Green River Killer

Gary Leon Ridgway is seen in this 1982 King County Sheriff's booking mugshot, left, and an undated King County Sheriff's booking mugshot. Ridgway was arrested Nov. 30, 2001 for investigation of homicide in the deaths of four women slain in 1982 by the so-called Green River Killer.

Victims of the Green River killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, are shown in this photo combo. Top row from left: Wendy Lee Coffield, Gisele Ann Lovvorn, Debra Lynn Bonner, Marcia Faye Chapman, Cynthia Jean Hinds. Bottom row from left: Opal Charmaine Mills, Terry Rene Milligan, Mary Bridget Meehan, Debra Lorraine Estes, Linda Jane Rule.

Victims of the Green River killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, are shown in this photo combo. Top row, from left: Denise Darcel Bush, Shawnda Leea Summers, Shirley Marie Sherrill, Colleen Renee Brockman, Alma Ann Smith. Bottom row, from left: Delores LaVerne Williams, Gail Lynn Mathews, Andrea M. Childers, Sandra Kay Gabbert, Kimi-Kai Pitsor.

Victims of the Green River killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, are shown in this photo combo. Top row, from left: Debbie May Abernathy, Tracy Ann Winston, Maureen Sue Feeney, Mary Sue Bello, Pammy Avent. Bottom row, from left: Delise Louise Plager, Kimberly L. Nelson, Lisa Yates, Mary Exzetta West, Cindy Anne Smith.

Victims of the Green River killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, are shown in this photo combo. Top row, from left: Marie M. Malvar, Carol Christensen, Martina Theresa Authorlee, Cheryl Lee Wims, Yvonne Shelly Antosh. Bottom row, from left: Carrie A. Rois, Constance Elizabeth Naon, Kelly Marie Ware, Tina Marie Thompson, April Dawn Buttram.

Victims of the Green River killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, are shown in this photo combo. From left: Patricia Michelle Barczak, Roberta Joseph Hayes, Marta Reeves, Patricia Yellow Robe.

Shirley Bonner, 79, of Tacoma, at looks at pictures of her daughter Debra as a child, at her kitchen table in Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 29, 2003. Her daughter, Debra Lynn Bonner, who was found dead in 1982, is believed to have been one of Ridgway's victims.

Kathy Mills holds a copy of the book she wrote about the life and death of her daughter Opal at the church where she works in Kent, Wash., Nov. 4, 2003. Opal was one of seven women whose deaths Gary Leon Ridgway was charged with in the Green River serial killings case.

Kathy Mills, right, is shown with her daughter Opal, in this 1979 family photo. Opal was one of seven women whose deaths Gary Leon Ridgway was charged with in the Green River serial killings case. Mills planned to be in the courtroom when Ridgway entered his guilty plea.

Gary Leon Ridgway appears at a pretrial hearing in King County Superior Court, March 27, 2003, in Seattle.

Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway, center wearing tan jacket and cap, is shown searching an area of King County near Seattle with law enforcement officials in this undated photo provided by the King County Prosecutor's Office. On Nov. 5, 2003, Ridgway plead guilty to 48 murders dating back more than 20 years.

Mona Joyner of Seattle stands at the King County Courthouse in Seattle, Nov. 5, 2003, prior to a hearing for accused killer Gary Leon Ridgway. Joyner said she was there in support of all women who have been victims of violent crimes.

Sarah Christensen talks to reporters as she holds a photograph of herself as a child with her mother Carol Ann Christensen, before Carol Christensen became a victim of the Green River Killer, Nov. 5, 2003, in Seatac, Wash. Earlier in the day, Gary Leon Ridgway pleaded guilty to killing 48 women.

The portrait of Debra Estes, 15 years old when she was slain by Gary Ridgway, sits in a seat by her mother, Carol Estes and sister, Virginia Graham, right, Nov. 5, 2003, during a press conference of family members of Green River Killing victims at the Seatac, Wash., City Hall.

Gary Ridgway, center, initials the guilty plea agreement in court, Nov. 5, 2003, in the King County Courthouse in Seattle, in which he pleaded guilty to 48 murders. The Green River Killer serial murder case began in 1982 and was the largest unsolved serial murder case in American history. Attorney at left is Mark Prothero.

Dawn Montoya cries as she leaves the King County Courthouse in Seattle, Nov. 5, 2003, during a hearing for accused killer Gary Ridgway. Montoya, who said she once had drinks with Ridgway, wears the name of her friend Terry Milligan, who police believe was killed by Ridgway, on her shirt.

Unidentified family members react as Gary Ridgway pleads guilty, Nov. 5, 2003, in the King County Courthouse in Seattle.

Debra York, the aunt of Green River murder victim Cynthia Hinds, is comforted by Deniece Griffin after Gary Ridgway's court appearance in Seattle, Wash., Nov. 5, 2003. Griffin was a friend of three of the victims, Hinds, Marie Malvar, and Opal Mills.