#Green river killer serial

Shawnda Leea Summers, 17, October 9, 1982, near Yesler Way in Seattle.

Investigators believe the killer returned to the Tukwila site and moved part of her remains.ġ2. Her skull was found June 12, 1985, in Tigard, Oregon. Some skeletal remains found there February 10, 1990. Body appears first to have been left in wooded area at S 137th Street and 44th Avenue S in Tukwila. Denise Darcel Bush, 22, October 8, 1982, last seen noon, S 144th Street and Pacific Highway S. Found May 30, 1988, at S 348th Street and First Avenue S.ġ1. Debra Lorraine Estes, 15, disappeared September 20, 1982. Found November 13, 1983, at S 192nd Street and 27th Avenue S.ġ0. Mary Bridget Meehan, 18, September 15, 1982, at S 165th Street and Pacific Highway S. Found April 1, 1984, off Star Lake Road in South King County.ĩ. Terry Rene Milligan, 16, August 29, 1982, S 144th Street and Pacific Highway S. at her South King County home by her husband.Ĩ. Found August 15, 1982, Green River, Kent. Opal Charmaine Mills, 16, August 12, 1982, at a public phone booth off Sea-Tac strip near 192nd Street. 15, 1982, on bank of Green River near Kent.ħ. Cynthia Jean Hinds, 17, August 11, 1982, near the Sea-Tac strip. Marcia Faye Chapman, 31, August 1, 1982, near 30th Avenue S and S 188th Street. Found August 12, 1982, in the Green River near Kent.ĥ. Debra Lynn Bonner, 23, July 25, 1982, last seen south of Sea-Tac Airport. Found September 25, 1982, south of airport.Ĥ. Gisele Ann Lovvorn, 17, July 17, 1982, near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Body found in Green River July 15, 1982, near Kent.ģ. Wendy Lee Coffield, 16, July 8, 1982, at state receiving home, Tacoma. Remains found April 18, 1984, near Highway 18 and Interstate 90.Ģ. Amina Agisheff, 36, last seen July 7, 1982, leaving Seattle apartment. He has been a suspect for a long time, but before now, detectives had not found adequate evidence to build a case against him.ġ. Ridgway, a truck painter raised near SeaTac, is a Tyee High School graduate. DNA evidence ties Ridgway to four of the cases, and circumstancial evidence to several others. Gary Leon Ridgway, 52, a longtime resident of the area, was arrested on November 30, 2001. County Executive Tim Hill disbanded the Green River Task Force in 1989, but the case remains open. It was subsequently presumed that that the killer had left King County. The last victim, Cindy Smith, was found in March 1984. Until the arrest of Ridgway, formal charges were never brought against any suspect despite the expenditure of $15 million and tens of thousands of staff hours, the assistance of famed profiler Bob Keppel and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and tips from psychics and citizens. The list of suspected Green River victims rose to 49 over the next two years. As new victims turned up in or near the Green River, King County Executive Randy Revelle and new Sheriff Vernon Thomas organized a special Green River Task Force, first directed by Frank Adamson.

#Green river killer serial

In consultation with other police departments, they linked the Bonner killing with the earlier unsolved murders of Wendy Coffield and Leann Wilcox, and reached the conclusion that a serial killer might be stalking street prostitutes in the south King County area. King County Police Major Bob Kraske and Detective David Reichert (later elected County Sheriff) led the initial investigation of Bonner's murder.