gives me the creeps. He should of had the death penalty immediately! fuck these victims no justice is served! this is disgusting and fuck prostitutes don't feel sorry for them We don't want prostitutes in our town
Rest In Peace to all the victims
Rip
Nobody cares about filthy disease infestive hookers. That's why he could remove them for 19 years. He should have gotten a salary, not a sentence.
How terrible it is that the 15 year old girl named Debra was abused by her own biological father, then ran away from home and was killed by the green river killer
Sadly many of his victims were in simila situation. This man is a demon
"Religion, psychology, medications, none of them have proven more powerful than the urge to kill in a serial killer". Well that's kind of frightening. I heard once that, I think it was Confucius - he said "Long have I traveled and yet I have not met one man that attends to his virtues more than his sex drive." Or something along those lines.
I really enjoy this channel.....always very interesting.. Thank you...keep up the good work. Your voice fits these videos perfect. ❤️🙋🌹
Thank you for humanizing the victims, sex workers are often seen as “less than dead” and so it was nice to see their family members being interviewed about who their loved one was as a person
I love sex workers
They romanticized the Ridgeway for most of this episode.
It’s sick.
Notice how many men had job security from this guy that preyed on women.
This is a theme in our society.
They just lost there way I agree with you
I'm a sex worker. I'm also a daughter, a successful equestrian, a college graduate, and a lovely human person. We're not just trash compared to other people. I had trauma in my childhood. I connected with alcohol and drugs. I self medicated my pain. I became a lost soul.
@@elizabethferrari1346 ... Time-Iapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach puuutrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries.. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html .. Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentiIs beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. ToiIet ✅❤️💩🚽😉 neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc..
I worked with a guy and I always joked how he looked just like Gary.He told me his wife had told him the same thing. 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀
Ann Rule has a book called the green river, running red. It is well written and gives the story of the victims and Ridgway Only 5 bodies were put in the river, all other victims were found or taken outside of Seattle. Recommend read. These young ladies didn't deserve this and there are more then 49 victims.
Thanks for the Rec. sounds very interesting.
75ish victims.
And of course most weren't put in the river. Hard to do his necrophilia when they're in the river.
A favorite true crime book of mine.
they need to wait the river gets dry to find more bodies
Ah, yes I remember this well! Native Seattlelite here. To have Bundy and Ridgway operating at the same time during my 20's and 30's was a nightmare. You didn't know if you were dating the next serial killer or not.
True
You date dudes?
@@P9rkour90 yea
@@P9rkour90 I am a female. Dad wanted a boy so he named me after himself, sort of. His name was John. In the USA 🇺🇸 Shawn is also a girl's name. Particularly among those who were born in the 1950's and were of Irish descent.
You never really do...
About 3 weeks before he got arrested he gave me a ride. It was him I was at the bull pen bar n grill on 200 th n pacific highway. SeaTac,Wa it was raining hard and I asked a stocky man beady eyes driving a mini truck for some change. I was on my way to Seattle catching the 174 bus but was getting a beer . I got a ride to the Chinese pavilion across from the Lewis n Clark theaters. His phone kept ringing and as I waited for the bus we talked shortly. He was talking about religion. It was a creepy conversation. He gave me 20$ and I got out hoped on the bus n told my wife the incident. 3 weeks later my wife said come here n look at the tv. I had discribed him to her. It was him the green river killer gave me a ride. Thank God I wasn’t a woman
Nothing like riding the ol’ 174.
Holy shit!!
I believe it. Highway 99 is cursed (and I work there lol.) glad you made it out alive.
I lived in Renton, WA before he was caught. Every morning, I would drop my wife off at the bus stop in front of the Kenworth plant where he was working at the time. Even after he was caught, we got up early and I drove her to work in Bellevue even though I worked right down the street at the city hall building in Renton.
This killer had the most effect on me personally, grew up aware of Gary's killings and his disposing bodies in the Green River - i happened to be swimming in when I learned of him and what he was doing. He was my nightmares .... I worked in Auburn near where he lived, I was so shocked when he was finally exposed to how close I had been to him throughout my life... now I'm most interested in true crime stories, where these guys have been caught.
and what is even scarier is that there are people like Gary still out there doing what he did who haven't got caught yet.
Traumatizing and terrifying!!!
I hope that you are well.
Isabelle Victoria BC
@@royharper2003
Yes, there are 35 to 40 serial killers thought to be "working" at any given time in the US.
It's horrifying!!!
Take care, be safe!!!
Isabelle in Victoria BC Canada
I also grew up in Auburn and around the green river. All the locations and places referenced... are so close to home.
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He didn't commit 'mass murder' as claimed at 3:42, as well as other points in the video...serial killing, while it has the potential to be massive in scope & number of victims, is an entirely different endeavor than 'mass murder'...he killed his victims one at a time, not in groups...there's a difference...
Big difference, totally agree.
He also isn’t the most prolific in the US. Samuel Little is.
@@steveo4991 samuel little is a good liar
@@wastedtalent666 So good he can talk in detail about crimes he committed. The kind of detail he couldn’t possibly have known unless he did it himself. He must be a mind reader.
@@steveo4991That man was so clearly a damn scapegoat. All he did was draw pictures and say he was here or there. Most of those women can't even be proven to have existed. Names, photos, family, bodies. I'm not saying he is not one of the worst possibly. But with Ridgeway they found over 50 bodies he Did kill at least 70 he lost count. Police no doubt believe it's closer to 90 something. And they found almost all the damn bodies that met his m.o. None of that for Little who conveniently died soon after. Leaving the title of worst serial killer to a black man from a white one. You can't make this shit up in America with the fbi.
Reading the book about him while I was doing 8 years in prison in 2003 blew my mind. The numbers of women he was able to kill while looking so unassuming was astounding.
I hope that you have turned your life around.
No one deserves to be victimized.
I know that sometimes people commit crimes to eat, but still...
Ridgeway is a piece of 💩.
I wish you all the best.
Dave Reichert should be locked up with him, they let him go because he passed a lie detector and he was highly suspected.
@@adamirishconundrum851 how would they have been able to arrest him? They had no evidence.
Whats the name of the book? I'd love to read it.
@@90_sGirl I know Ann Rule for being one of the best female true crime writers. She wrote a book about him
( and almost all of them nuts ) called "Green river, running red." She also got tips from Ted Bundy on how to capture Gary. Stroke his ego good there. and wrote a book with him. She knew Ted's daughter but never disclosed anything about her.
49 in 20+ years?? With a large chunk in a 2-year stretch? No way. He killed many more than that for sure.
He admitted to 71. I think it was just 49 in King county.
Damn his numbers makes Ted Bundys look like childs play
This man was fondled by his mother growing up. He was acting out in revenge and probably didn't realize it.
49 is what he got caught for. There is way more.
One was too many
There's no proof of that
Oh I’m sure at least 100
@@davidwoermansr yeah but you serious think it was exactly 49?
He admitted to 80 something murders
This Ridgway character has some Ed Gein vibes that I didn't notice before. He'd have had WAY more victims if he wasn't caught when he was
Story time! Tell us all about it
@@MissChelle857 Gary and Ed shared zero things in common... one was a serial killer/rapist, while the other was a grave robber/body snatcher who skinned deceased women and made furniture, etc out of their skin. Ed only killed two people, one being his brother. Get your facts straight.
But he had stopped killing for a long time when he was caught.
@@MissChelle857 But Ed Gein was known to have only killed one person.
The rest of his body's came from the cemetery where he dug up graves and stole the body's.
They had NO proof of anyone else. But they did speculate.
They headbobbing on the wrong John
The one man that got Ridgeway crying was an old man that said You are forgiven sir
that takes alot of guts to forgive the monster who murdered your child. Bless that poor guy. I wish him and his family well and healing.
Crocodile tears, the man just feeling sorry for himself.
yup
When the narrator talks about laying beside the body and ctying was him realizing what he has done. Gary ridgeway said while crying in an interview that he was hurt because the girl who he was dating asked him to hurry up while having sex gary crying like a baby kept saying she didnt have time for me she hurt my feelings . It was all about him so he killed her
“Hurry up” means she wasn’t getting any pleasure and she was probably like 🙄😴 so he got mad and killed her
The Narrators voice is what drove Gary to Start killing people.
He is really very special, but better than these horrible AI voices
Just so yall know, theres still plenty of serial killers that havent been caught.
Sleep tight
Not like Ridgeway it's way easier to get caught nowadays
Unfortunately.. they estimate that there is roughly between 50-100 nation wide that are unknown at any random given time.
You should do an episode on the Bath Massacre in Michigan in 1927. I’m surprised it’s not more well known due the number of victims(38 elementary students and 6 adults). I don’t think I’ve ever seen it the subject of a TV show or documentary.
Really gotta look into this one.
I live an hour from Bath, MIchigan and hadn't heard about it until just a few years ago. I just don't understand why its so unknown.
There are a number of programs on the Bath school massacre
Check out Sinister Stories.
A video was just recently done on this topic by that channel.
Good-looking I'm about to search this up
My sister in law told me years ago if it wasn't for her brother Grant Fredrickson( White Rock D.J.)whole pledged for funds to keep the investigation going, he may of never been caught. He was caught with in the next two month's, thankfully. 🇨🇦
Cool. Fuk Canada tho
So your sister-in law's brother would be your brother-in law
@@anthonycamaratta8887 actually?
@@anthonycamaratta8887 my brother in law's brothers aren't my brother in laws they're my sister's brother in laws she married my brother in law I didn't
@@anthonycamaratta8887 Not really as she was married to my husband's brother, so his sis in law. She is a medic and ambulance driver so she's believable. My sis and I were visiting at a pals Trailer at Lake Sammamish, out in the canoe drinking, made pit stop to go the bathroom at community Hall. People, cops etc running around, so left. Didn't find out till we got back to Vancouver, that it was Ted Bundy in 1978.
I want to hear the narrator say “I’ll be right back I really have to poop”
The old guy with the red glasses and the bow tie talking in this I forget his name is awesome, he writes books on real life murder and he’s also the host of a British crime series called murder by the sea which is actually quite good 👍😊
Geoffrey Wansell
Thanks for that , I’m terrible with names 😂
@@fionanisbett3748i just Read your comment will he appeared on the video.
my uncle worked with Gary Ridgeway at Kenworth. Even had him over to my uncles home a couple times. I've been in the home that they allegedly hungout in. It could be anyone, man.
Why is nobody trying to help women who feel forced to do sex work? I've heard so many people say that sex work is okay and should be legalized. No woman in her right mind would put herself at such risk and would make herself vulnerable to total strangers unless she is addicted to drugs or controlled by a pimp. These women are not garbage to just ignore. Something must be done about this!!!
I somewhat disagree, but I agree with your overall point for sure. We need to be doing more against trafficking and forced/coerced sex work!
They had the guy who was with one of the victims but never though about following him around …. Great detectives.
Right!
Washington State is known for lacking common sense. Very slow and lazy people.
Ann Rule wrote I really good book about the Green River killer. She focuses mainly on the victims and not so much on him.
I grew up with this case looming over us. The communities in the Pacific Northwest were in genuine fear and gave up hope this case would be solved. It was bittersweet relief when he was finally caught.
Utah here. Haven't got to the end yet, but thinking he was sentenced to death in Utah and demanded firing squad. First one in Utah for decades.
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I don’t remember that at all and I’m 38. I only remember when he was caught. Maybe it was due to the fact I was born and raised in Everett.
Im on the other side of Washington state and we had a serial going here at the same time. Robert Lee Yates. He was a sicko as well. He had a wife and daughters and had one kill buried under his bedroom window!!
I grew up in Spokane. I have been to that house near Ferris high school.
Lmao✌
I almost bought the farm where the murders the movie in cold blood is about you could still see blood stains in the wood floors instead I bought a house that use to be a small town hospital with even more stains
@@davidwoermansr Good God! They never tore it down? That broken latch on the side door is probably still there, too, I suppose. Remember the other inmate who gave them the info that the side door was never locked and they could get in? But he lied about the existence of a safe. He was the one also charged as an accomplice. There never was a safe and the killers only got about 50 bucks the farmer had in his wallet.
I remember Yates story and I do tend to confuse him w/this killer/I keep thinking Ridgeway had someone buried under his window/Yates preyed upon sex workers too, correct?
I just love the background narrative voice 😂😂
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God bless the memories of that monster Ridgway's victims. They all fled abusive situations, they tried to survive on the tough streets, only to be snuffed out by an evil P.O.S.
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I remember reading books about the Green River Killer in the 90’s and at the time, they had NO IDEA who it was. I’m glad that the DNA technology finally caught up with Ridgeway.
Amazing channel and documentaries! The voice is wonderful for such genre. Can you please create a movie about Chikatilo - a Russian serial killer who was murdering people for more than 10 years.
The detective had a tough time speaking of the case all these years later. I can't imagine having to deal with murders on a regular basis, the effect it would have on your mind & heart would be too heavy
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How can a police officer drop of a 15 year old girl back at her hotel alone who just been rape and she 15 what.
I was 14 and after being found knocked out and bleeding from the back of my head the cops dropped me off at my camp knowing I was a runaway for a little over a year
Because they are fucking stooges and in Seattle and Wichita they have the Keystone Kops.
They probably did not care...
Is this a real tv show ? Like this is very well done
Grew up in Washington and had a brother in law with the last name ridgeway, he’d get asked all the time if he was related to the green river killer.
Wow.
Some names just need to be changed - Ridgeway, Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy....No way in hell would I go through life with those names!
Where is Dave Reichert in all of this report? He was the head of the task force for the Green River Killer for a long while.
Fun fact that like no one but my family knows: ok so it's a long time ago and my half sisters grandad finds a guy with a broken jeep and asks if he needs a ride gary says yes now my half grandad didn't know it was a serial killer so helped him and then offered him to live with him for a while and it's good the first night and the second night gary is behind my sisters grandad holding a belt and asks do you every think of choking some one with a belt? Now my sisters grandad is terrified and didn't think he was telling the truth he also said other things that I forgot but then my sisters grandad he goes to the police and tells them they ignore him and stuff and he's scared so he escapes out the bathroom window when gary is acting weird again and when they find he identity of gary he realizes he was living with a serial killer for like 6 days. The weirdest thing about this story is it happens in Wyoming even tho he killed in Washington
Whoa that's scary
I didn’t notice the narration until I read the comments. Now I can’t unhear it 😫
I deleted my first two comments, they were inappropriate. My apologies to anyone offended by them. I can't really imagine how much it hurts to lose loved ones to such monstrous means. The families deserve peace, I hope they find it.
I now have an overbearing need to know what your first two comments were
How do they tell this whole story and never mention Dave Reichert?
Who is that?
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Agreed! Dave never gave up on getting justice for those young women & their families. Poured his soul into that case him & his coworker the black female detective as well. They are the hidden MVPs of this case… 2 decades of never giving up on catching that monster.
I watched 👀 the documentary a few hours ago today I didn't realize it took so long for him to be captured I thought he was captured years ago stunning to know he was out there the whole time very scary 😨.
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My friend Andrea Chillards was a victim of his. She was very sweet. She told me she taught aerobics downtown Seattle @ night. I only wish, that had been true. RIP Andrea, forever 19. 😢💔🙏🤙
So why doesn't anything on her pop up when you search it? I'm not being a dick, I'm curious because I wanted to look it up.
Your friend and you can't even get her last name right after she's brutally murdered. It's Childers by the way.
It's a wierd connection between satl lake city and Washington and killers. Ridgeway, Bundy, the Peterson case, seems there's a few others too
Agree
The fact that it took them this long to catch this guy is pathetic
That's what so puzzling about these men who are serial killers, they look like the neighbour next door, quiet, looks like a regular guy, maybe mild mannored guy and so on.
Your documentaries about serial killers are really amazing can you make a similar documentary on Andrei chikitilo ( the red ripper ) ?
Man i loved this documentary gary is one sick dude
They almost fucking freed him due to covid, the west coast liberals are sick as fuck. He even said he would kill again if he got out.
Each serial killer is the most prolific serial killer in the country
Gary really is one of the most prolific killers in the history of modern serial killers.
So true. It’s annoying. Which ones the most. Hard to tell when they claim all
My mother actually had a run in with him, she was thankfully with a group.
Jesus this Narrator is a little too enthusiastic
Kinda ruins this documentary
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Lived in Auburn my whole life, apparently my dad knew the guy and worked with him at kenworth. They used to always see his truck going back and forth on the freeway at night, and called him "green river gary" before he was ever caught
Bull shit
His wife never wondered where he was each night?
Probably thought he was at mommy's getting a bath
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I think he did it in the morning befire work. This video is wrong.
It’s crazy to me that his wife was so absolutely clueless about his double life but apparently such a devoted husband simultaneously..
King County should be renamed "Seriel Killer County". Wtf is it with the Pacific Northwest and seriel killers?!
Bigfoot. Lol
Bundy started out in Pierce County but then went on to King County.
25:00 Did that cop really call it "a electrical signal light"??? 🤣🤣
real crime does such amazing docus. and love the female guests. i learn so much from them!!!!❤
Amazes me he is still alive today, yes hes older but hes alive and got to live a full life behind bars getting fed and housed and his victims...... Their lives ended when they were young, never going to get another chance, only one life, and they dont exist. Sad,
Yeah, he's 74 now - many decades older than his victims!
What is terrifying about Garry Ridgway was that he appeared so unremarkable. What is particularly awful is the bland way he talks about killing people. If you did not know that he was talking about his victims you would think he was just talking about the cheeseburger he just ate at Wendy's. If anyone deserves to die by poison gas it's Ridgway.
Most serial killers look pretty normal. They often have a family and a good job, and are quite social. It’s their way of creating a cover story.
But if he gets the death penalty it over quick , if he spends the rest of his life slowly rotting away in jail being bullied , beat and tormented by other inmates don’t you think that’s sooooooooo much better for an evil monster like him
nobody deserves to die in any painful way or execution. god decides that. who r we to take someone else's life. then we r know better then them. yes I agree serial killers r brutal and wrong in all ways. but if u except god in your heart, mind ,soul then god forgives you. god will judge not us. david Berkowitz has turned to god and now helps others and teaches gods word in prison. we r all sinners.
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I lived on the Oregon coast during this time. I ran away once to go see my boyfriend up in Vancouver Canada. I was 17 years old. I have a white Samsonite suitcase. I was very pretty with long blonde hair. I was at a truckstop or somebody told me I could probably catch another right further up. This man said to me, I know a shortcut with a lot more people and you can get a better ride….. it’s just this path in the woods. FYI, it was probably 11 o’clock at night. Every fiber in my being scream. NO !! No, Inga.!!But he didn’t look like he would hurt me and it was cold. There in November I swear on my life inside my head I heard the voice that said ,go back stay around people only
Get in a car with a woman. That guy started getting quite angry when I wouldn’t come with him and his face changed. I went up to a mother and daughter and told her I’m a little frightened they brought me all the way up to the border. Gave me busfare begged me never to do that again. They had just found a body close by a week before. This trip, on that same highway our parents were right ,don’t hitchhike. Trust your gut. . I am lucky. And my goodness was i foolish.!!!
The hipocracy of everybody in this case is amazing...where were all of those family members when those women were hooking on the strip, was that child molester that made that girl leave ever prosecuted...or that cop that let her go at the motel instead of takin her home, she was 15 for fuck sake...most of the victims ware from families that abandond them...and then those families got someone to blame and except no responsabilities on thair end...sickening
Ok After my fifth episode of being hooked on this show, I’m starting to believe they hired the lady and give her the script which specifically states remember to say he didn’t look like a monster.
That's because most serial killers are unassuming and non monster looking. You wouldn't get in a car if the guy looked creepy, monster-like, or dangerous. That's why he was able to kill so many. Same with Bundy. And Dahmer, Albert Fish, H. H. Holmes, ect
I find it really odd that I was a teen in WA state while all the murders were going on, knew the title it had been given as the Green River killings, but never knew this mans name until right now. Other killers with fewer victims are etched in history.. Everyone knows their names. I feel like it's not a bad thing this man didn't get notoriety, but it also puzzles me.
not to mention prostitution is illegal and every one of these females would be alive today if they chose not to break the law by selling their vaginas as whores. Yeah.
Serial killers has lost the media pull they had in the past.
I live in Washington, 38 now, and never even heard about the green killer until he got caught. Born and raised in Everett though so maybe that has something to do with it but my family would watch KOMO News nightly at 5 every single day so you think it would’ve been etched in my mind before he got caught.
@jasoninthehood9726 You really must have lived under a rock. (No offense) I lived my whole life in Africa and have heard of him in the early nineties. They even talked about him in crime fiction police series on tv long before he was caught.
"Young women doing the best they could in the way they knew how." Really? They weren't capable of waiting tables or running a cash register? Come on.
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@peepeepoopoo6053 Only 6 of his 49 victims were under the age of 16 and therefore wouldn't have been able to find regular jobs. I'll give them a bit of a pass, but not the other 43.
I’m pretty sure everyone has met a guy that looks like Ridgway. He’s just got that generic “works at the Home Depot “ look too him. Maybe that’s how he got away with it for so long?
I recall in 1978, my elementary school sent us to McDonald's to be finger printed.. They wanted the kids to think it was all about fun, when it was all about wanting to make sure you will be identified incase of a serial killer or child preditor...Now I somewhat recall my mom an other mother's that day looked nervous, not really talkative... The 70s definitely was a scary time for parents...
I remember doing this in the late 80's as well
This show should have given credit where credit is due. Matt Haney’s DNA collection, in the 80s, solved the case and caused Ridgway’s 84 in total killing spree to end! His goal: 100. But here’s what sickens me, many of the victims (NOT ALL) had parents that protested Ridgway’s crimes but had households that victimized their children to such an extent, their children preferred prostitution rather than spending another night in their parents home.
And worse yet, Seattle had children, girls, as young as 11 years old climbing on cars prostituting themselves. The city FED the serial killers, in my opinion!
When all those multiple killers were roaming that city’s streets, why weren’t interventions taken immediately to get those kids off the streets, especially since the Green River killer was “dumping” up to five victims per MONTH!
Thank you for mentioning Matt Haney! There were earlier interviews with him about his major participation in this case, now unable to find them anywhere.
Best narrator by far
Ridgeway would not have got away with it for nearly so long these days. His DNA was everywhere.
Not just that, our profiling has gotten incredible now. The BAU is incredible these days.
One of the many strange things about The OGs of the Serial Killer Metaverse, Ridgeway, Sean Gillis et al , is they all share the same flat affect. It's not even about no remorse , they dont seem that fussed about any of it . Relating their atrocities dispassionately, as though reading from a train timetable.
How can you sleep, we think.
SK: Very well , and probably a lot better than you.
The monster was one of the worst but not the worst. Pedro Lopez & Luis Garivito were much much worse.
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I have lived about 1 mile away from the house he committed most of the murderers in since 1987 ...
This guy lived block away from where I use to live..Also I worked in Kenworth truck company where he worked and I remember seeing him there
Wow.
Maybe next time a narrator that’s not constipated. .
The narrator and the horror movie music ruined it for me.
"As a teenager he was obsessed with sex!" "He wanted sex everywhere all the time!"
The rest of us who were teenage boys once: 😬
Yeah I remember all those uncontrollable boners as a newly minted teen. Not a fun time lol
Imagine a having a job for about 2 decades, without showing results, getting paid, maybe promotions, and a pension.
You mean a politician?
Change the settings on this video so people all over the world can watch it... had to use VPN to view this video!!!!
Smart idea to use a VPN anyway
Just goes to show you can't judge a book by a cover, because his cover is tiny, bland, boring, shabby and one you wouldn't take a second glance at, hence the reason he's so damn dangerous. None of those victims thought he'd ever be THE ONE to NOT mess with. UNASSUMING, but oh, so interesting. RIP beautiful ladies.
You're so right that's what made him that much more dangerous.
He had a room temperature iq.
I was a kid living in aburn by the green river when Gary was active. I remember everyone was afraid.
Ah good old Seattle, Washington. This place needs more attention for the issues we have here. Ridgway is a hell of a case though, which worries me cause it’s still so stressful over here, at the time of writing this we’ve broken our homicide record. Not to mention my mom knew a good amount of ppl back in the day that had interacted with Ridgway. Wild times.
As a Seattle resident, look at our crime statistics compared to the rest of the country. We are fine. It’s all the transplants from other states coming here and making things bad. If you ain’t born and raised in WA, go home!!