Gary Ridgway | Confessions of a Serial Killer | S1E10
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2022
- Ridgway remains one of the most prolific murderers in US history who evaded capture for decades and integrated murder into his every day life, even killing prostitutes with his young son waiting in the back of the car
He confessed as part of a plea bargain, but his questioning by king county sheriff Dave Reichart was a masterclass in how to question a serial killer about his dark craft. - Zábava
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up ❗👍👏👍👏👍
“It doesn’t sound like the voice of a monster” literally has the same monotone speech patter as Jeffery dahmer and many other serial killers stricken with psychosis
As someone who has lived in NE WA. Being in high school during this time was scary and confusing. Also, my aunt lived near the Green River. WE worried about her. GR and Bundy are and was despicable!!!!!
The last victim that was identified as a result of the confessions was my childhood friends older sister.I saw several of the police crime scenes when bodies were found as a kid.
I grew up less than 1.5 miles from the stretch of pac hiway he used to hunt.
@@jacobishii6121 scary.
Yup! I lived in Federal Way & I worked at the super mall in Auburn WA and we used to go fishing at the Green River , the Psycho lived in Auburn and worked at Kenworth truck in Renton in that time when he got caught . Greetings from the Sonoran Desert. Mexico
@@antoniobanderas9769 He tried to pick up my friend one night, right down the street from Renton Highschool. He thought she was a prostitute, and didn't see us sitting there behind her because it was dark. I think it shook him up because he got caught a few months after that.
He did everyone a favor getting rid of them.
I respect what this gentleman has done and what he represents I have watched other documentaries with this gentleman in it and his knowledge is spot on
It must be haunting when these monsters say what they have done
I lived in Everette. Worked as a cocktail waitress at the now defunct and permanently closed Honeys, gentlemen’s club (due to it being a brother).It was 1999 and he was lose. Makes me wonder how many of the girls there may have been his victims.
These are brilliant iv watched a few glad I found them as I typed in David Wilson as I'm a fan of him got a few of his books ect
I’ve always felt that Ridgeway was the most prolific serial killer in the United States.
Yuck these experts and psychologists absolutely ruin these shows
44:27 “He’s now a Mr. Nobody again”. No, obviously he’s not! If he was I wouldn’t have watched a well made documentary only dedicated to infamous Green River Killer for 45 minutes. His notoriety lives on forever. Much thanks to people like yourselves ;) Think about that for a second. Great documentary by the way!
That criminologist I did not agree with many things he said .. he is not objective but emotional and reactive not like David Wilson who is great , very scientific based and objective
I hope you're including yourself in that yourselves. You obviously watched it as well. But one thing, I hope, you're not a "Green Groupie!" that writes and calls and whatever else they do.🙂
He did everyone a favor getting rid of them.
"Thanks to people like yourselves" are you serious? Did someone force you to watch this video? The people that you are judging would never make these videos if people didn't watch it. What a huge hypocrite
The guy portraying Ridgway has a smart phone in his back pocket. In the mid-1980s!
Are there going to be any videos of Gary confessing in your confession titled show?....
No shit right
The estimated murder cost is transferable, DeLisi says: Any murder, anywhere in the country, costs society somewhere on the order of $17 million. That means the worst offender in the Iowa State study, convicted of nine killings, imposed a $153 million cost on society. The 48 convicted murders of Gary Ridgway, perhaps the most prolific American murderer currently in prison, cost the country $816 million and still rising.
If Ned Flanders was a serial killer
It's well understood now that it takes two factors to make someone like that - genetics / physiology, (such as head injury) mixed with trauma. 'Nature loads the gun but nurture pulls the trigger'. Secondly, these things aren't 'excuses'. They're reasons for why the 'trigger' was pulled in the loaded gun. For people interested in further listening, I'd strongly recommend the podcast 'Making a monster' where the psychologists who treated notorious British killer Robert Maudsley (part inspiration for Hannibal Lector) talks about him. He said that Maudsley was like so many others who had had traumatic childhoods (and this applies to many people, not just criminals). They become stuck in the moment and constantly try and reclaim, re-write and re-live their pasts, but this time with them in control. In Maudsley's mind, the abuse he suffered as a child wasn't happening 50 years ago, it was happening NOW and he was still the vulnerable angry child, lashing out. The psychologist said a lot of his therapy involved getting Maudsley to look into a mirror he'd brought with him - to get him to know that he was no longer the helpless child who was being abused by his parents. He was now a fully grown man and they couldn't hurt him any more. It underlines what trauma does to people, often in very subtle ways. It traps them in the moment, leaves them stunted, constantly re-living it and seeking to re-write it. It's known in psychology as 'repetition compulsion' - it goes some way to explaining too why some people keep going back to destructive relationships.
I can only agree if that therapy can beat them to the "chase".What I think is absolutely absurd. Is releasing these people because some ahole in a doctors suit thinks they are no longer a threat to society. I can't see someone who methodically ended someone's life get a "second chance", regardless of the underlying issues.
Your both peanuts
Anne Rule,the green river good book
"Green River Running Red, " great book. RIP Ann ❤
I just bought it the other day, had to put it down for a few days because I was trying not to cry.
I think it’s so weird that Gary Ridgway and Green River have the same initials. I wonder if this was intentional by him as a kind of hint to investigators.
No, because he didn't name himself. The press named him. He didn't interact with police or media at all while he was active, unlike many did.... son of Sam, btk, etc... they both declared their own names to the media.
A dozen of forensic psychologists and criminologists and whoever more in this video and I believe they're all seeing too much in his anger towards his mother, sexual frustration blablabla. Many people experience these feelings, but fortunately only a very small percentage turn into becoming a serial killer. These people 'just' have their brains wired differently. Unfortunate for them because they cannot control their urges (like most of us) and they end up in jail or on death row, but unimaginable much more unfortunate for their victims who must have suffered horribly and their families who have suffered such great losses.
The real disturbing thing is his attraction to his mother...
The bond is extremely important for a child with their mother and father.
Scary to think what young kids see in their mothers of today's world of only fans and social media.
I would say easily 90%+ of issues with kids and society is down to bad parenting. This includes serial killers.
@@drsparwaga
Nurture or nature
That is still open for debate. Very Interesting though 👌
He was trying to connect with her. She was so emotionally and probably physically removed from him that his brain began to fantasise about the most intimate act of all in order to equalise the pain he felt from that rejection.
I think the absence of real FATHER'S (not just sperm donors) in the home is a bigger problem that whether or not a boy gets turned on by his mother.
His mother did not help. According to interviews, she often dressed provocatively. She bathed him even when he was in his teens. Also, she was very verbally and even physically violent towards his father, who never stood up for himself. I think Gary had issues, but if he had decent parents, I think he would have learned new tools for expressing his emotions.
I'm tired of hearing people described as god-fearing as though that makes them somehow good. Many murders are in the name of a god.
I think they only meant that his fake persona was a "God fearing", "normal" and decent human being. When of course in reality, he was a monster.
The vast majority of which are committed in the name of Allah.
Actually, there've been more killed in the name of Stalin, Mao and Hitler in the 20th C alone than in the combined 3,400 years of Christianity and Islam.
God doesn't exist, these people are just insane. Thats it.
@@AnCapCat
Yea of course,
We Muslims, we annihilated the indigenous ppl of America and Australia, we enslaved the blacks and exposed in Zoos like animals , we started the world wars , Hitler and Stalin were both Muslims u know, we invaded Vietnam and many countries in Asia , and we destroyed Iraq and Syria , ..., Well enough about history, what about Fucking Serial killers, just take a look,how many psychos in the western world compared to the Islamic world, ...
I’m not a big fan of the police, but when it comes to murder investigations and sexual crimes, they have all of my support. Sheriff Dave Reichart is a major bad ass. He does a great job in his interrogation!
Reichart and the whole task force were incompetent as hell. They should've had Ridgway in the mid-80s had they gotten off their lazy butts. If it wasn't for DNA, Ridgway and his wife would still be enjoying a quiet retirement.
Sorry, I’d have to disagree. One fact: Gary had a “dumping ground” and his first wife led detectives there because that is where Gary wanted to have sex with her. So, did the police stake out that dumping ground? No. He even went back to the same locations and had sex with the corpses. But he was never caught in the act. Weird. I will say, the cops stuck with the case, but not with a stellar performance. Although, if it were up to Detective Matt Haney, Ridgeway would have been arrested in the 80s, but that task force officers and lead investigators dismissed and ignored his suggestions. So Gary kept on killing, as he said, “Because I could get away with it.”
The ppl that catch these serial killers are you usually the sheriff "andy taylors " or "barneys " of the world , not the highly paid FBI type guys(they only want to protect thier jobs, the only interest they have ) , thats why im not a fan of the law .
So you are a fan then.
My older sisters went to school with two of the victims so sad , they were teenagers
How is he a Mr. Nobody when years later, he's still very much notorious and a subject in various topics?
He will write you back, but he will not engage in any kind of conversation let alone his case. He will send you some sort of bible study thing and encourages you to go with Christ. He signs the letter but it’s bizarre to go to your mailbox and a letter preaching the gospel from Gary Ridgway. Kinda like. Welllllll my good sir; I thought a guy who killed about 100 women would be a little harder than that
Lmfao!!
Pure show
This comment section is certainly, um, interesting. Everything from low grade trolls to psych inpatients on the unit computer running the clock until their next dose of meds.
I was living in a receiving home in the CD District...My caseworker at CPS warned me of the dangers and informed me a girl or my age was killed under his watch by the green river killer....this didn't detour me from Hitchhiking from the CD district to Bellevue....at least that was my intention, My friend Laquita was picked up first....(she was only hitchiking to Renton) and after what seemed like forever, a car came to a halt in front of me.Of couse I eagerly jumped in the car....and as I remember it this is what happend. The first thing that pops in my mind is the sound of him locking my door from his side. He proceeded to tell me "make yourself comfortable becuase your'e not going anywhere, take it easy and sit tight.Additionally he said that I could help myself to a beer in the globe box. Please understand me...at this point I realized the severity of the situation, My survival insticts kicked in immediately....I looked him straight in the eyes and although I don't remember the exact words I used...it went something like"Hey dude whats wrong with you? I wanna have fun, I am relaxed....lets get this party started. (In reality I was so fucking scared you have no idea!) I kicked backthe seat in this old model car and I did my best to look like a girl with no worries in the world, I remember him driving around the block 2-4 times....notably frusterated . Sorry the small talk I dont remember....what I do remember is the irritation that came upon him suddenly...He was flustered. He said " You have no idea how lucky you are today, I am going to stop, let you out and give you 5 $. and you are going to run as fast as you can before I regret the decision to let you go.... (apologies - this is the first time I have spoken of this trauma)
I had a similar thing happen to me only it was a guy posing as a taxi driver. He had a yellow cab with all the decals and even a taxi meter. It’s a long story, but I survived and the police who investigated said the guy must’ve bought the car at a police auction and I’m extremely lucky to be alive. I strongly believe that I’m alive today because I chose not to panic at all. I pretended to be the guy’s friend and even his damn therapist finally convincing him that I’d go on a date with him the following weekend if he’d just take me home. My ordeal lasted several hours and was very terrifying but he finally let me go. I had him drop me off near my neighborhood. I ran and hid in someone’s yard until I knew he was gone (he kept circling the street). As soon as it was safe, I ran home as fast as I could and called the police. As far as I know, they never made an arrest. They believe I was a test run. I hope to God he’s not still out there kidnapping and, by now, hurting/killing young women.
You and I are very lucky to be alive because we chose not to react even though we were scared out of our minds! It pays to be smart.
I don't think he's a Mr nobody.. not with the amount of documentaries there are about him.. it's a double edge sword.. people are interested in the real life monsters, but that also makes sick people seek out infamy like it... We do need to learn from them, but we can't idolize them.. sick and talentless people will look killing being an easy way to fame...
“Lip sync technology”, lol.
C’mon. David.
I can’t imagine being one of his family members.
It is puzzling that those experts can talk about somebody like Ridgway with such certainty. I believe this level of understanding somebody is possible only with extreme empathy and an ability to put oneself in his shoes so to speak. It seems more like they create a label, and from that moment, Ridgway is no longer a complex individual but a generalized theoretical concept. However, I am aware that this opinion of mine is strongly influenced by my frustrating experiences with psychiatry where a person becomes a dehumanized diagnosis, and is treated that way.
I agree with most of this. Except, the psychology industry wasn't dehumanizing Ridgway. When he brutally murdered a young woman and dumped her body in the river, he dehumanized himself.
@jacquesdemolay4516 You make no sense. I am not demonic. We are all sinners in need of Christ, but I am redeemed by Him, so I am not the same as Ridgway. I am a sinner, but I am not demonic, like he is. You make no sense.
@@moriyarose3587 Please speak for yourself!! I am Jewish. Many people have different faiths. I dont need you to tell me I'm a sinner because of your brainwashing. I know all Christians believe JESUS is the only way to be "Saved". Of course YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS WANTS. YOU KNOW WHAT GOD'S PLAN IS RIGHT. YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ALL GODS AND THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD. HOW ARROGANT AND SELF.SERVING YOU ARE. EVERYONE IS GOING TO HELL EXCEPT JEWS DON'T BELIEVE IN HELL. IT IS A DISGUSTING FAIRY TALE OF ETERNAL TORTURE ALL IS BULL SHIT. SO GO HELP SOMEONE WITHOUT SHOVING JESUS DOWN OUR THROATS.
A “Mr. Nobody” ? The fact you are doing a documentary of him, along with hundreds more makes him a “somebody”.
Listen to him, not the others he fits the bill of serial killer, it starts with small animals, he killed the family cat, he stab a 6 year old when he was 14. His mother is nasty and wrong on so many levels. She made this monster
Giselle was a very intelligent person. She was 17. Not an adult prostitute. 😢
Not just confessed... he had the remorse..
The good professor once filmed a bit just outside my kitchen window, after Joanna Dennehy got all stabby.
What? He left the bodies by the river and the river are great places to leave bodies? Out of 49-70 he killed, he left 5 by the river. 3 of those bodies are the ones that contained the dna that got him caught. If he didn't leave those 3 bodies by the river he might still be active.
It's very puzzling that so many teens took this route and didn't make it For those who did what did they do different?..... What was some of resdon ppl ran away in those days was it really that bad at home and what was the lure to the streets? Drugs, music?.sex, rebellion. Angst? Was the harsh realities known of the dangers lurking??
They were probably unaware of the dangers of the area. No cell phone, no internet, and the news was only on 1 channel for 1 hour. Ridgeway's 3rd wife had never even heard of the green river killer. As far as why there were runaways, they were being raised by young boomers lol
Sick , sick , sick. He also said he didn’t want to pay them.
The lip synching in this is awesome
Thought i was going to hear some confessions not 25 brits droning on & on
as long as you didn't show any fear when he picked you up....
Ridgway,Shawcross,Chikatilo and Hansen are the most disgusting entities among all serial killers Heard off
This is the first documentary of a serial killer I have seen that acknowledges the extent of how a killer’s relationship with his mother turned him into a murderer. I have been saying this for a long time that the relationship they have with their parents is a prime source for their behaviour. Serial killers are a product of their childhoods. Thought it was strange that though these issues were generally mentioned even in other serial killers’ documentaries, none looked at this issue more closely in their cases.
Ted, Ed & John addressed issues/non issues with their parents
Not sure if this applies to Jeffrey Dahmer
no shit, sherlock!?
Or they are narcicist blaming someone else for their actions. His mother wanted his to do better in school? Oh what a terrible woman. Not all serial killers come from abusive families. But they are all narcict , cons, manipulators, they say what you want to hear, and blame others. 😁
They all mostly say that
I lived in greenwater back then and one morning on my way down a mile above mud mountain dam I felt a spirit of a girl going over or around my car . If I had it over I would have contacted the task force . To find out if it liner up with a missing person .
I think they might have said, "one more for the watchlist."😁
How is it 'dangerous' tsking him to the grave sites?
The actor isn’t anything like Gary Ridgway. Gary had a welcoming smile and was very gracious to all his interrogators. He camouflaged his evil internal self, I think, even to the extent of receiving HIS sentence. How or why on earth should a career MURDERER make a “plea deal” to save HIS life??? What type of justice is that?
To get closure and info for the family and to study for science it's not very often you get this and it also helps keep most of the info out of public view so he could of done it for his own family to not make a spectacul cause if it goes to trial than everything becomes public knowledge it's an incentive to get them to talk when they otherwise likely wouldn't
He killed 2 of my friends. Me and another friend were standing in the yard just chit chatting. She needed money to help get her younger siblings food n what not. She left. Never seen her again. Alive. 😢 we seen pics of her when the detectives/task forse came around. I think he should of been hurt every day of his life. Wonder how did his son turned out?.
Moustache. Square glasses. Nice guy. Run.
Try the timeline and facts! Your oppinions are not fact!
Twisted.
That's not Gary ridgeway with them big f off glasses on?
😂
In 1979 my sister and I cross the line to stay the weekend at our friend's trailer in Lake Sammamish. We took the canoe out and had to stop at the community Hall. Police and people were running around, so didn't stay. When we got back to Vancouver, found out it was Ted Bundy. My sister in law told me her brother Grant Frederickson ( a White Rock D.J.) helped by taken up funds to keep the investigation & open & was caught shortly after. I use to see Robert Picton every Friday, when I use to pick up my I.L.W.U. husband at the Astoria Hotel in the 90's. He also claimed to have killed 49 & was hoping to make 50. 😥 A family member worked DTES Women's Association, and lost 80% of her client's.
Grant keep Ridgeways investigation.
Bundy was in prison in ‘79 in Florida
Eh. If she wasn’t a hooker she was fine. Ted was in Florida state prison in 79 and Gary was 3 years away from killing hookers.
I don’t believe stories from people “oh Ted Bundy approached my (insert relative)” it’s really silly bullshit
@@justinpaquette4970 yeah people think we are all stupid. 79 was actually a relatively safe year in those areas. Morons seeking attention. Oooh hey man Ted Bundy approached my sister in 79. Yeah Ok man. Was your sister a prison guard in Florida🤦🏼♂️
I wish you didn’t abbreviate so I understood what your husband was?
Some fucked up folk up in Washington State 😂.
This guy was operating for nearly 20 years yet went unnoticed.I can't help feeling something wrong with the guys who were suppose to catch him,surely at one stage or another something should have been apparent.
I think a lot of the sk’s back then got away without being caught because dna was just being studied then and was too new .
@@OGRuth I agree. All the serial killers we hear about now all happened in the 50's to the 90's, or around that time. It's probably almost impossible to operate the way they did with today's technology and forensics. Hopefully, the super scary killers that get away with it for so long are a little bit a thing of the past.
35.49…. This guy is a murderer too…
He CLEARLY explained why he hated his mother….. she was too sexual
Ovo je dramatizacija pa što niste org,
The lean mean killing machine himself
How come these psychiatrists wearing the same clothes the whole season
They probably did several cases at the same time/day. It's very simple, it's not at all complicated.
It’s not hard to figure out that clearly they filmed all of them the same day
Dumbing down on full display, good god.
Monster.😢
that living are where they live north west is just not good for humans spirit
There’s no hate like Christian love.
What would have become of his pickup truck? I borrowed.a truck that could have been and most likely was Gary's truck.. You would think that it would have been destroyed but instead it was lifted and painted. then sold in Mt. Vernon.
8:00 She is talking absolute crap.
Why not show the actual interview segments instead of this crappy reenactment? The actor portraying GR is terrible.
they all killed and murdered Street woman
He’s wrong about something .. he said he liked killing . No . He was very nice to everyone else . I speak to him frequently and we have become friends ( over the phone ). He is not a monster . He’s a really nice man ( if you met him at a bbq you would say the same ) . There were horrible things that happened to him starting with his childhood that led him to kill prostitutes . By no means am I saying it was right . There are reasons though . He reads the Bible now every day and is well informed with current events etc . I’d personally feel safe with him . Please don’t hate on me for seeing the good in someone who did things he has asked God forgiveness for .
He also stopped for the most part when he married his 3rd wife . I disagree with these criminologists . I have been speaking to him for 3 years a couple times a week . I disagree with some of their assessments .
You would definitely be one of his victims if he had the chance. He preyed on gullible women like you.
@@OGRuth 😂😂😂😂😂 seek mental help. Lots of it.
How do you write to him ?
I am sure there is alot yes abuse is a major factor but he killed teenage girls pregnant women. I am reading about the case since I work in the area and drive around the area all the time.
It's so sad he didn't get the help he needed when he was a child with his learn disability and abuse. I am sure he would have been a different person if he got the help he needed
The BS about his mother being looked at by him as a sex object is probably the biggest nonsense he could possibly utter.... He probably looked up some stuff about psychology, related to killers and spun his story around that. It's a big weakness of normal people and empaths to have that reflex of thinking that evil has a source in a person's past, which made him/her as the evil they are. And in many cases there are such circumstances... it's just, in just as many cases there were no such conditions. It's important i think for any psychologist or detective to see if there is factual truth about abuse in their past, or derailed fantasies ( medical, psychological reports from childhood or so). If there's no such evidence to find, you can count on it they are playing everyone.
Almost zero content of interview at all.
Zoe ball hasn't aged well
He is a sicko killer.
Never fails to make me laugh..."cutting edge lip sync technology...".
You really need to explain just what that is, my dude.
Also, Ridgway did not "bury his victims"
They were left in the open air, up and down the river.
It's why they were found, in the first place.
Basic research, Prof.
Some were actually buried in shallow graves, and only a handful of victims were left by or in Green River. After they found the first 3 bodies (IIRC there were 2 more along the river) he started dumping them elsewhere in clusters of 3-5 bodies generally.
Re the lip syncing... I think they bounced the camera around during the interviews so we couldn't tell if they were doing a good job or not. I'll bet Bad Lip Reading could do a thing with this if it wasn't so tragic.
I cannot continue to listen to constant ummmms uhhhhhhs and ahhhhh. Its bloody annoying.
That PEACE acronym is probably the worst mnemonic I've ever come across.
I have always wanted to do the same as Gary but I don’t like jail
This show is terrible in gathering and distributing info about these people.
You wasted your time on this trash. Ridgway was forced into false confessions and solid real evidence proves cops tampered with evidence and forced false confessions under threat from Ridgway - he never told cops where victims were because they found them first alone based on logic with no help at all from Ridgway - they had a plan and it worked. They framed Ridgway with no question about it. The murderer never stopped with Ridgway's arrest and official Green River skeletal remains were put on public display by the real killer while Ridgway was in prison.
Wake up to orality and save your bias for someone else.
Facts and evidence learned as a result of one missing girl's case out of Puyallup, WA demonstrates very clearly that Gary Ridgway IS NOT The Green River Killer.
See how police tampered with evidence, lied profoundly and manipulated Gary Ridgway into false confessions.
See how David Reichert and former Det. Tom Jensen found official Green River victims while Ridgway sat in jail and with no help from Ridgway at all but then made it only appear s though he told them where to look to be sure to con the prosecutor into acceptant his false confessions.
See the truth of the real Green River killer and see how much he looked like Gary Ridgway - people easily confused one for the other with poor 20 year old memories. . .
Fact is they framed Ridgway.
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@@natureboy4397 Ridgway is not the Green River killer whatsoever. Randy Achziger was and he died last year in Puyallup, WA hospital at age 62.