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SERIAL KILLER: The Green River Killer

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7358.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Through the 80's & 90's, women in the state of Washington were turning up dead. First, along the Green River, then in other clusters throughout the state and even into Portland, Oregon. Not only had these women been murdered but their killer would re-visit their corpses and sexually assault them multiple times until their corpses were fully decomposed and consumed by maggots. A man named Gary Ridgeway had been pointed out by a number of witnesses as being the Green River Killer but police were unable to make an arrest until DNA connected him to four crime scenes in 2001 – two decades and at least 49 victims later.

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0:00.0

Hi, Crime Junkeys. Welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

0:05.6

And I'm Grete.

0:06.3

And today I have kind of an interesting episode. If you'll remember last week, we talked about

0:11.4

Misty Copsie and her case was very heavily linked to and related to the Green River Killer

0:18.1

possibly. And in part of the episode, I said, you know, I don't know a lot about the

0:21.9

Green River Killer, so I can't really speak to it. So I decided what better for our next

0:26.6

episode than to dive into the case of the Green River Killer, which is one of the craziest

0:32.1

serial killer cases I think here in America. Don't forget that every episode is brought

0:37.5

to you by Crime Staffers of Central Indiana so you can get more information about their

0:41.8

program at crimetips.org. And this is the last episode of May, which means we have a

0:48.0

puppet of the month segment after our episodes. So if you want to hang around, hear a wonderful

0:53.7

story about a dog adoption, I promise not to make you cry this time.

1:23.7

Last time we had a serial killer case, we talked about lists, the Long Island serial killer.

1:35.0

We were still left with a lot of questions. The killer or killers have yet to be found,

1:40.4

but this week I'm going to tell you about a serial killer who after over two decades

1:45.8

was captured. And this is the Green River Killer or who we now know as Gary Ridgeway.

1:52.4

During that kind of gives me hope for cases like the Long Island serial killer, the Green

1:56.7

River Killer was caught some 20 years later, and Golden State Killer was caught like 40 years

2:02.9

later. We could be in the last days before they announced that they've identified and

2:08.0

captured lists, right? Yes and no, I'd like to think that things will shake loose in the

2:14.1

list case the way they did for the Golden State Killer and the Green River Killer, but

2:18.9

they were both caught because of DNA and there's none of that in the list case. And the

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