In a deal that would spare his life, Gary L. Ridgway plans to plead guilty next week to more than 40 murders in the Green River serial-killings case, including two slayings that occurred in 1990 and 1998 and had not been attributed to the Green River serial killer, according to a source close to the investigation.
The additional killings represent a stunning development in a case that had been officially limited to a series of 49 deaths between July 1982 and February 1984.
One of the new victims is a woman whose death was previously deemed accidental.
Ridgway, 54, a truck painter from Auburn, was arrested in November 2001 based on DNA evidence. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in seven of the Green River slayings. He faced the death penalty if convicted in those cases.
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I live only a few miles from where they caught this guy. :scared: