"Green River Killer (film) Green River Killer is a 2005 American crime film by Ulli Lommel starring George Kiseleff, Jaquelyn Aurora (as Jacquelyn Horrell), Georgina Donovan, Shannon Leade, Naidra Dawn Thomson, and Shawn G. Smith. It is based upon the crimes of serial killer Gary Ridgway. Based on the true story of serial murderer Gary Ridgway, the film depicts how he would approach prostitutes in bars, take them to his homes, brutally kill them and throw the corpses into the Green River, a pattern of behavior which explains his sobtiquet, ""Green River Killer."" Soon, however, the police are on his"
"law firm of Bogle & Gates in Seattle from 1983 to 1988, he became an Assistant United States Attorney of the United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington. He served there from 1988 to 1994. Jones served as a judge on the King County Superior Court, Washington from 1994 to 2007. During this period, he presided over several high-profile cases, including the prosecution of Gary Ridgway, the notorious ""Green River Killer"" who was known to have killed 48 women. Jones is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Jones"
"Maleng explained his decision to make the deal: Ridgway led prosecutors to three bodies in 2003. On August 16 of that year, the remains of a 16-year-old girl found near Enumclaw, Washington, 40 feet from State Route 410, were pronounced as belonging to Pammy Annette Avent, who had been believed to be a victim of the Green River Killer. The remains of Marie Malvar and April Buttram were found in September 2003. On November 23, 2005, The Associated Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of one of the 48 women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea"
"disappearances were attributed to the so-called ""Green River Killer,"" because the first five victims were found in or around the Green River. For almost twenty years, law enforcement officials were unable to identify the person who was responsible for the Green River murders. In the fall of 2001, however, science was able to do the job that law enforcement never could. DNA evidence which was found in or on four of the Green River victims was matched to a long-standing suspect in the case, Gary Leon Ridgway. Ridgway, a truck painter from Auburn, Washington with a measured I.Q. of 85,"
"public multiuse trail runs along the river through most of this valley. The Green River is infamous as the location where the first victims of serial killer Gary Ridgway were found in the early 1980s. Most of these victims were prostitutes that worked an active ""stroll"" along Pacific Highway South. Although only a few bodies were found in the river, the unidentified killer was known as the ""Green River Killer"". These murders went unsolved for over 20 years. For many years, Dave Reichert led the investigation as a detective of the King County Sheriff's Office. Ridgway made a plea agreement"
"time frame when these victims were killed. Early in August 2003, Seattle television news reported that Ridgway had been moved from a maximum security cell at King County Jail to an Airway Heights Minimum-Medium Security Level Tank. Other news reports stated that his lawyers, led by Anthony Savage, were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders. On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder as part of a plea bargain, agreed to in June,"
"DNA evidence identified Gary Leon Ridgway as the Green River killer. In 2004, Reichert published the autobiography, ""Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer"". In 1997, he was appointed sheriff of King County, Washington, by King County executive Ron Sims. In 2001, he ran unopposed for a second four-year term. A widely rebroadcast event during the Seattle World Trade Organization conference and protests showed him chasing demonstrators down 3rd Avenue. He served as president of the Washington State Sheriffs’ Association. He was an executive board member of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs."
"guilty to the remaining six murder charges on September 8, 2017, he exclusively gave detailed confessions to Howard in letters and recorded phone calls. William Devin Howell William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people in 2003. He is believed to have been the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history. In November 2017, while already serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter, he was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences, which he is currently serving at Cheshire Correctional Institution. The victims were identified as 7 women, one of"
"Arthur Shawcross Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York. His first known murders were in 1972 when he killed a young boy and girl in his hometown of Watertown, New York. Under the terms of a plea bargain, Shawcross was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter, for which he served 12 years of a 25-year sentence. He killed most of his victims in 1988 and 1989 after being paroled early which led to criticism of the justice"
"sentenced to life in prison in 1996. Spillman is serving his sentence at Washington State Penitentiary. His criminal record includes impending charges on rape in King County and burglary in Spokane County. According to court documents, ""Spillman would declare to Miller (his cellmate) that he wanted to be the world’s greatest serial killer."" Jack Owen Spillman Jack Owen Spillman III (born 30 August 1969) is a serial killer from Spokane, Washington. He is known as ""The Werewolf Butcher"". Spillman was convicted of the murders of a 48-year-old East Wenatchee, Washington woman and her 15-year-old daughter in April 1995, and the"
"with King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng to cooperate with police in order to escape execution. In November 2003, Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of Aggravated First Degree Murder. King County Superior Court Judge Richard A. Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 consecutive life sentences. Ridgway will never be eligible for parole. Green River (Duwamish River tributary) The Green River is a long river in the state of Washington in the United States, arising on the western slopes of the Cascade Range south of Interstate 90. The upper Green River valley forms the western approach to Stampede Pass, and"
"Albert Fish Hamilton Howard ""Albert"" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he ""had children in every state"", and at one time stated the number was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful. He was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. Fish confessed"
"Joseph E. Duncan III Joseph Edward Duncan III (born February 25, 1963) is an American convicted serial killer and child molester who is on death row in federal prison in conjunction with the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He is also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life without parole in conjunction with the same crimes as well as the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California. Additionally, Duncan has confessed to - but not been charged with - the 1996 murder of two girls in Seattle. At the time of"
"Green River Task Force for the investigation of a set of murders in Washington. By 1984, Ted Bundy began writing letters to Robert Keppel in hopes to help in the investigation of the Green River Killer. This correspondence led to interviews between the two, which resulted in Bundy confessing to his unidentified crimes days before his execution. Serial Murder: Future Implications for Police Investigations (1989) Signature Killers (with William Birnes) (1997) Murder: A Multidisciplinary Anthology of Readings (with Joseph Weis) (1999) The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit (with William Birnes) (2003) The Riverman: Ted Bundy and"
"further describes previous journalistic investigation of Browne's claims as ""surprisingly slipshod"" and uncritical of his story. Robert Charles Browne Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is an American man convicted of two murders and serving a double-life sentence in the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. Browne is also a self-professed serial killer, alleging that he killed 48 people, mostly women and one in South Vietnam during his time in the US Military. Though many claims made by Browne remain uncorroborated, if accurate his account would make him one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Browne was born"
"Benjamin Atkins Benjamin ""Tony"" Atkins (August 26, 1968 – September 17, 1997), also known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered, tortured, and raped 11 women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan, during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992. All the victims were found in vacant buildings, all had been raped and strangled. Most of them had been murdered in the suburb of Highland Park. Many of the victims were working as prostitutes, and Atkins said he was motivated by a hatred of prostitution. During his trial, it"
"Green River killer Gary Ridgway and other serial killers were found in Stanko's home. According to a police spokesperson: ""He either was just interested in serial killers or he was becoming a serial killer."" After a nationwide manhunt, based on tips received after the posting of a $10,000 reward for information leading to his capture, Stanko was arrested without incident by the U.S. Marshals Service in Augusta, Georgia on April 12, 2005. Stephen Stanko is currently on death row at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. If the execution does take place, he will have a choice of the"
"William Devin Howell William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people in 2003. He is believed to have been the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history. In November 2017, while already serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter, he was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences, which he is currently serving at Cheshire Correctional Institution. The victims were identified as 7 women, one of whom was transgender. Their bodies were discovered behind a shopping plaza on Hartford Road in New Britain, beginning in 2007. The person who discovered"
"was charged with multiple counts of murder. Prothero first met Ridgway at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, Washington on November 30, 2001. At first, Prothero was incredulous that the mild-mannered, self-effacing Ridgway could be the elusive Green River Killer. Nevertheless, Prothero was appointed to serve as Ridgway's lead defense attorney. Prothero and his colleagues ended up negotiating a plea bargain, whereby Ridgway would give authorities information about his crimes and lead them to the bodies of his victims which had never been found. In exchange, Ridgway would be spared the death penalty. On November 5, 2003, Prothero stood at"
"the Mississippi State Penitentiary while in the shower. Donald Leroy Evans Donald Leroy Evans (July 5, 1957 – January 5, 1999) was an American serial killer who murdered at least three people from 1985 to 1991. He was known for confessing to killing victims at parks and rest areas across more than twenty U.S. states. Born in Michigan, Evans was convicted of his first crime in Galveston, Texas, for the rape of a local woman in 1986. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but served only five. After his parole in 1991, he returned to Galveston and took"
"to any and all future cases (in King County) where his confession could be corroborated by reliable evidence."" Ridgway is suspected of—but not charged with—murdering the remaining six victims of the original list attributed to the Green River Killer. In each case, either Ridgway did not confess to the victim's death, or authorities have not been able to corroborate their suspicion with reliable evidence. Ridgway has been considered a suspect in the disappearances/murders of five other women not attributed at the time to the Green River Killer. No charges have been filed. Gary Ridgway Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18,"
"in the Florida electric chair in 1998. Gerald Stano Gerald Eugene Stano (September 12, 1951 – March 23, 1998) was an American convicted serial killer. He killed at least 22 women; he confessed to killing 41. He was born in Schenectady, New York. His given name at birth was Paul Zeininger. His natural mother neglected him to such an extent that when she finally gave him up for adoption when he was six months old, county doctors declared him unadoptable because he was functioning at what they described as ""an animalistic level"", even ingesting his own faeces to survive. His"
"group of his fellow death row inmates. Though he denied having been assaulted, a number of inmates confessed to the crime, characterized by one source as a ""gang rape"". Shortly thereafter, he was charged with a disciplinary infraction for unauthorized correspondence with another high-profile criminal, John Hinckley, Jr. In October 1984, Bundy contacted Robert Keppel and offered to share his self-proclaimed expertise in serial killer psychology in the ongoing hunt for his successor in Washington, the Green River Killer. Keppel and Green River Task Force detective Dave Reichert interviewed Bundy, but Gary Leon Ridgway remained at large for a further"
"Robert Lee Yates Robert Lee Yates Jr. (born May 27, 1952) is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 13 women, all of whom were prostitutes working on E. Sprague Avenue, in Spokane. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit County. In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County and sentenced to death, but his death sentences were commuted to life without parole after Washington State outlawed the death penalty in 2018."
"Sean Vincent Gillis Sean Vincent Gillis (born June 24, 1962) is an American serial killer who stalked, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and mutilated eight Louisiana women between 1994 and 2003 in the Baton Rouge Metro and surrounding areas. He was arrested without incident at his residence on Burgin Ave at 1:30 a.m. on April 29, 2004. In his initial arrest, he was charged with three counts of first degree murder and three counts of ritualistic acts in the murders of 29-year-old Katherine Hall, 45-year-old Johnnie Mae Williams and 43-year-old Donna Bennett Johnston. Gillis confessed to the murders with little coercion and"
"Robert Charles Browne Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is an American man convicted of two murders and serving a double-life sentence in the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. Browne is also a self-professed serial killer, alleging that he killed 48 people, mostly women and one in South Vietnam during his time in the US Military. Though many claims made by Browne remain uncorroborated, if accurate his account would make him one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. According to a Red River Parrish Sheriff, Browne grew up as one of"
"Potomac River Rapist The Potomac River Rapist is an unidentified serial rapist and murderer who was active from 1991 to 1998. Ten sexual assaults and one murder in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area have been linked to the suspect by DNA. The perpetrator is known to be responsible for ten sexual assaults, one of which ended in murder. Each of the attacks have been linked by DNA: On August 1, 1998, at around 10:30 to 11pm EDT, Christine Mirzayan was walking home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. when she was dragged into the woods. Mirzayan yelled out and"
"of sex workers during the same time period due to the post-mortem mutilations that occurred, and it is for that reason that other murders of prostitutes are not usually attributed to the Ripper, or are disputed. Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper) murdered 13 women, some of whom were sex workers, from 1975-1980 in Northern England. Gary Ridgway (aka the Green River Killer), confessed to killing 48 sex workers from 1982 to 1998, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Robert Hansen murdered between 15 and 21 sex workers, near Anchorage, Alaska, between 1980 and"
"Jack Owen Spillman Jack Owen Spillman III (born 30 August 1969) is a serial killer from Spokane, Washington. He is known as ""The Werewolf Butcher"". Spillman was convicted of the murders of a 48-year-old East Wenatchee, Washington woman and her 15-year-old daughter in April 1995, and the murder of a 9-year-old girl in 1994. Spillman's black pickup truck matched the description of a vehicle seen in a parking lot near the victims' home on the night of the murder. That evening Spillman was stopped by an East Wenatchee police officer in the parking lot of a VFW hall nearby. Later"
"security level II at the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan. Charges have not been made in the cases of the other three deaths. In 1998, Lowell's appeal was rejected Lowell Amos Lowell Edwin Amos (born January 4, 1943 in Anderson, Indiana) is a serial killer whose mother and three wives all died under suspicious circumstances. He was convicted in 1996 of murdering his third wife, Roberta Mowery Amos. Lowell Amos was the subject of a 2006 Lifetime Network made-for-TV movie called ""Black Widower"". Amos is a former General Motors plant manager. Some sources spell his first name as ""Lowel"". In"
"and allocuted to his crimes in exchange for a true life sentence instead of the death penalty. Dayton Leroy Rogers Dayton Leroy Rogers (born September 30, 1953) is a serial killer currently on Oregon's death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary for six murders. He has been tied to the murders of seven women. He preferred ""street"" women, usually addicts, prostitutes and runaways. The bodies of six of the women were found at a dump site located on privately owned forest lands outside Molalla, Oregon, and thus he was dubbed the ""Molalla Forest Murderer"". Rogers was convicted in 1988 for"
"1982. The case was covered by ""Casefile True Crime Podcast"" on 16 April 2016 and in an episode (""Seeing Red"") of ""Murder Calls"" on 15 January 2017. Paul Michael Stephani Paul Michael Stephani (September 8, 1944June 12, 1998) was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Weepy-Voiced Killer due to a series of telephone calls he made to police, anonymously reporting his crimes in a histrionic and high-pitched voice. Stephani killed three women in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. On December 31, 1980, Stephani beat Karen Potack in Saint Paul, Minnesota, inflicting severe wounds and brain injury. Stephani"
"Scott William Cox had gained the attention of detectives nationwide. His job as a long-haul truck driver took him to over 3000 different locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He was also the prime suspect in 20 other murder cases, which to this day have remained unsolved. He was also briefly looked at by law enforcement as possibly being the Green River Killer, although detectives believed he may have been too young at the time to be such a prolific killer. On September 15, 1993, Scott William Cox pleaded no contest to two counts of murder. He was"