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I did it my way

By Gary Ridgway

From notes written for police by Gary Ridgway, the “Green River killer,” last fall. Ridgway is currently serving forty-eight consecutive life sentences, having pleaded guilty last year to strangling forty-eight women since 1982. He agreed to cooperate fully in return for being spared the death sentence.

I am a killer of street ladies, not a raper.

I never stabbed any person with a screwdriver or putty knife.

I never killed or hit anybody with a bat, club, or big stick (two-by-four).

I never killed or hurt any body with an axe or hammer.

I never ran anybody over with car, truck, bike to kill or hurt them.

I never shot anybody to kill or wound them.

I never tinted my windows so people couldn't see in.

I never killed any lady that wasn't having some sort of sex for money or rides (no joggers, shop people, neighbors, school kids).

I didn't smoke cigs pipes cigars or chewed tobacco.

No hitting, slapping to any person.

Every lady I did not kill got paid what we both agreed on.

I never used duct tape on any person.

I never used a box cutter on anybody. I bought my ladies, I didn't need force.

I never drugged or got any person drunk to take advantage of them. Did not need to, my way worked out faster. Less trouble.

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SEE ALSO: Ridgway, Gary; Prisoners' writings, American; Serial murderers; Trials, litigation, etc.

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