BRYAN MONROE / THE SEATTLE TIMES, 1987 The first victim found in the Green River was in 1982 near a Kent meat-packing plant.
	"I wanted to kill as many women I thought were prostitutes as I possibly could," Gary Ridgway, 54, admitted in court, to avoid the death penalty, in exchange for life in prison without parole.

About the case

•	The victims
•	Timeline of a manhunt
•	Digging for evidence
•	Where victims were found
•	Area of disappearances

Legal documents
(Note: some documents contain graphic information)

•	Summary of Evidence (a graphic description of Ridgway's crimes) [1.1mb PDF]
•	Plea agreement [295k PDF]
•	Second amended information [1.5mb PDF]
•	Statement of defendant [920k PDF]

Seattle Times investigation, September 1987
A six-part examination of how police and other institutions dealt with the worst known serial-murder case in the nation .

Part 1: What went wrong?	Part 4: Wrong man caught
Part 2: Setting made for murderer	Part 5: A task force is born
Part 3: Case kept eluding police	Part 6: Could he strike again?
· Couple finds 'black hole'	· What kind of man is this?