Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway · 4 Sep 2026 · 11 min

The Killings That Didn't Stop: 1990, 1998, and the Wrong Assumption

Investigators concluded the Green River murders had stopped — they were wrong by sixteen years. Episode eight traces the deadly cost of a false assumption, from a polygraph pass in 1984 to a confirmed killing in 1998.

Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway
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The Killings That Didn't Stop: 1990, 1998, and the Wrong Assumption

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By nineteen eighty-four, the investigators working the Green River murders had reached a quiet conclusion. The killings had stopped.

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