『Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway』のカバーアート

Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway

Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway

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The Seattle truck painter who murdered at least forty-nine women along the Green River and highways of Washington State between 1982 and 1998. The task force. The two-decade search. The 2001 DNA hit. The 2003 plea deal. The forty-eight-hour interviews. Life without parole. Every detail he described. The victims still unfound. The one prolific serial killer nobody has heard of the way we know Bundy. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai ノンフィクション犯罪 社会科学
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  • What the Confession Revealed: Forty-Nine Women and the Gaps Left Behind

    What the Confession Revealed: Forty-Nine Women and the Gaps Left Behind
    2026/09/01
    (00:00:00) What the Confession Revealed: Forty-Nine Women and the Gaps Left Behind
    (00:00:38) The Investigation Begins
    (00:01:49) The Suspect Who Walked
    (00:03:18) The DNA Breakthrough
    (00:04:11) The Plea Deal
    (00:05:49) The Victims
    (00:07:00) Ridgway and Bundy
    (00:08:23) Sentence and Aftermath
    (00:10:01) The Record and What It Means

    When Gary Ridgway finally sat across from detectives in 2003, he was calm. Organised. Precise. Over forty-eight recorded hours, he walked investigators through decades of killing along the highway corridors south of Seattle — describing routes, dumping clusters, and return visits to the sites. He remembered the locations far better than he remembered the names. That detail alone tells you something about the nature of what investigators were dealing with.

    This episode follows the full arc of the Green River investigation from its origins in July 1982, when sixteen-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield was pulled from the river in south King County. Within months, King County had formed a dedicated task force and the case was the largest murder investigation in US history. Yet Ridgway had already been interviewed by police, and in 1984 he passed a polygraph test — an outcome that, while meaningless forensically, had a real-world effect on where investigative focus went next.

    The 1987 saliva sample sat in evidence storage for fourteen years. When DNA technology finally caught up in 2001, it matched biological evidence from three victims simultaneously. Ridgway was arrested at the Kenworth Truck Company in November 2001.

    The plea deal that followed was uncomfortable by design. Prosecutors surrendered the death penalty in exchange for full cooperation and forty-eight guilty pleas — the most murder convictions entered against a single defendant in American legal history. What the cooperation revealed was extraordinary. What it still hasn't answered is the subject of the episodes ahead.

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    12 分
  • The Swab in the Locker: How One Sample Survived Fourteen Years

    The Swab in the Locker: How One Sample Survived Fourteen Years
    2026/08/31
    In 1987, King County detectives walked out of Gary Ridgway's home with a saliva swab, a warrant's worth of physical evidence, and nothing they could take to a prosecutor. Ridgway went back to work at Kenworth Truck Company the next morning. The sample sat in an evidence locker for fourteen years. When the DNA technology finally arrived to read it, it closed one of the longest open murder investigations in American law enforcement history.

    This episode traces the investigation from its beginning — the recovery of sixteen-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield from the Green River on July 15, 1982 — through the formation of King County's dedicated task force, and the early moments when Ridgway's name first appeared on the suspect list. Marie Malvar's boyfriend watched her climb into Ridgway's truck in 1983 and led police directly to his front door. Ridgway denied everything. Without enough to charge him, detectives left. Two decades later, he would walk investigators to her remains himself as part of his plea agreement.

    We examine what the investigation was actually up against: the volume of tips overwhelming a two-million-dollar operation, a passed polygraph in 1984 that quietly redirected attention, and a suspect who kept his life so ordinary he functioned as his own cover. The 1987 search warrant produced carpet fibres, rope, and paint residue consistent with the evidence recovered from victims — and still wasn't enough.

    But the detectives who catalogued that saliva swab weren't failing. They were doing exactly what they should have done. This episode is about the cost of doing that right, and what it took to keep the case alive long enough for the science to arrive.

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    13 分
  • The Task Force That Couldn't Stop Him: 1982–1987

    The Task Force That Couldn't Stop Him: 1982–1987
    2026/08/30
    By August 1982, King County investigators were recovering bodies faster than they could build cases. What followed was the most ambitious homicide task force in American history — two million dollars committed by 1983, dozens of open files, and a suspect who had already been questioned and cleared. This episode examines the machinery behind the manhunt and the cascading failures that allowed Gary Ridgway to keep killing for two more decades.

    At the centre of this episode is a decision that still stings. In April 1983, an eyewitness followed his girlfriend into a truck, lost the vehicle, and led investigators directly to Ridgway's door. Police visited. They questioned him. Nothing happened. Without corroborating physical evidence, the lead dissolved into a case file that was already overflowing.

    Then came 1984 and the polygraph. Ridgway submitted. Ridgway passed. In an investigation already stretched beyond its limits — paper files, index cards, no searchable databases — a clean polygraph result was enough to shift the task force's attention elsewhere. Two decades later, sitting in an interview room, Ridgway would confirm he had been lying throughout that test. He had already committed dozens of murders.

    This episode also examines why Ridgway's victim selection was not incidental but strategic — young women, many working as prostitutes, many runaways, whose disappearances generated less immediate alarm. That calculation was central to how he evaded detection for as long as he did. And it's the reason an investigation this large became this hard to run.

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    14 分
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