Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! We are starting season three with a major episode, something we’ve wanted to cover for a while. This week starts our multi-part series on Gary Ridgway, better known as the Green River Killer. In this episode we cover Ridgway’s past, starting at his childhood, diving into how he was raised, and how that shaped the adolescent and adult he would later become. We end the episode in 1982 which is when our first verified GRK victim goes missing. To give you a taste of what is yet to come we dive into the very first murder attributed to Gary Ridgway.
 
This episode contains foul language, graphic discussions about rape, murder, body sites, child and animal abuse. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!
 


Sources:

Brenda Lackey, Carlie Jones, Julie Johnson - Assessment from Radford University Psychology Department

Ann Rule, Green River Running Red

Eric W Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims

Sheriff David Reichert, Chasing the Devil

Prosecutor’s Summary of Evidence

Blaine Hardin, Washington Post, November 16th, 2003

Sean Robinson, The News Tribune, December 16th, 2001

Katherine Ramsland, PhD, Psychology Today, Triad of Evil

Green River Killer Case: HistoryLink.org

David Quigg, The News Tribune, “A Different View of the Ridgway Family”, Dec 20, 2001

Green River Victim’s Family Finds Peace in Forgiveness: Seattle PI Article