Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway · 5 Sep 2026 · 11 min

The Plea That Mapped the Dead: Ridgway's 48-Hour Confession

In 2003, Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 murders — the highest count in American serial killer history — and spent 48 hours on tape guiding investigators to bodies only he could find. This is the chapter where the DNA hit becomes a reckoning, and the reckoning still isn't over.

Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway
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The Plea That Mapped the Dead: Ridgway's 48-Hour Confession

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She was fifteen years old, and for nearly four decades, the only record of her existence in this case was a reference number. Bones Seventeen.

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