Green River Killer Ridgway gave tips to police in '83 | Seattle Times

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Ridgway gave tips to police in '83

By Duff Wilson and Michael Ko
Seattle Times staff reporters

He told them in 1983 and again last year, when it was far too late: how to catch the "Green River Killer."

Gary L. Ridgway actually gave crime-solving tips that might have been used against him in his first contact with a Green River Task Force detective, in 1983, and again last year as he sat in a cell writing confessions, maps and recollections, newly released records show.

The King County sheriff and prosecutor, responding to public-record requests, yesterday released two digital discs packed with more than 32,000 pages from the official Ridgway file.

For instance, Ridgway said that in the early 1980s he dated 20 to 40 women he did not kill. Misspelling many words, he wrote: "I needed some prostetutes out there that were alive in case I got caught. To say I didn't hurt them."

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[dryan]

1. Green River Killer

How do you think the families of the victims feel when they hear this?

[newyawker99]

2. Hi dryan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: