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Gary Ridgway Case

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Gary Ridgway was finally arrested on November 30, 2001 at the age of fifty one. On December 5, 2001 he was charged with four counts of aggravated murder. “It was twenty years after first being identified as a potential suspect when DNA evidence conclusively linked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the police (Murderpedia).” In 2002, there was a written document noting he would seek the death penalty. In order to not prolong the trail, the King County Supeior Court set a charging deadline for March 28, 2003. The prosecutors and detectives worked hard to link him to the women they had found. They brought more charges, and he pleaded guilty to all of them. They had seven counts of aggravated fist murder, but there was little

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