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.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.
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