Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, has been booked into the King County Jail once again.
At 10:42 a.m. on Monday, Ridgway was booked, according to a news release from Casey McNerthney of the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
The reason behind his arrest is a mystery to the detectives.
“The King County Sheriff’s Office continues to actively investigate potentially related cases since Gary Ridgway’s arrest in 2001 about the Green River murder investigation,” said Brandyn Hull of the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) in an email sent to MyNorthwest on Monday.
Also, one person has died in a shooting that occurred on Sunday in the Sand Point district of Seattle.
Ridgway admitted to killing many more people than the 49 included in his plea agreement in an interview with Charlie Harger of KIRO Newsradio in 2013.
The overall number, according to Ridgway, is 75 to 80.
Ridgway stated his desire to assist police in locating more areas where he abandoned his victims during those discussions.
Prosecutor Norm Maleng of King County, Washington, exchanged the death penalty for information regarding open cases in 2003.
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The press announcement emphasized that the families’ rights, not Gary Ridgway’s, were at issue. “Ridgway consented to show detectives where his victims were laid to rest. For the first time, loved ones could find out for sure what had happened to them.
For the crime of murder, Ridgway is now serving 49 consecutive life terms in prison.
The latest set of remains belonging to Tammie Liles, the Green River Killer, were identified in January by KCSO.
Near Tigard, Oregon, some of Liles’s bones were initially found in 1985. They went by the name “Bones 20” in 2003.
In 2022, the KCSO hired Othram, a firm that uses forensic genetic genealogy to solve cold cases involving missing persons and homicides, to try to construct a DNA profile and perform related forensic genetic genealogical research.
According to the sheriff’s office, a DNA sample was subsequently sent to the University of North Texas from Liles’ mother. The next step was to identify the remaining relatives of Liles using conventional STR and mitochondrial DNA testing.
In November 2003, Ridgway admitted to killing 48 women in King County from 1982 to 1998, according to HistoryLink.org.
If Ridgway is found guilty of murder outside of King County, he might still face the death penalty, according to McNerthney.
