Good afternoon all,
I've been reading and thinking about this alot and I finally decided I post this info to see if any of you can see the similarities and maybe just maybe, someone can connect the dots :banghead:
Someone here had mentioned the Green River killer previously so I read up on the case here; SERIAL KILLERS > SEXUAL PREDATORSGreen River Killer: River of Death
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/greenriver/index_1.html
Here are some of the things that jumped out at me because IMO they are soooo eerily similar! (Hope it is ok to do this)
Please share your thoughts with me if you don't mind. I'm on here reading as much as I can be but I get logged out often. Work computer!! Anyone, i love all of your imput. :seeya:
Thanx
Long Island Serial Killer VS
Green River Serial killer
Page 5 -Meanwhile, FBI profiler John Douglas re-evaluated the previous profile of the killer and came to a new conclusion, that there were two separate killers. Douglas suggested that, although the profiles of both killers were similar in many ways, the way in which they disposed of the bodies slightly differed. To Douglas, it seemed as if one of the killers went to greater effort to conceal the bodies than the other. Whereas some of the bodies were partially covered or buried in isolated areas, other bodies lay openly exposed to detection, such as those found in the Green River.
Yet again, the killer seemed to be taunting investigators. Even more intriguing was that the partial remains of several other women had been scattered along side the bodies of the two women. Even though the bodies were located a great distance from the others, there was no doubt in the investigators minds that the work was that of the Green River Killer.
Look at page 6, body parts dumped at different places, also possibility of 2 serial killers then a change in the profile of the green river killer. And this
Haney learned from the mans ex-wife that he often frequented the dumpsites, where many of the bodies had been discovered. Also, several prostitutes claimed to have seen a man matching the suspects description regularly cruising the strip between 1982 and 1983. It turned out that the man passed the strip almost daily on his way to work. Some of the most damaging evidence discovered was that the man, who worked as a truck painter, was found to have been absent or off duty on every occasion a victim disappeared.
Interesting!!
Page 7 - According to Time Magazines Terry McCarthy, Ridgway had an unusual sexual appetite. His three ex-wives and several old girlfriends told the reporter that he was sexually insatiable, demanding sex several times a day. Often times, he would want to have sex in a public area or in the woods, even in the areas where some of the bodies had been discovered.
Ridgway was also known to have been obsessed with prostitutes, a fixation that bordered on a love hate relationship. Neighbors knew him to constantly complain about prostitutes conducting business in his neighborhood, but at the same time he frequently took advantages of their favors. It was possible that he was torn by his uncontrollable lusts and his staunch religious beliefs. McCarthy states that according to one of his wives, he became a religious fanatic, often times crying following sermons and reading the bible.
Page 8 - A typical psychopath, Ridgway forgot his victims, had a hard time keeping them straight, never learned their names, and wrote them off as vicarious thrills, never personalizing them at all. They were throwaways to Ridgway: disposable women.
I killed some of them outside. I remember leaving each womans body in the place where she was found, he said. I killed most of them in my house near Military Road, and I killed a lot of them in my truck not far from where I picked them up. He claims that they were all killed in King County, hoping that prosecutors outside King County will buy it and not prosecute him.
Ridgway's contempt for women in general and prostitutes in particular was clear in his plea bargain statement:
I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex. I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.
Ridgway exhibited typical serial killer behavior when he expressed his interest in reliving the murder experience which gave him the sense of empowerment that he lacked in his everyday life. He buried his victims in clusters so that he could drive by and remember the cluster and the pleasure he experienced in the murder of those victims.
