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Richard Charles Haefner versus the County of Lancaster, PA, June 25, 1982.

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Haefner v. County of Lancaster, PA, 543 F. Supp. 264 (E.D. Pa. 1982). Citation: 543 F. Supp. 264, Docket Number: 82-1018.
Date: June 25, 1982, US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Richard C. Haefner versus the county of Lancaster, PA.; the Lancaster County Prison. Police Department: Jerry P. Crump, individually and as a Police Officer of the City of Lancaster Police Department; Howard H. Snyder, individually and as a Police Officer of the City of Lancaster Police Department; James Burkey; Kevin Burkey; Thomas Dommel, individually and as Captain of the Guard at Lancaster County Prison; Randy Klivansky and Kathleen V. Mumma, individually and as an employee of the County of Lancaster, Court of Common Pleas.
Civ. A. No. 82-1018, US District Court, ED Pennsylvania.

Richard R. Galli, Philadelphia, Pa., for Dommel and Mumma; Christopher W. Mattson, Lancaster, Pa., for City of Lancaster; J. Richard Gray, Lancaster, Pa., for Klivansky.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER, District Judge Troutman:

Res judicata rests upon considerations of “economy of judicial time and public policy favoring the establishment of legal relations”. Sea-Land Services v. Gaudet, 414 U.S. 573, 578, 94 S. Ct. 806, 811, 39 L. Ed. 2d 9 (1974), quoting Commissioner v. Sunnen, 333 U.S. 591, 597, 68 S. Ct. 715, 719, 92 L. Ed. 898 (1948). Described as a “fundamental rule of substantial justice” rather than a “mere matter of practice or procedure inherited from more technical times” it should be “cordially regarded and enforced by the courts”. Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie, 452 U.S. 394, 401, 101 S. Ct. 2424, 2429, 69 L. Ed. 2d 103, 111 (1981) (quotations omitted). Res judicata serves the salutary purposes of “encourag[ing] reliance on judicial decisions [and], bar[ring] vexatious litigation [while] free[ing] courts to resolve other disputes”. Brown v. Felsen, 442 U.S. 127, 131, 99 S. Ct. 2205, 2209, 60 L. Ed. 2d 767 (1979). In order to successfully invoke its protections, three prerequisites need be established: the parties to the instant suit must be the same or in privity with those in the prior litigation; a court of competent jurisdiction must have entered a valid, final judgment on the merits; and the present action must concern the same subject-matter or cause of action as the prior suit. Coggins v. Carpenter, 468 F. Supp. 270, 280 (E.D.Pa.1979). Finding that these conditions have been met, we grant defendants’ motions to dismiss.

Plaintiff originally instituted suit against a plethora of Lancaster City and County public officials and private citizens and charged them with violations of The Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(2) and state claims based upon tortious conduct. Specifically, plaintiff’s first suit alleged that in his business as a rock collector he had employed, and then fired, defendant K. Burkey. In retaliation for his firing, K. Burkey allegedly conspired with co-defendants J. Burkey and Klivansky to secure a criminal prosecution of plaintiff. The three defendants then supposedly met and conspired with law enforcement officials who arrested plaintiff and charged him with corruption of a minor, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. Thereafter, defendant law enforcement officials subjected plaintiff to harassment, intimidation and abuse and, along with other defendants, maliciously prosecuted plaintiff for crimes which they knew he did not commit. To effectuate their illegal conspiratorial goal, various defendants committed perjury at plaintiff’s preliminary hearing and subsequent trial, sought to illegally pressure plaintiff into tendering a guilty plea, improperly investigated and interviewed potential jurors and threatened and intimidated defense witnesses. Upon completion of plaintiff’s trial, which ended in a hung jury, he was sentenced to prison this for contemptuous conduct. While in the county prison, plaintiff was allegedly subjected to various abuses and forced to reveal information critical to and necessary for his defense at re-trial.

*266 The Commonwealth’s attempt to re-try plaintiff was successfully blocked by decision of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, grounded upon double jeopardy considerations. See Commonwealth v. Haefner, 264 Pa.Super. 144, 399 A.2d 707 (1979). We dismissed plaintiff’s first suit because it was time-barred. See Haefner v. County of Lancaster, 520 F. Supp. 131 (E.D.Pa.1981), aff’d, 681 F.2d 806 (3d Cir. 1982).

Plaintiff’s current suit is predicated upon the same general events outlined above; they commenced in August, 1975. Additional allegations are contained in the instant suit, which, plaintiff urges, assert a new dimension to the prior suit and obstruct or exclude application of res judicata. Specifically, plaintiff now informs the Court that he was subjected to multiple prosecutions. The first lawsuit was predicated upon false charges inspired by defendant K. Burkey. The case at bar, plaintiff asserts, is grounded in false charges inspired by defendant Klivansky. Unlike the “Burkey-inspired” charges, the “Klivansky-inspired” charges were not the subject of the mistrial which eventually resulted in litigation before the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Moreover, plaintiff now argues that the “Klivansky-inspired” charges were outstanding until March 7, 1980, at which time they were nolle prossed on the basis of insufficient evidence. The unlawful conspiracy now alleged and relating to the “Klivansky-inspired” charges includes defendants’ supposed failure to comply with a Court order requiring them to expunge plaintiff’s arrest record. See Commonwealth v. Haefner, 291 Pa.Super. 604, 436 A.2d 665 (1981).

We turn now to our analysis of the issue involved. The first element necessary to establishment of a res judicata bar, the requirement that the subsequent action be brought against the same parties as the initial action, is met here. The presence of defendant Mumma, the only defendant not named in the first suit, does not compel a contrary result. Coggins v. Carpenter, 468 F. Supp. at 280.

We have equally little trouble finding that the second required element, a final, valid judgment on the merits, is met. A dismissal for failure to state a claim is a “judgment on the merits”. Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie, 452 U.S. at 399, 101 S. Ct. at 2428, n. 3, 69 L. Ed. 2d at 109, n. 3; Hubicki v. ACF Industries, Inc., 484 F.2d 519, 523 (3d Cir. 1973); Hayes v. New England Millwork Distributors, Inc., 485 F. Supp. 459, 461 (D.Mass.1980); Coggins v. Carpenter, 468 F. Supp. at 280. Likewise, dismissal of a suit as time-barred establishes a res judicata bar. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., N.A. v. Randell, 485 F. Supp. 39 (S.D.N.Y.1979).

The third element, whether this suit concerns the same subject-matter as the first one, is the final subject of inquiry. Plaintiff argues that the factual predicate of this suit is grounded in the “Klivansky-inspired” charges while the basis of the first suit was the “Burkey-inspired” charges. Moreover, since the “Klivansky-inspired” charges were not terminated until some time after the “Burkey-inspired” ones and because they included the improper failure to expunge plaintiff’s arrest record, plaintiff asseverates that this suit is a separate cause of action. Finally, plaintiff points to Fed.R. Civ.P. 18(a) which provides that “[a] party asserting a claim to relief as an original claim … may … join … as many claims … as he has against an opposing party” (emphasis added), and urges that he was not required to bring all claims against all parties in the first suit. We disagree.

A res judicata bar is erected against suits which seek to relitigate issues which “were or could have been raised” in the first action. Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp., _ U.S. , , n. 6, 102 S. Ct. 1883, 1889, n. 6, 72 L. Ed. 2d 262 (1982). In determining what was or could have been raised in the first suit and whether the same claim is again raised, courts are required to determine the degree of consanguinity between the two suits.

Numerous formulae, each attempting to make that determination, have developed. Some courts consider whether the “same *267 evidence supports both claims and whether the essential facts in the second [suit] were present in the first”. Tucker v. Arthur Anderson & Co., 646 F.2d 721, 727 (2nd Cir. 1981). Others hold that “different legal theories” spawned by a “single alleged wrong” may not form the basis of a second suit. Cemer v. Marathon Oil Co., 583 F.2d 830, 832 (6th Cir. 1978).

The Third Circuit has articulated this standard:

If the second suit relates to the same cause of action as the first … it can be said that the first judgment dismissing the previous suit “with prejudice” bars a later suit on the same cause of action.
Gambocz v. Yelencsics, 468 F.2d 837, 842 (3d Cir. 1972) (emphasis added) (quotations omitted). Another way of expressing the focus of the court’s inquiry requires reference to whether the claims “arose out of the same transaction” Cramer v. General Telephone & Electronics Corp., 582 F.2d 259, 267 (3d Cir. 1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1129, 99 S. Ct. 1048, 59 L. Ed. 2d 90 (1979), or are predicated upon the same “liability creating conduct”. Ley v. Boron Oil Co., 454 F. Supp. 448, 450 (W.D.Pa.1978). See also Borough of Lansdale v. Philadelphia Electric Co., 517 F. Supp. 218, 222 (E.D.Pa.1981); Coggins v. Carpenter, 468 F. Supp. at 280; Sims v. Mack Trucks, Inc., 463 F. Supp. 1068, 1069 (E.D.Pa.1979).

The “liability creating conduct” complained of in the first suit appeared, at that time, to relate to a series of charges allegedly motivated and inspired by defendants K. Burkey and Klivansky. For example, the first complaint charged that both defendants worked for plaintiff and conspired inter se to willfully subject him to false criminal charges. First Complaint ¶¶ 17, 19. Without any attempt to distinguish between the conduct of defendants K. Burkey and Klivansky, it alleged that both of them filed false charges with law enforcement officers. First Complaint ¶¶ 20, 21. The next allegation of joint K. Burkey/Klivansky misconduct asserted that plaintiff was arrested due to the false information which both defendants knowingly provided. First Complaint ¶ 22. Continuing, Klivansky and K. Burkey, along with other defendants, knowingly continued to conspire to have plaintiff maliciously prosecuted. First Complaint ¶ 28. Thereafter, K. Burkey and Klivansky agreed to give false testimony against plaintiff. First Complaint ¶ 32. Specific allegations of joint K. Burkey/Klivansky misconduct are no longer alleged after paragraph 32 of plaintiff’s first complaint. However, Klivansky was separately charged with accepting an undisclosed sum of cash in exchange for testimony favorable to the Commonwealth. First Complaint ¶¶ 35, 36. Finally, Klivansky committed perjury. First Complaint ¶ 38.

Plaintiff, as outlined supra, now alleges that separate charges were spawned by defendants Klivansky and K. Burkey and that the “Klivansky-inspired” conspiracy still may not have terminated in that plaintiff’s arrest record may not have been expunged. These current assertions are insufficient to defeat the application of res judicata because both suits arise out of the same core of “liability creating conduct”. A fair reading of the two complaints demonstrates that plaintiff’s “core complaint” is the same in both suits. True, the outer periphery of the second suit is not exactly co-extensive with the first. However, it complains of conduct which “was or could have been” litigated in the first suit.

Both suits charge a conspiracy by defendants to knowingly subject plaintiff to false and unwarranted criminal prosecutions for specified crimes. The core of operative facts alleged in both suits commenced in the summer of 1975, and continued thereafter.

Plaintiff is now attempting to engage in a post-hoc redrafting of his initial complaint by explaining that, contrary to a plain reading thereof, it only charged a “Burkey-inspired” conspiracy. As such, plaintiff seeks to impermissibly limit and narrow the scope of his first complaint. However, the requirement of notice pleading mandates a broad, generous reading of complaints. Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 78 S. Ct. 99, 2 L. Ed. 2d 80 (1957). This rule is *268 not altered when considering the breadth of a complaint for res judicata purposes. Blair v. City of Greenville, 649 F.2d 365, 368 (5th Cir. 1981).

Finally, plaintiff’s valiant attempts to distinguish the scope of the two suits are unsuccessful because plaintiff was aware of defendants’ “liability creating conduct” with regard to the “Klivansky-inspired” charges when he filed his initial suit. As such, he was required to allege its existence therein. Accord, Id. (res judicata bars suit based upon conduct which antedated final judgment in the first suit); Crowe v. Leeke, 550 F.2d 184, 187 (4th Cir. 1977) (res judicata precludes litigation of defendants’ conduct which occurred prior to entry of the first judgment).

An appropriate order will issue granting defendants’ motion to dismiss.

Information Related to Gary Ridgway’s murder of Becky Marrero.

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Rebecca R. ‘Becky’ Marrero was born in Seattle, Washington on August 4, 1962 and was killed by Gary Ridgway on December 3, 1982; she was his fourteenth known murder victim. Details surrounding Marrero’s childhood are largely unavailable, but it was known that she had a three-year-old daughter at the time she was killed. She was last seen by her mother on December 3, 1982 at their home: she left after receiving a phone call, and when she got off the phone, she told her mother to watch her daughter and left all of her belongings at home. A year and a half after her disappearance in July 1984 she was officially connected to the Green River killer. Becky’s skull was discovered in a ravine in Auburn, Washington, on December 20, 2010 close to where the remains of Marie Malvar were discovered in 2003. While her cause of death couldn’t be determined, her case was deemed a homicide.

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Gary Leon Ridgway, Case Files: Part Three (Wendy Lee Coffield).

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This installment of information is largely about Wendy Lee Coffield, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.

Photo one from ‘Roll A’ of Wendy Coffield’s pictures from the GRK investigation.
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Gary Leon Ridgway, Case Files: Part Two.

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Information courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.

Dr. Robert Keppel at a crime scene related to the Green River Killer investigation, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Another picture of Dr. Robert Keppel at a crime scene related to the Green River Killer investigation, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Dave Reichert in a picture related to the Green River Killer investigation, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Dave Reichert in a picture related to the Green River Killer investigation, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
An investigator at a crime scene related to the Green River Killer investigation, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some investigators at a crime scene related to the Green River Killer investigation, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force at a meeting regarding Gary Ridgway, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force at a meeting regarding Gary Ridgway, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
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Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Gary Ridgway looking out at some members of the Green River Killer task force from the inside of a sheriff’s van, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force helping out at a crime scene, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force (with Gary Ridgway standing in the next room), picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force watching a news report on the Green River Killer, picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
Some members of the Green River Killer task force posing at a crime scene (with Gary Ridgway in the back), picture courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
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01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 195A: Gregory Ridgway.
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01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 206A: Marcia Ridgway.
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01-298715, AAM0067. Tape 208A: Thomas Edward Ridgway.
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01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 253A: Mary Ridgway.mp3
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 210A: Judith Ridgway.
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 210B: Judith Ridgway.
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 211A: Judith Ridgway.
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 211B: Judith Ridgway.
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 256A: Claudia Baros.
01-298715, AAM0067, Tape 256B: Claudia Baros.
87-035433, WBB0810, Tape 613: Rebecca Garde Guay (1A).
87-035433, WBB0810, Tape 613: Rebecca Garde Guay (1B).
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Gary Leon Ridgway, Confirmed Victims: A List.

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Jane Doe B-10: an unknown white female between twelve and nineteen that was discovered in 1984 close to the body of Cheryl Wims; she most likely was killed in the summer of 1983 and it’s suspected she had brown hair, stood around 5’5″ tall, and weighed 120 pounds. She was most likely left-handed and at one point in her adolescence had an injury to the front, left side of her head.

Jane Doe B-17: this victim most likely died in 1983 and their victims bones were found twice: some were found in 1984 and others were found in 1986. She was most likely a white female, aged 14-19, around 5’4”- 5’8” and average weight, around 120-140 lbs. Ridgway said she died in Spring or Summer 1983. Isotope testing shows she is possibly from the Northern United states (Alaska, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota) or Canada.

Jane Doe B- 20: discovered in 2003 after Ridgway led investigators to her remains, however her skull was never recovered so no composite sketch could be created (her race could also never be determined); it is known that she died some time in between 1973-1993 (but it most likely occurred sometime in the late 1970’s) and was most likely around thirteen to twenty-four years old. Ridgway confessed that he killed her sometime in the summer of either ’82 or ’83 and she was white and around twenty-years-old and had with brown or blonde shoulder length hair; he claimed to have started his crime spree in ’82 but it could have been earlier and doesn’t remember killing anyone in the 1970’s, but admitted it was possible.

Gary Ridgway’s first confirmed victim, sixteen-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield. Wendy briefly visited with her mother Virginia on the afternoon of July 8, 1982, and during their time together she said that her foster mother had given her permission to leave and spend the night at her grandfather’s house; it was later determined to have been a lie and she was only supposed to go out ‘for a walk.’ Coffield was never seen alive again and her remains were discovered on the banks of the Green River eight days later on July 15, 1982, underneath the Meeker Street Bridge.
Seventeen-year-old Gisele Annette Lovvorn, who was a fun-loving Dead Head with an IQ of 145 (she had been a straight-A student before she dropped out). After traveling around the US with her boyfriend she eventually settled down in Washington at some point and became involved in sex work; while there she moved in with an older gentleman named John Tindal, who relied on her financially. Gisele was last seen around 1 PM on July 17,’1982 with plans of turning ‘three or four tricks,’ and even though Tindal was the one that reported her as missing in the initial stages of the investigation he was the King Country Sherrif’s Departments prime suspect. Her remains were discovered on September 25, 1982.
Kasee Ann Lee, who was born on February 26, 1966 in Spokane, WA. I wasn’t able to find anything about her childhood but it has been established by the time she was sixteen she had began engaging in sex work and married a man (that was believed to be her pimp) only a few months before her murder. It’s strongly felt that she had someone in her life that was abusing her, as she often returned home with cuts and bruises, but when asked she would never share who was responsible. Lee was last seen by her husband on August 28, 1982 after she ran to the store to buy some ingredients for dinner and was last seen near the Sea-Tac International Airport at around 11:30 PM; her husband reported her missing two days later. After his arrest Ridgway confessed that he strangled Lee shortly after her disappearance and dumped her body near either a drive-in theatre or behind a bowling alley, and even though Ridgway told investigators the location of Kasee’s remains, they failed to locate them, and because they have never been found he has never been charged with Lee’s murder.
Kelly Kay McGinnis, who was only eighteen when she was killed after checking into the ‘Three Bears Motel’ at South 216th Street and Pacific Highway South in Des Moines, WA; before she disappeared; she was employed as a prostitute and had been living on the streets of Seattle since she was fourteen, and at the time she went missing had a fourteen-month old daughter, that had been residing in a foster home. Immediately following her disappearance, it was presumed that Kelly was a victim of the Green River Killer, and sure enough Ridgway confessed to her murder in November of 2003 (in an attempt to avoid the death penalty). After he confessed to leaving her body near Lake Fenwick, investigators tried to locate her remains but were unsuccessful, and it was confirmed that she was last seen with him parked near a baseball field on Pacific Highway South. Gary Ridgway was never formally charged with McGinnis’ murder.
Patricia ‘Patty’ Anne Osborn, who was born in Seattle on February 29, 1964. At some point, Patty began using hard drugs and got involved in sex work, and even though she left home at seventeen she was still in contact with her mother on a regular basis. She was last seen in Seattle on October 20, 1983 after she left her motel room and started walking down Aurora Avenue to a nearby restaurant, where she had plans to meet a John for ‘a date,’ but she never arrived. The exact date is unknown, but Patty was added to the list of possible Green River Killer victims sometime before August 1984, and after Ridgway was arrested he told detectives that he believed he was responsible for her death but didn’t remember any additional details. Due to the fact that little evidence existed and her remains were never found, he was never charged with Osborn’s murder.
Mary-Jane Molina Malvar, who was born on April 1, 1965, in Manila in the Philippines. After her family relocated to the US, she somehow ended up in Washington state, where she became involved in sex work. She was last seen by her boyfriend along Pacific Highway South getting into a man’s truck, and after he became suspicious he got in his vehicle and attempted to follow it but was unsuccessful. Four days later, he contacted the King County Police and told them that he found the truck parked in front of a house, which happened to be owned by Gary Ridgway… Police brought him in for questioning, but he told them he knew nothing about Marie’s disappearance, and they were forced to release him due to lack of evidence. She was immediately suspected of being a victim of the Green River Killer, and her name was officially added to the list of suspected victims shortly after she vanished. After his confessed Ridgway led detectives to a ravine in Auburn, where a skull was found; dental records confirmed it was Marie’s.
April Buttram, who was born in California on September 1, 1965. Details about Aprils childhood are unknown, but during her teenage years she was described as a ‘good kid’ but was turning into a troubled teenager. She was last seen on August 18, 1983 in Seattle and she was reported missing by her mother on an unknown date; she was added to the list of suspected GRK victim’s in July 1984. When asked about her remains, Ridgway took detectives to a wooded area near Snoqualmie, where they discovered a set of remains that were later determined to belong to April. On their way, he mistakenly ID’ed them as belonging to Keli McGinness, and told investigators that he frequently confused Kelly and April with one other, as he felt they had ‘similar physiques.’
Patricia Ann Osborn, who was the oldest of ten children and was born in Havre, Montana on April 7, 1960; she was a member of the Chippewa-Cree Nation. Most of the details surrounding her childhood are not known, however her family eventually relocated to Seattle. The mother of three was a heavy drinker and a frequent drug user, and she was last seen between August 4 and 6, 1998; her body was discovered on the morning of August 6, 1998, near Des Moines Way South. Immediately after her death it was suspected she had suffered from an accidental overdose therefore it was not ruled a homicide. Patricia’s family was shocked when Ridgway confessed to her murder.
Debra Lorraine Estes, who was born in Washington on September 12, 1967. As an adolescent, Debra loved horses, baseball, and riding her bicycle, and in her later teen years she ran away from home and became a sex worker. Deb was known to be friends with another victim of the GRK named Becky Marrero, and she was last seen at a Motel in SeaTac on September 20, 1982. On May 30, 1988 her remains were discovered at an apartment building in Federal Way, WA by workers digging post holes. While her cause of death couldn’t be determined, it was deemed to be a homicide. Little is known about the immediate aftermath of Debra’s disappearance. When her body was found, detectives immediately added her name to the list of victims.
Rebecca R. ‘Becky’ Marrero, who was born in Seattle, Washington on August 4, 1962. She was killed by Gary Ridgway in Seattle, Washington on December 3, 1982 and was his fourteenth known murder victim. Details surrounding Marrero’s childhood are unavailable, but it was known that she had a three-year-old daughter at the time she was killed. She was last seen by her mother on December 3, 1982, at their home: she left after receiving a phone call, and when she got off the phone, she told her mother to watch her daughter and left all of her belongings at home. A year and a half after her disappearance in July 1984 she was officially connected to the Green River killer. Becky’s skull was discovered in a ravine in Auburn, Washington, on December 20, 2010 close to where the remains of Marie Malvar were discovered in 2003. While her cause of death couldn’t be determined, her case was deemed a homicide.
Colleen Renee Brockman, who was born on December 4, 1967. During her childhood, Colleen lived with her father and brother but ran away from home in her early teenage years. She became involved in sex work and worked the SeaTac strip, and was last seen in Seattle on December 24, 1982 leaving a downtown motel. Her remains were discovered on May 26, 1984 and she was identified a month later after her father recognized descriptions of her braces, which were still on her teeth after her skull was found; a cause of death couldn’t be determined but her case was immediately deemed a homicide.
Yvonne Shelly Antosh, who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 8, 1964. Most of the details about her childhood are unavailable, but she moved to Washington shortly before her murder and quickly became involved in sex work. Shelly was last seen in the SeaTac area on Mary 31, 1983, along Pacific Highway South and her remains were found in Auburn on October 15, 1983. In a spot that was very close to those of Mimi Pitsor, Lori Razpotnik, and Sandra Major. Yvonne’s cause of death couldn’t be determined, and because of how close her remains were to other victims, her murder was immediately suspected to be linked to the Green River Killings; she was officially added to the list of victims in November 1983.
Carol Ann Christensen, who was born on May 22, 1961, in Weippe, Idaho. At some point in her life, Carol Ann moved to Washington and at the time of her murder she had a five-year-old daughter and had been separated from her husband. She had been as a waitress at a local tavern and was last seen on May 3, 1983, in SeaTac leaving her POE after eating lunch with plans of returning later that evening to work her scheduled shift, but she never showed up. Her remains were found in Maple Valley by a family hunting for mushrooms: there had been a bag placed over her head and two clean fish had been placed on her body. Additionally, she had a bottle of wine in her hand and there was a raw sausage near her body. When investigators arrived, they determined she had been strangled and at one point had been completely undressed, splashed with water, then reclothed. The one shoe she had been found with had been put on the wrong foot, and her other one has never been recovered. She was also raped, as semen was found in her body; in 2001 it came back a match to Gary Ridgway.
Linda Rule, who was born in Seattle on March 20, 1966. Details regarding her childhood are mostly unknown, but she is known to have gotten into some minor legal trouble after her parent’s divorce when she was a teenager. After she dropped out of high school she began engaging in drug use and its possible she was a sex worker. The sixteen year old had plans of getting married to her boyfriend at the time of her murder and had been last seen on September 26, 1982 leaving their shared motel room walking to the Kmart on Aurora Avenue north, to buy some clothes, and when she never came home her boyfriend had merely assumed that she had been arrested, but he couldn’t find her incarcerated at any of the local jails.  The boyfriend (who is not thought to be Rule’s pimp) didn’t think she was working as it was rare to see girls working Aurora Avenue in the middle of the day and immediately filed a missing person’s report. Rule’s body was discovered on January 31, 1983 near a hospital in Seattle, and four days she was identified via dental records. Linda’s murder remained unsolved until Ridgway confessed to it in 2003.
Kimi ‘Melinda’ Kai Pitsor, whjo was born on October 21, 1966 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details about her childhood are unavailable, though she likely moved to Washington sometime before her murder. She loved ‘glitter, unicorns, and the color purple,’ and left home at sixteen to move in with her boyfriend/pimp in downtown Seattle. Her boyfriend last saw her on April 17, 1983 talking to a date in a blue pickup and when she never returned home that evening he called LE and gave them a description of the vehicle. Mimi’s remains were found in Auburn just outside Mountain View Cemetery on December 14, 1983.
Cheryl Lee Wims, who was born on May 23, 1964 in Washington. Most of the details about her youth are unknown, but as she grew older she gravitated towards drugs and at the time of her murder had been working at as busgirl in a Seattle restaurant. Wims was last seen on her eighteenth birthday on May 23, 1983, in Seattle and her body was recovered north of the SeaTac airport on March 22, 1984 during a search of the area after the remains of Wendy Stephens were found earlier in the same general area. Cheryl wasn’t connected to the Green River killings before her remains were found, but she was connected to the murders soon after her remains were recovered. Strangely enough, Chery’s sister, Deborah also disappeared on October 25, 1990 and she is also suspected of being a victim of the GRK. Her remains have never been recovered. It wouldn’t be until 2001 that her killer, Gary Ridgway, would be apprehended. Gary Ridgway was convicted of killing Cheryl however he denied murdering Deborah (although though LE strongly suspect he may be lying).
Cindy Ann Smith, who was born on November 3, 1966 in Colorado. Smith ran away from her home in Seattle, Washington to California, when she began working as a topless dancer at the tender age of thirteen and shortly after began engaging in sex work. Right before her murder, Cindy’s mother bought her a plane ticket home to Seattle after she called her and told her she wanted to come home. and she disappeared mere hours after arriving home and she was last seen hitchhiking on the Pacific Highway South. On June 27, 1987 three boys were in a ravine behind the Green River Community College when they came across her partially buried remains; shortly after Smith was added to the list of confirmed GRK victims.
Shawnda Leea Summers, who was born on June 28, 1965 in Akron, Ohio. Her family relocated to Bellevue, WA at some point in her childhood and she was known to have gotten involved in sex work in her teenage years. The seventeen-year-olds remains were discovered north of the SeaTac Airport on August 11, 1983, and she identified two months later in October 1983.
Fifteen year old Patricia Ann Barczak, who was arrested on August 8, 1982 for being a sex worker. Barczak was placed in the custody of the Department of Social and Health Services and was sent to live in a youth shelter, and during an outing with DSHS on August 12, 1982 she ran away from her group and was never seen or heard from again. She was added to the list of suspected victims of the Green River Killer in May 1993, due to the location of her disappearance and her being a sex worker. When Ridgway was asked about Patti, he said he couldn’t recall any details about her, however Green River investigator Tom Jensen believes he is responsible for her disappearance.
Shirley Marie Sherrill, who was born in Seattle on January 16, 1964. Details of her childhood are unavailable, but the eighteen year old is known to have become involved in sex work and she was last seen by a friend when they had lunch in Seattle’s International District sometime between October 20 and 22, 1982 in Seattle’s International District. Shirley was connected to the Green River killings in December 1983 and her skull was discovered in Tualatin, Oregon, on June 21, 1985; she was identified via dental X-rays three days later.
Denise Darcel Bush, a twenty-three-year-old Portland resident that had relocated to the SeaTac strip after she heard that money was better there. Most of the details surrounding her childhood are unavailable other than that she had epilepsy and had become a sex worker at some point. A month before her murder in September 1982, she was arrested and charged with stealing at least six wheelchairs from a hospital (along with two other women); it’s unknown what became of the charges. She was last seen on October 8, 1982 crossing a street in Seattle to buy cigarettes and was never reported missing; her friends had assumed she had simply returned home to Portland.  Her skull was discovered in Tualatin, Oregon, on June 12, 1985 (the body of Shirley Sherrill were later found in the same area), and on February 10, 1990 remains and teeth found in Tukwila were quickly tied to Denise. After Ridgway confessed to Denise’s murder in 2003, he told police he put Denise’s skull in Oregon to intentionally throw off the investigation.
Andrea M. Childers, who was born on March 29, 1964 and spent most of her childhood in California but moved to Seattle to live with her father and stepmother when she was sixteen. At some point in her life, she became involved in sex work and had been arrested for it around a year before she was last seen alive. She was very close with her elderly grandmother and had dreams of becoming a dance teacher; she was last seen at a bus stop in Seattle on April 14, 1983, in Seattle. On October 11, 1989 her remains were discovered near the SeaTac Airport by a Port of Seattle worker that had been cutting brush in the area. Her missing persons report had been purged from police files after someone contacted law enforcement and told them they saw Andrea crossing the Canadian border, which is likely not true; the only file related to her disappearance that hadn’t been purged was one in possession of the GRK Task Force.
Mary Bridget Meehan, who was born on May 16, 1964 in Washington. Mary was described as ‘very outgoing’ and was a talented artist and was a big lover of animals, however once she started middle school she began getting into trouble and started skipping class and was known to run away (although she would always return). Mary was also known to be a sex worker, however right before her murder she gotten pregnant by her boyfriend and started to turn her life around (she had also recently obtained her GED). Meehan was last seen in the SeaTac area on September 15, 1982 after she left the Western Six Motel to go for a walk; he remains were discovered in a shallow grave almost two months later by the Tyee Golf Course in the SeaTac area on November 13, 1983; she had been eight months pregnant at the time.
Kelly Ware, who was born on November 19, 1960 in Washington. Details about her childhood are unavailable, but she is known to have become involved in sex work. She was last heard from by her mother on July 18, 1983 after she called home from a payphone in the Central District of Seattle; her remains were discovered in SeaTac on October 29, 1983, just south of the airport during a search of the area after the remains of Constance Naon were found nearby two days before. Because Kelly was never reported as missing in 1983 she was never added to the list of suspected GRK victims, which meant that after her remains were found she remained unidentified; Ware was officially reported as missing in late 1984, and because she was a sex worker, police immediately suspected that she was a victim of the GRK, which lead to the identification of her remains via dental records later in the year.
Constance Naon, who was born on June 29, 1962 in Washington. Many details about her background are unavailable, but before her murder, she was semi-financially stable and had a job as a clerk in a retail store… but, the twenty-year-old had a nasty cocaine habit and had started to engage in sex work to help fund it. She was last seen leaving a friends house on June 8, 1983 and her car would later be found parked in SeaTac, near Pacific Highway South. Constance’s remains were discovered on October 27, 1983, just south of the airport; two days later the remains of Kelly Ware would be found in the same area (she remained unidentified until December 1984).
Sandra K. Gabbert (or ‘Sand-e’ as she was known by her family), who was born on March 7, 1966 in Seattle. Her parents divorced when she was young and in her teenage years, she was the star of her high school basketball team but dropped out at seventeen before graduating. She moved in with her boyfriend and became involved in sex work on the SeaTac strip in an attempt to help make ends meet (she was known as ‘Smurf’ on the street). Despite the lifestyle she led Sandra maintained a close relationship with her mother, who she told one time made more turning one trick than she did working an entire week at KFC, and she understood her daughter’s desperation but still begged her to ‘be careful.’ Sandra was last seen in SeaTac on April 17, 1983, along Pacific Highway South and her body was found in April of 1984 at in an isolated spot in the Star Lake Road area around Auburn.
Pammy Annette Avent, who was born on November 23, 1966 in Seattle. She was a sex worker and was known to travel between Portland and Seattle; she was last seen on October 26, 1983 leaving her home to go see a John and was reported missing by her mother on October 30, 1983. Pammy was added to the list of suspected victims of the Green River Killer in May 1984. Agfter his arrest when Ridgway was asked about where Avent’s remains may have been, he led detectives to Highway 410 (which was an old logging road) east of Enumclaw, where they discovered a skeleton that was identified as hers was found there; her family conducted a memorial service for their daughter on November 8, 2003.
Roberta ‘Bobby Jo’ Hayes, who was born on June 9, 1966 in Seattle. She ran away from home when she was twelve and during her teenage years was featured in the 1984 Oscar-nominated film ‘Streetwise,’ that documented the lives of kids living on the streets of Seattle. Bobby Jo was working as a waitress at the time of her murder and was last documented leaving a Portland, Oregon jail on February 7, 1987; its strongly suspected that she had plans of hitchhiking back to Seattle, but it’s unknown what happened to her after that. Haye’s stepmother reported her missing in 1988 after not hearing from her and her remains were discovered along Highway 410 on September 11, 1991; they remained unidentified for many years and it wasn’t until King County Detective Tom Jensen did a routine check of the area’s unsolved missing persons cases that he came across Bobby Jo’s missing persons report. After he added her file to the to the National Crime Information Center database the system immediately came up with a match to her unidentified remains. The ME did a comparison of dental records and a match was quickly confirmed but King County detectives held fast to their belief that the young victim wasn’t a Green River victim; Gary Ridgway confessed to her murder after his arrest in 2001.
Marta Reeves, who was born on April 11, 1953 in Hungary, and at some point before her murder she got married and had four children. She later got involved in the drug scene and developed a pretty serious cocaine habit and got involved in sex work to help pay for it. Marta was known to work in Seattle’s Central district, and was last seen either on March 5th or 6th, 1990. Her remains were discovered on September 20, 1990 by mushroom pickers along Highway 410, east of Enumclaw, WA. She was discovered wearing clothes, including pink size six running shoes, jeans with a 28-inch waist, a dark crew-neck sweater, and a single strand of white beads. Her husband tried to report as her missing to both Seattle and Edmonds police, but both agency’s believed that the case was the other one’s jurisdiction. Because of to this, Marta wasn’t reported missing for a prolonged period of time.
Martina T. Authorlee, who was born on March 21, 1965, in Fürth, Germany after her father was stationed there in the US Army; the Authorlee family lived there until 1968, when they relocated to Tacoma in Washington, where it is believed she lived in numerous foster homes for an unknown reason. Martina’s interests included roller skating, basketball, baseball, and swimming and she after she graduated from high school she joined the National Guard, however she was discharged for medical reasons. Authoree reportedly became involved in sex work at the age of fifteen and she was last seen in SeaTac on May 22, 1983, along Pacific Highway South. Martina was reported missing by her mother on January 30, 1984 and her remains were discovered off Highway 410, near Enumclaw on November 14, 1984.
Mary Sue Bello, who was born on December 22, 1957 in Seattle. Described by her family as intelligent but also very rebellious, Mary would help anyone that needed her, and was also an excellent cook. Despite all of her positive traits, Mary had a troubled life: at the age of thirteen she got involved in sex work, and began taking drugs and ran away to a different state in an attempt to meet her dad, who had one time tried to rape her. Mary was last seen in downtown Seattle on October 11, 1983 leaving her residence to engage in sex work. Mary’s mother reported her missing on November 17, 1983 and despite some confusion that she had been found safe and well in Odessa, her remains were recovered on October 12, 1984 and were identified via dental records.
Debbie May Abernathy, who was born in Dallas, Texas on May 25, 1957. Most of the details about her childhood are unknown but she moved from Texas to Seattle only weeks before her murder with her boyfriend and son with hopes of a fresh start. After relocating, she turned to sex work and was last seen in Seattle on September 5, 1983 near the Rainier Avenue area. Debbie’s remains were discovered just east of Enumclaw on March 31, 1984.
Kimberly Nelson (who also went by the alias, Tina Tomson), who was born on January 26, 1963 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At some point during her adolescence, she moved to Seattle and along with the help of a pimp, got involved in sex work. She was last seen near a motel in SeaTac on November 1, 1983 and her remains were discovered by the GRK Task Force near North Bend on June 14, 1986. The alias that Nelson used led detectives to the identification of a previous victim, Tina Thompson, whose remains had been recovered in April 1984.
Lisa L. Yates, who was born somewhere in Washington state on January 22, 1964. Most of the details surrounding her childhood are not known, however she was described by her family as ‘being gifted, loving and funny.’  At some point in her life, Yates became involved in sex work and she was last seen on December 23, 1983 in Seattle heading towards Rainier Avenue; her remains were discovered near North Bend on March 13, 1984. Lisa was not reported missing until her sister (who had been living in Hawaii) noticed reports of a woman that matched her description that had been found murdered near Lake Kapowsin on September 13, 1984. Fearing the remains belonged to Lisa, she got a friend to give investigators her sisters information. She was ruled out as being the then-unidentified body, however forensic experts tested her against the unidentified victims of the GRK and they came up with a match. The body found near Lake Kapowsin was later identified as twenty-one-year-old Lucille Kay Jones, who was last seen on August 11, 1984 and isn’t believed to be a victim of Gary Ridgway.
Delise ‘Missy’ Louise Plager, who was born on May 16, 1961 and had been previously known as Jane Doe B-8 or Bones 8. After barely making it through her birth, Delise (who went by Missy) spent her early childhood being raised in a poor environment, and at the age of five her and her twin brother were removed from the home and adopted into separate families; to make matters worse, her brother’s new family forbade Missy from contacting him. At some time in her adolescence, Plager had been diagnosed with ADHD and by the time she vanished at the age of twenty-two she had given birth to three children. In 1977 when she was sixteen, had gotten into a car accident and suffered from a skull fracture as well as a broken jaw and hip. In 1982 a woman in Seattle’s Capitol Hill area approached Missy and said to her, ‘you know, you look enough like my boyfriend to be his twin,’ and as it turned out, she was; sadly, the reunion was anticlimactic and didn’t work out well for her. Later in the year she had tried to reconnect with her biological mother Patricia as well, but that went even worse: over the years Patricia’s alcoholism had gotten bad, and she was less than sympathetic to the hard life her daughter had, and at one point during their encounter (after having one too many cocktails) said something along the lines of: ‘you’ve got so many problems, maybe it would have been better if they hadn’t resuscitated you when you were born.’ After this cannon event Missy developed a drug problem and began to rely solely on sex work to support herself and had even tried to commit suicide at some point. She had been last seen at a bus stop in the Beacon Hill area of the Seattle suburbs on October 30, 1983, and had been on her way to deliver a Halloween costume to a friend’s child shortly before she was killed. Her remains were discovered near North Bend on February 14, 1984 but remained unidentified until April 1985 when they a match was made via dental records and X-rays.
Maureen Sue Feeney, who was born on October 5, 1963 in Seattle, Washington. During her teenage years, Feeney suffered from low self-esteem and didn’t date much; she was also reportedly into self-harm and even hinted at suicide to one of her friends. In the months leading up to her murder, Feeney got a job as an assistant at a local daycare, and it was around the same time that her personality changed: she started drinking heavily and often went out to clubs. She also may have been dating a man that had ties to sex work (even though her family claimed she wasn’t) and may have had plans of quitting her job, as she was earning money through an unknown means. Maureen was last seen leaving her Seattle apartment on September 28, 1983 and she was was reported missing by her mother two days later; her remains were found near the intersection near Issaquah on May 2, 1986.
Tina Marie Thompson, who was born in Oregon on October 26, 1960. Also known as Jane Doe B-14 or Bones 14 while unidentified, most of the details about her background are unknown, but at the time of her murder she was living in Portland, Oregon and was employed as a waitress (even though she was known to have been involved with in sex work). Tina was last seen in Seattle on July 25, 1983 after she was released from the King County Jail, the reasons that she was away from home remain unknown. Thompson’s remains were discovered near Highway 18 in Maple Valley and were supposedly found by a self-described psychic named Barbara Kubik-Patten that had been working the case’ independently’ (whatever that means).  Because Tina wasn’t reported as missing her remains weren’t immediately identified, however they were linked to the Green River killings soon after their discovery. Her remains were identified in 1986 after King County investigators were looking into the aliases of Kimberly Nelson, and one of them happened to be ‘Tina Lee Tomson.’ When detectives realized that Tina shared many of Jane Doe B-14’s characteristics, they did a comparison of her dental records and in July 1986 a positive match was made.
Carrie Ann Rois, who was born on February 15, 1968 in California but moved to Washington at some point in her adolescence. At some point before her murder fifteen-year-old Carrie began telling people that she was being abused at home, and for unknown reasons, she was placed in various group homes (although it was known that she was an established run away). She got along well with her peers in the state facilities and dreamed of one day becoming a model. She was known to have gotten involved in sex work only weeks before she disappeared and was last seen between May 31 and June 15, 1983; Carrie’s remains were discovered on March 10, 1985 in Auburn near Star Lake Road. She was connected to the GRK case on March 6, 1984, along with Carol Christensen.
Delores Laverne Williams, who was born on June 29, 1965. Very little is known about her childhood, however she reportedly had many previous arrests on her record for being a sex worker. Ms. Williams was last seen walking along Pacific Highway South in the SeaTac area sometime between March 8 and 17, 1983. Her remains were discovered in Auburn close to Star Lake Road on March 31, 1984 at around the same time as three other sets of remains, those belonging to Alma Smith, Sandra Gabbert and Terri Milligan. It’s unlikely Delores’ case was immediately connected to the GRK in the days right after her disappearance, but all the remains found were connected shortly after. She remained unidentified until December 1984 when the GR Task Force came into possession of her missing persons report and dental records.
Alma Ann Smith, who was born on August 1, 1964, in Walla Walla. When asked what she was like, Alma’s best friend said she was ‘extremely generous,’ but when she was a teenager, she began running away from home, often hitchhiking her way to Seattle. At some point in her teenage years, she became involved in sex work and was last seen walking along the Pacific Highway South on March 3, 1983 in SeaTac. Alma’s remains were discovered in Auburn near Star Lake Road, on April 2, 1984 at around the same time as Delores Williams, Sandra Gabbert and Terri Milligan. In 2001 Gary Ridgway confessed to luring Alma to his home and strangling her to death.
Opal Charmaine Mills, who was born on April 12, 1966 in Washington. Her childhood nickname was ‘Little Opal,’ and she grew up with an abusive father (even though she was very close to her older brother, who said she ‘struggled to fit in in a racially divided world’); as she was moving through her teenage years, Opal frequently hitchhiked to get around, and was described as being ‘boy crazy’ and she dropped out of formal schooling sometime in her teenage years (but she did begin taking classes through a continuation school shortly before she was killed). It’s unknown whether Mills was a sex worker at the time of her murder and she was last heard from by her brother on August 12, 1982 when she reached out and asked him for a ride; she also told him in that same conversation that she was planning on doing a painting job near Angel Lake Park with her friend, Cynthia ‘Cookie’ Hinds. Opal Mills was identified as being one of three bodies pulled from the Green River on August 15, 1982, along with Marcia Chapman and Cynthia Hinds, who was coincidentally the same the friend Opal had plans meeting with when she disappeared; it’s unknown if the two friends ever crossed paths that fateful day and Cynthia was last heard from the day before Mills was last seen alive.
Terry Renee Milligan, who was born in Seattle on January 26, 1966. When Terri was a child, she was described as being brilliant and had dreams of attending Yale University; she was also very active in her local church. After Milligan got pregnant in middle school she was forced to drop out, and at the time she was killed lived with her boyfriend in a motel; it’s unknown when, but the sixteen-year-old got involved in sex work at some point and was last seen on August 29, 1982 leaving her motel room. Her remains were discovered in Auburn on April 1, 1984 around the same time as three other victims (Delores Williams, Sandra Gabbert and Alma Smith).
Cynthia Jean Hinds, who was born on February 23, 1965 in Seattle. Seventeen-year-old Cynthia frequently associated with the wrong people and had a long history of running away from home, however in the months leading up to her murder it was said that she was trying to turn her life around and she had a job as a cook at a barbecue restaurant in the Southern part of Seattle. Hinds was last seen on August 11, 1982 after she left her job and she was identified as being one of three bodies that had been pulled out of the Green River on August 15, 1982, (along with Marcia Chapman and Opal Mills, whom Cynthia was known to be friends with). All three women were either nude or partially clothed and had also been raped, as semen was found in their bodies. In 2001, it was determined that the semen collected from the three women matched that of Gary Ridgway.
Gail Matthews, who was born on February 5, 1959 in Seattle and was known as Jane Doe B-2 or Bones 2 before she was unidentified. Most of the details surrounding her childhood are unknown but she had gotten divorced shortly before she was murdered. Matthews was last seen getting into a truck on Pacific Highway South in the SeaTac on April 10, 1983 and her remains were discovered in Auburn near Star Lake Road on September 19, 1983; Gail’s family reported her missing in April 1984. Around 1985, one of her cousins was reading a newspaper article about the GRK case that gave detailed descriptions of the killer’s unidentified victims, including Gail. After they read that one of the victims had a healed pelvis/shoulder from an injury that were consistent with the injuries Gail sustained from a boating accident in 1980; in February 1985 after the cousin submitted a tip to King County LE, Matthews was identified after some treatment records from the accident were compared to her remains.
Tracy Ann Winston, who was born on September 29, 1963 and was also known as Jane Doe B-18 or Bones 18 while unidentified. In school, Winston played basketball and was on the boys little league team (at a time where few girls were allowed to join); by the time she got to her teenage years, Tracy began getting into trouble and according to her brother had also associating a man who was described as a ‘con man.’ She also became involved in sex work (which she was arrested for) and after spending a day in jail, she called her parents, saying the experience had affected her and she was going to turn her life around and earn her GED. Tracy was last seen near the Northgate Mall in Seattle on September 12, 1983; her partial remains were discovered on March 27, 1986 in Kent close to the Green River and on November 20, 2005, a skull was found by a hiker near Issaquah that was later identified as belonging to her.
Marcia Chapman, who was born on July 9, 1951 somewhere in Arizona. At some point in her life, she relocated to Washington and at the time of her murder she was a single mother with three children; a detective that was familiar with Marcia described her as ‘a nice person with a kind heart.’ Because Chapman was unable to provide for her little ones with a traditional job, she turned to being a sex worker; she had once been approached by a man that offered to be her pimp for protection, but she denied his thoughtful offer as she wanted to bring home the most money possible for her children. Marcia was last seen leaving her apartment on August 1, 1982 which was very near to Pacific Highway South and was identified as being one of three victims pulled from the Green River on August 15, 1982 (the other victims being Cynthia Hinds and Opal Mills); all three women were either nude or partially clothed and had been raped, as semen was found inside of their bodies. In 2001, after he confessed the semen collected from the bodies of Chapman, Mills, and Hinds all matched that of Gary Ridgway.
Debra Lynn Bonner, who was born on October 31, 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. One of three brothers and sisters, Debra dropped out of high school shortly before she was supposed to graduate and had become a sex worker to help make ends meet. At the time of her murder, Bonner was trying hard to turn her life around: she had been paying fines related to prior arrests, frequently checked in with her parents, was working on getting her GED, and had dreams of one day joining the US Navy; sadly only days before she disappeared she told a friend she was trying to escape an abusive boyfriend and had been last seen on July 25, 1982, leaving a motel on Pacific Highway South. Debra’s nude body was discovered floating in the Green River by an employee at the Kent slaughterhouse on August 12, 1982; she had been strangled to death. She was the second GRK victim to be discovered after Wendy Coffield.
Wendy Stephens, who was born sometime in 1968; she was known as Jane Doe B-10 or Bones 10 while she remained unidentified. She initially disappeared from Colorado on February 6, 1983 and she was reported missing by her family shortly after; sand its strongly believed that she was killed shortly after arriving in Washington. The Jane Doe’s skeletal remains were found on March 21, 1984. Medical experts determined that she had died a year or more before the discovery, sometime in the early 1980s. Wendy’s remains were discovered close to the remains of another victim, Cheryl Wims (who was discovered a day later) on the north side of the SeaTac airport on March 21, 1984; her cause of death was determined to be from strangulation. Both Wendy and Cheryl were linked to the Green River killings very soon after they were found. In 2001, Gary Ridgway confessed murdering Wendy Stephens. In 2020, the DNA Doe Project announced they were using genetic genealogy to identify Stephens remains, and in January 2021 they announced that they had identified Wendy, and her case was finally solved. Her remains were cremated and scattered close to her mother’s home in Colorado.
Lori Ann Ratzpotnik, who was born on November 13, 1967 and was formerly known as Jane Doe B-17 or Bones 17. Growing up, Lori was a straight-A student and her interests included horses, sports, cooking, and dogs. Described by her mother as a ‘firecracker’ and ‘just pure joy,’ as Lori grew older, she began to pick up some bad habits: skipping school, shoplifting, and running away from home. Lori ran away from her home in Lewis County sometime in 1982, after a particularly bad argument with her mother about getting a horse. During Thanksgiving in either 1982 or 1983, Lori called her mother one last time, saying she was happy living in Seattle and promised that she’d send presents home to them on Christmas… but she never did. On February 18, 1984, Lori’s partial remains were found in Federal Way, and not even two years later on January 2, 1986, more partial remains belonging to Lori were found in Auburn as it was determined they were determined to have come from the same person as the remains found in 1984.  After Lori stopped contacting her mother, she hired a private investigator to try and find her, nothing ever panned out. After he got caught Ridgway said that confessed to killing her in the Spring or Summer of 1983. Due to this, it’s likely Lori last contacted her family on Thanksgiving 1982, not ’83.  In December 2023, with assistance from Parabon Nanolabs, Jane Doe B-17 was identified as Lori. Isotope testing before her identification suggested she wasn’t native to the area, but Lori was actually from the area.
Tammie Liles, who was also known as Jane Doe B-20 before her 2024 identification was born on May 9, 1967. In May 1983 sixteen-year-old Tammie ran away from her home in
Tualatin, Oregon and she was last seen alive somewhere in Seattle on June 9, 1983. In the days that followed her disappearance, Tammie wasn’t immediately reported missing, most likely because she had ran away in the past, and it wasn’t believed that she had been met with foul play. Liles skull and partial remains were discovered near a golf course in Tualatin, Oregon on April 23, 1985 during a subsequent search of the area after the remains of Angela Girdner were recovered nearby the day before. Tammie remained unidentified until early 1988, when her parents finally reported their daughter as missing; and upon obtaining her dental records, detectives were able to make an identification of her remains later that March. After Ridgway was captured in 2003, he unknowingly led King County Detectives to Tammie’s remains as the scene that he took them to contained somewhere between twenty-five to thirty bones (some of which belonged to her).  Sadly, Angela Girdner remained unidentified until 2009, when a positive match was made using dental records. When Ridgway was asked about Tammie and Angela’s he denied killing them both, and he was convicted of Tammie’s murder but not of Angela’s. After the rest of Lile’s remains were discovered in 2003, they were sent to Othram Labs in January 2024 and came back a match; she was Ridgway’s last victim to be unidentified after Lori Razpotnik in December 2023.

Wendy Lee Coffield.*

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Background: Wendy Lee Coffield was born on April 17, 1966 to Herbert and Virginia (nee Eaton) Coffield in Renton, WA. Herbert ‘Bert’ Ralph Coffield was born on April 1, 1937 in Bellingham, WA and Virginia Lee Eaton was born on September 6, 1945 in Kellogg, Idaho (although one source said the event took place in Portland, OR). Upon returning home from the Korean War (he was drafted in Fairbanks, Alaska on April 5, 1955) Bert married Virginia Eaton on February 26, 1965 and the couple had two children together: Wendy and her older sister Patricia ‘Patsy’ Lee, who was born on February 27, 1965. According to Patsy, Wendy had been causing difficulties ‘starting from the minute she was born,’ and she ‘had a way of running into trouble,’ but Virginia was a bit less critical, and said where she her younger daughter was definitely a ‘spitfire’ she ‘wasn’t a troublemaker,’ and was more ‘mischievous. I don’t think she was what you’d call real trouble.’

When Wendy was thirteen her parents divorced on October 17, 1979, and after the split she stayed with her mother, who said that her daughter was: ‘wild in a lot of ways, but I don’t think it was a harmful kind of wild. The only one it hurt was herself.’ Mrs. Coffield said her behavioral problems intensified after the two had left the family farm in Black Diamond and moved about a half-hour away into low-income housing in Kent, WA.

Adolescence: Virginia said that when Wendy was still in her care she would frequently disappear for days at a time, and when she eventually returned would never tell her where she had been; she clarified that she didn’t consider her to be a runaway because she ‘always came back.’ Despite officially being listed as a prostitute, Mrs. Coffield said she strongly felt that her daughter was more likely to have tried to con money from the men, and wouldn’t have had sex with them.

Wendy’s mother said her daughter had been ‘a good little girl’ when they were living in the country, but her ‘trouble’ began when they moved to Kent then Auburn (which are both relatively small when compared to nearby Seattle or Tacoma). The Coffield’s never had much money and Virginia seemed to especially struggle after her divorce; mother and daughter quickly jumped around from one low-rent residence to another, and there was even a brief period in the warmer spring and summer months when they were forced to live in a tent, eating blackberries from nearby bushes that they also sold to buy food.

One night, when Wendy was fourteen or fifteen Virginia recalled that she had come home disheveled and upset: ‘she said some guy raped her while she was hitchhiking. That’s the way she got around. Hitchhiking. I told her that’s what happens. After that, she changed.’ Mrs. Coffield acknowledged that her daughter had ‘one brush with hard drugs,’ and had been involved in other minor infractions like ‘drinking in school and trying to sell a health food supplement as a drug.’ At the time Wendy disappeared her mother had only been thirty-six and had barely made it through her own painful childhood: her parents had been far more worried about getting drunk and her needs sadly fell to the wayside, as Vigrinia had come from ‘a big family of drinkers.’

At sixteen Virginia had become pregnant and had given that baby up for adoption, and from there, she spent two years at Maple Lane, a juvenile corrections facility for young ladies located in Grand Mound,WA: ‘I felt like I was a misfit; nobody understood me. She (Wendy) was seeking help just like I did, but they put her out (of juvenile detention) when they should have given her supervision. She just needed a couple of years off the street to grow up.’ Mrs. Coffield said her problems with drinking, coping with divorce, and a boyfriend much like her junior that Wendy was also interested in romantically only contributed to her problems.

1982: By the middle of 1982, Virginia and Wendy were living in yet another run-down apartment in downtown Puyallup, and after she stopped going to junior high she enrolled in Kent Continuation School in a half-assed attempt to keep up with her education (she reportedly preferred to spend her time partying and drinking). She was known to use drugs on a frequent basis and occasionally engaged in sex work, and by sixteen she had already been arrested multiple times. At the time of her murder in July 1982 she was romantically involved with a twenty-one-year-old, and instead of making her daughter end it Virginia began to date him, and even moved him into their apartment; he turned out to be physically abusive to both of them, and mother and daughter would often fight over him. Shortly before Wendy was murdered her mother had finally admitted to herself that she had lost control of her, and that she ‘just started having trouble’ and had been well-known to LE in both King and Pierce Counties: ‘the last thing she did was she took $140 in food stamps from one of our neighbors.’

Mrs. Coffield said that in the earlier part of 1982 Wendy had been sent to Reman Hall in University Place after she stole lunch tickets from Sumner Junior High School, and had returned home that May. Upon their reunion Virginia said her daughter apologized for what she did and told her that she loved her, but her good behavior didn’t last long and the authorities had to be called after she stole food stamps from a neighbor and used them to fill her mother’s cupboards (which she discovered one night after returning home from bingo). After the incident the two ‘decided together’ that the best place for Wendy was in an ‘alternative placement,’ and after they signed the papers they cried together; Virginia also said that at one point her daughter told her that: ‘she hated me and never wanted to see me again. But I knew inside she didn’t mean it. She was hurt. She was trying to help me, she thought.’

July 8, 1982: There seems to be some uncertainty when it comes to the final hours of Wendy Lee Coffield’s life: according to her Virginia, she was allowed to leave the foster home that she had been living in at the time, but there was a court-imposed curfew. She reportedly visited with her for the last time on July 8, 1982, and from there one source claimed that she told her mother of plans of spending the night at her grandfather’s house later that same day, and that her foster mother had given her permission, but it was later discovered she was only supposed to ‘go for a walk.’ It was the last time she was seen alive.

In the months that followed her daughter’s murder Virginia said she wished she had spent more time getting to know her and that she had developed a better understanding of her; she said that where Wendy wasn’t an ‘angel by any means’ she was still lonely without her: ‘I just wish that it was over, that it was solved and he (Wendy’s killer) was locked up somewhere. I just wish she was here and we didn’t have to go through this.’

According to a psychologist’s report that was conducted by the Seattle Youth Department after one of her arrests, Wendy generally: ‘did not look at me and was consistently sullen throughout the examination. At times she expressed herself angrily. She generally appeared reluctant to extend herself mentally and tended to give up over-easily. She evidenced a general dysmorphia and pessimism about herself and her situation. She was an angry, resistant, immature young woman who seems deeply unhappy with herself and with her external world. All in all, I believe Wendy is certainly not capable of managing her own life constructively and in socially appropriate directions.’

The Discovery: Seven days after Coffield was last seen alive on July 15th, 1982, Gallan Hirschi and his friend Robert were riding their bikes in Kent when they noticed remains of a woman snagged on pilings against an old river post underneath the southern side of the Peck Bridge located on Meeker Street in Kent, WA. In the summer months of 1982, the water in the Green River wasn’t very deep, and as a result she would have been in plain sight of anyone that crossed the bridge. Close to where Wendy’s body was found, there was a restaurant called ‘The Ebb Tide,’ and only a block away was a topless bar, a meat-packing plant, a two-story motel, as well as a handful of fast-food eateries.

Because of the low water level in the Green River in the summer of 1982, much of its rocky shoreline and reedy grasses was exposed, so it wouldn’t have been very difficult for someone to carry Wendy from their car down to the river (although it obvious would have to been in the cloak of darkness at night). At first glance, the two fifteen-year-olds thought the object in the water looked like a large bag or possibly even a mannequin, but after they got off their bikes and went closer to get a better look they realized they were looking at human hair and a jacket. According to Hirschi, ‘the thing that caught my eye was tennis shoes. That doesn’t go away.’ The incident was followed by years of nightmares and an intense fear of walking close to water, and to this day he doesn’t like the sight of hair under water.

King County Medical Examiner Dr. Don Reay noted that the young victim had five tattoos: a vine around a heart on her left arm, two tiny butterflies above her breasts, a cross with a vine around it on her shoulder, a Harley Davidson motorcycle insignia on her back, and the unfinished outline of a unicorn on her lower abdomen. In the days that immediately followed the discovery, the King County ME was able to determine that she hadn’t drowned and had already been dead when she was left in the Green River. After a description of the young woman’s body art was published in the local Seattle newspapers, a tattoo artist recognized his work and came forward and identified the victim as Wendy. According to reports, he said, ‘I think she lives in Puyallup with her mother. She’s only sixteen.’

Detectives eventually located Virginia, and although she appeared to be in shock, she murmured to herself, ‘I kind of expected it.’ She then explained that she wondered if Wendy had been working as a prostitute and that she may have been attacked and killed by a ‘John.’ I know that was the kind of life she chose for herself. We taught her the best we could.’

The medical examiner’s office determined that Wendy had been strangled to death with her own pants in a different location then had been brought to Peck Bridge to be discarded, where she had remained for several days before she had been found; according to Ann Rule’s book, ‘Green River, Running Red,’ Coffield had been ‘partially naked’ when she had been recovered and had been ‘violently choked with her own panties.’ Because she was reported missing on July 8th, 1982, it is possible that she had been dead for up to a week and by the time she had been recovered her remains were badly decomposed because of the summer temperatures.

Virginia Coffield says she remembered her younger daughter as a ‘cute, little blue-eyed blonde, full of life,’ … ‘It’s sick. When you see your baby there all discolored and not all there.’ In an interview with The News Tribune reporter Teresa Cronin, Virginia Coffield said that she wished that she didn’t turn Wendy over to authorities the second time that she got in trouble, and had she known what was going to happen she would have kept her at home and disciplined her there.

Lawsuit: In February of 1983 Herbert and Virginia Coffield filed a lawsuit in Pierce County Superior Court alleging that the state of Washington along with the supervisors at the foster home that their daughter was residing at were negligent in her care and supervision. The family’s attorney Roger Wilson stated that Wendy should have been in a ‘more secure’ facility and that the state did not properly inform the home of her history, for example her previous threats to run away from Remann Hall; both the state and the foster parents denied responsibility for the child’s murder.

The suit was dismissed in April 1986 after a judge ruled in favor of ‘Jeannie Powers and her husband’ (who were the operators of the foster home) because ‘state juvenile law prevented them from holding the girl against her will’ and ‘the state and foster home had no duty to police the minor under their jurisdiction.’

Gary Leon Ridgway: When King County LE pulled the body of Wendy Lee Coffield out of the Green River,they had no idea it was the beginning of a nightmare that would go on for well over ten years, and before 1982 was over, a truck painter and husband/father of one named Gary Leon Ridgway would go on to murder fifteen women. Only nine days after Wendy Coffield was last seen alive, seventeen-year-old Gisele Ann Lovvorn disappeared on July 17, 1982; her remains were uncovered a little over two months later on September 25, 1982. The first time that Ridgway came up on police radar was on April 30, 1983 after his victim Marie Malvar disappeared: her boyfriend followed a pick-up truck that was connected to her disappearance that was later proven to belong to him.

Gary Leon Ridgway was eventually charged with killing Wendy Lee Coffield in April 2003, and it was eventually determined that he was responsible for the murders of at least forty-nine women across Seattle between 1982 and 1984. In March 2003 a private laboratory called ‘Microtrace’ discovered tiny spheres of spray paint on the clothes of Wendy Coffield and Debra Estes, which was structurally identical to the highly unique DuPont Imron paint that was used at the Kenworth Truck Plant outside of Seattle where Ridgway worked as a truck painter.

Conclusion: Herbert Coffield died at the age of sixty-eight on October 10, 2005 in Bellingham, WA. According to his obituary, over the course of his life Bert had worked many jobs across multiple states, including Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, and at one point even owned his own business called ‘Bert’s Janitorial Services’ in Fairbanks. In addition to blue collar work, he also owned a company called ‘The Tohunga Co.’ in Kent, which made contemporary and primitive art pieces.

In his younger years Bert collected firearms and owned multiple motorcycles, and in 1954 he rode his Harley from Fairbanks to Bellingham using the Alcan Highway (which is unofficially referred to as ‘The Alaskan Highway’) when it was still very new and primitive. A nature lover and artist, Mr. Coffield was always doing and creating something, whether it was carving wood, oil painting, or drawing; he also loved to read and was always in the middle of a book in an attempt to ‘discover the answers to life’s deeper mysteries.’ He had a ‘consummately generous spirit’ and was always ‘giving things away’ in an attempt to share the recent things that he had recently learned and picked up. He didn’t believe in death at the end, but ‘as a transfer point to the next level of consciousness.’

In her final few years on this earth Virginia lived with Patsy and died after what seems like a life full of struggles and mental illness on June 19, 2018 at the age of seventy-three. I was easily able to find Patsy’s Facebook page, and in her (public) posts she made no secret that her mother had suffered from self-harm tendencies and often resorted to verbal threats and physical abuse when she didn’t get her way. 

Wendy’s sister Patsy Lee was only fifty-eight when she passed away in her sleep in her home in Enumclaw on January 28, 2024. In her adult life, she worked at Circle K and Seven Eleven for several years before she later found employment at the Muckleshoot Casino Resort in Auburn, retiring around 2022. According to her obituary, Patsy adored her late parents and sister and missed them all greatly, and she enjoyed sharing her memories about them.

* I do feel that it is important to note that Wendy Lee Coffield is not technically Gary Ridgway’s first victim: at the age of sixteen he stabbed a six-year-old boy, critically injuring him; LE ignored the child when he blamed him for the attack and he went unpunished. In 1980, Ridgway was arrested for allegedly choking a prostitute, but no charges were filed after he claimed that the woman had bit him. Two years later he was arrested for solicitation, and it’s strongly speculated that he began murdering women shortly after.

Wendy (front) and her big sister, Patsy. Photo courtesy of Donald Coffield.
A picture of Wendy and her older sister, Patsy. Photo courtesy of FindAGrave user, ‘Jackie Reese; uploaded on December 18, 2024.
Wendy Lee Coffield. Photo courtesy of FindAGrave user, ‘Jackie Reese; uploaded on December 18, 2024.
Wendy Lee Coffield. Photo courtesy of FindAGrave user, ‘Jackie Reese; uploaded on December 18, 2024.
Wendy Lee Coffield. Photo courtesy of FindAGrave user, ‘Jackie Reese; uploaded on December 18, 2024.
A picture of Wendy I obtained from Patsy Coffield.
A picture of Wendy I grabbed from a newspaper article.
Wendy Lee Coffield.
Wendy Coffield’s body being pulled out of the Green River on July 15, 1982. Photo by Duane Hamamura.
A picture of Wendy’s family published in The News Tribune on July 1, 1984.
A picture of Virginia holding a picture of her daughter.
A screenshot of the Peck Bridge from an original video from the investigation of the murder of Wendy Lee Coffield, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
A screenshot of a diver searching for evidence from an original video from the investigation of the murder of Wendy Lee Coffield, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
A screenshot of an officer from an original video from the investigation of the murder of Wendy Lee Coffield, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
A screenshot of some law enforcement officers from an original video from the investigation of the murder of Wendy Lee Coffield, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.
The two boys that found Wendy’s remains, Gallan Hirschi and his friend Robert. Photo courtesy of OddStops.
An excellent ‘bird’s eye’ aerial image of the bridge, which is also known as Peck Bridge. Photo courtesy of OddStops.
A picture I took of the bridge near West Meeker Street in Kent, Washington where Wendy’s remains were discovered, photo taken in May 2025.
A picture I took of the bridge near West Meeker Street in Kent, Washington where Wendy’s remains were discovered, photo taken in May 2025.
The weather the week that Wendy was lying in the Green River in Kent, WA.
A picture of one of the rooms at Remann Hall in Tacoma, published in The News Tribune on September 21, 1986.
Some of the potential victims that Gary Ridgway may be responsible for that were killed before Wendy in 1981/early 1982.
Some notes in the GRK summary of evidence file that mentions Wendy.
Some notes in the GRK summary of evidence file that mentions Wendy.
Some notes in the GRK discovery file that mention Wendy.
An article about the murder of Wendy Coffield published in The News Tribune on July 20, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The News Tribune on August 16, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily News on August 16, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Ellensburg Daily Record on August 16, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Register-Guard on August 17, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Register-Guard on August 18, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Olympian on August 19, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Oregonian on August 19, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The News Tribune on August 19, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily News on August 19, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on August 19, 1982.
The first part of an article about the Green River Killer that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on August 20, 1982.
The second part of an article about the Green River Killer that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on August 20, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Kitsap Sun on August 21, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Spokesman-Review on August 21, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The News Tribune on August 22, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on August 23, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Tri-City Herald on September 21, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on September 27, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Spokesman-Review on September 28, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Ellensburg Daily Record on September 29, 1082.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily News on October 5, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Kitsap Sun on November 23, 1982.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Ellensburg Daily Record on January 10, 1983.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The News Tribune on February 11, 1983.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Ellensburg Daily Record on July 15, 1983.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Tri-City Herald on November 24, 1983.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Ellensburg Daily Record on January 16, 1984.
An article about Ted Bundy that happened to be below another piece about the Green River Killer published in The Mount Airy News on April 6, 1984.
An article about Ted Bundy that happened to be below another piece about the Green River Killer published in The Daily News on April 8, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily News on April 8, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Olympian on June 17, 1984.
An article about the Coffield family discussing the murder of Wendy published in The News Tribune on July 1, 1984.
An article about the Coffield family discussing the murder of Wendy published in The Spokesman-Review on July 3, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Juneau Empire on July 12, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Kitsap Sun on August 25, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Tri-City Herald on July 4, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The East Oregonian on July 14, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Juneau Empire on August 27, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on July 3, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Daily Herald on June 17, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Anchorage Times on August 26, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Anchorage Times on July 15, 1984.
An article about the Green River Killer case that mentions Wendy Coffield published in The Oregonian on April 10, 1986.
The first part of an article about the Green River Killer published in The News Tribune on October 30, 2003.
The second part of an article about the Green River Killer published in The News Tribune on October 30, 2003.
The first part of an article about Ann Rule’s book about the Green River Killer published in The Lewiston Tribune on March 18, 2005.
The second part of an article about Ann Rule’s book about the Green River Killer published in The Lewiston Tribune on March 18, 2005.
The weekend after Wendy Coffield was last seen alive Gary Ridgway went camping with his family, this is a screenshot from a video from that trip.
Ridgway on the same camping trip.
Gisele Ann Lovvorn, who was only seventeen years old when she disappeared on July 17, 1982.
A screenshot from a video taken at a Ridgway family Christmas party in December 1982, roughly six months after Gary killed Wendy Coffield. Courtesy of his niece, Kristen.
A screenshot from a Ridgway family Christmas party from December 1982, roughly six months after Gary killed Wendy Coffield, courtesy of Kristen.
A ‘memory’ on Wendy’s ‘FindAGrave’ page made by her cousin, Sheila Jones.
A Facebook post from December 17, 2014 made by a friend of Wendy’s.
A second Facebook post from December 16, 2021 made by a friend of Wendy’s.
A Facebook post about Wendy made by her sister Patsy about her forty-fifth birthday.
A comment on a YouTube video about Wendy made by an old friend of hers.
Wendy’s father, Herbert Ralph Coffield (front).
Herbert Coffield.
Another picture of Wendy’s father, Herbert Ralph Coffield.
Virginia Eaton from the 1960 Enumclaw High School yearbook.
Herbert and Virginia Coffield’s marriage certificate.
Herbert and Virginia Coffield’s divorce decree.
Patsy Lee Coffield. Photo courtesy of FindAGrave user, ‘Jackie Reese; uploaded on December 18, 2024.
A newspaper clipping announcing the death of Wendy’s father, Herbert Ralph Coffield published in The Bellingham Herald on October 12, 2005.
Herbert Coffields obituary published in The Bellingham Herald on October 28, 2005.
Wendy’s mother, Virginia Lee Eaton.
Wendy’s mother, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Donald Coffield.
Patsy and her cousin, Donald Coffield.
Wendy’s sister, Patsy Lee Coffield.
Another picture of Wendy’s sister, Patsy Lee Coffield.

Ted, Carole, and Rosa.

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I came across quite a few pictures of Ted and his family these past few days and I wanted to share them here. Carole Ann Boone passed away in a retirement home in Seattle in 2018, and where I do know some details about Rose/Rosa’s adult life I will not disclose anything out of respect for her privacy. I was hesitant about including her face in some of these but I found them all quite easily on the public domain.

A rare picture of baby Rosa by herself, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted holding Rosa as a baby. I’ve seen her referred to as both Rose and Rosa.
A happy family: Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa. Sometimes her face is blurred out, and other times it isn’t.
Ted, Jaime Boone, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted and Rosa. Imagine the only time you ever saw your father was under the watchful eye of a prison guard.
A rare picture of Rosa by herself, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted and Rosa.
Ted and his daughter.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Ted and Carole Ann.
Just Ted… he looks so ghastly in this picture.
A young Ted before his time in prison aged him, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.
Another picture of Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of Supernaught.
Ted looks quite a bit heavier than he normally does in this picture.
Ted with some other FSU inmates. Photo courtesy of Supernaught.
Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of the FB group ‘TB’s Crowbar Magazine.’
Another shot of Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of the FB group ‘TB’s Crowbar Magazine.’
A shot of a magazine article about Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
A picture of Carole Ann Boone taken shortly before her death.