Author: KING 5 StaffFILE - In this Feb. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Image shows unidentified victim of Green River Killer Gary Ridgway Two of Gary Ridgway's 48 victims that he pleaded guilty to murdering in 2003 haven't been identified. For the complete list, see Ridgway's Wikipedia page Gail Mathews (1983) Sandra Major (1985) Wendy Stephens (1984, died circa 1983) Jane Doe.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The killer was later identified to be Gary Ridgway. The Green River victims are a group of females murdered in Washington between the 1970s and early 1990s.
Tim Meyer, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office.Ridgway preyed on young women in vulnerable positions, including sex workers and runaways, mostly from 1982 to 1984. She had been killed a year or more earlier, investigators said, and she is believed to have been Ridgway’s youngest victim.The remains of another Ridgway victim, Cheryl Wims, were discovered at the same time.Stephens’ family requested privacy and declined to speak with reporters, said Sgt. “We are thankful that Wendy Stephens’ family will now have answers to their enormous loss suffered nearly 40 years ago.”Researchers at theDNA Doe Project, a volunteer organization that uses publicly available DNA databases to find relatives of unidentified victims, helped make the identification.Stephens’ remains were found in a wooded area next to a baseball field in what is now the suburb of SeaTac on March 21, 1984, after the groundskeeper’s dog came home with a leg bone.
He is now 71, spending the rest of his life at the Washington State Penitentiary. He pleaded guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty after agreeing to help investigators find additional remains.
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