Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, has been booked into the King County Jail, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Ridgway, who pled guilty in 2003 to the murders of 48 women in King County between 1982 and 1998, was booked at 10:42 a.m. Monday on an institutional hold by the King County Sheriff’s Office.Ridgway had been serving his sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, where he is serving 49 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
"Ridgway’s crimes shocked the Seattle area and beyond, with his known victims predominantly being vulnerable women, including sex workers. The investigation, which began after the discovery of the first victim, Wendy Lee Coffield, in the Green River in 1982, spanned more than two decades and included the efforts of the Green River Task Force. The case was ultimately solved through advancements in DNA technology.
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