

“I thought about stabbing her in the chest or in the heart maybe,” he said. Ridgway told a psychologist that he stabbed the kindergartener in part to see how stabbing worked as he fantasized about stabbing his mother, Mary Rita Ridgway. Here are some of the most terrifying close calls with this devastating killer. But there is evidence that some women he wanted to kill did survive. Because he hired sex workers so often, it is unknown how many of his potential murder victims might have survived and never went to the police. In the 1980s, Ridgway was arrested multiple times for solicitation. “They wouldn’t be missed,” he said in a recorded confession. After his arrest, he told police he was doing them a favor, saying, “You guys can’t control them, but I can.” He also admitted to targeting sex workers because he thought he could get away with it. The Green River Killer, named for where the bodies of his first five victims were found in Washington state, strangled mostly sex workers along highways. The kindergartener survived his encounter with Ridgway, who would go on to become one of America’s most prolific serial killers. “I always wondered what it’d be like to kill someone.” This is what 16-year-old Gary Ridgway reportedly said when walking away from his first victim, a 6-year-old who he’d stabbed in the woods.īut Ridgway had only hit his target’s liver. Article Details: Did Anyone Survive the Green River Killer?ĭid Anyone Survive the Green River Killer?
