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The remains of the last known victim of the Green River Killer have been identified as a Washington State teen – though investigators say there may still be other unsolved cases linked to the infamous murderer. The partial remains were identified as belonging to Tammie Liles, of Everett, the King’s County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) announced. “With this identification, there are no other unidentified remains associated with the Green River Case,” the sheriff’s office said. The incomplete set of bones and teeth were first discovered in 2003, when serial killer Gary Ridgway – known as the Green River Killer – led...

Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, was treated for a subdural hematoma, apparently due to a minor head injury, after being admitted to a Washington, D.C., hospital on Wednesday. His office said Reichert was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after feeling ill. Following an evaluation, doctors performed a procedure to treat a chronic subdural hematoma — collection of blood on the surface of the brain — that was likely the result of a minor head injury. The procedure was successful, and Reichert is expected to make a complete recovery, his office said. He's expected to be discharged in a few days.

“Never before have so few stolen so much from so many for so little.” -Jefferson Paine Open Letter to: Mr. David Reichert Republican Representative Washington State Delegation June 30th, 2009 Dear Mr. Reichert, Please, resign your seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because of your “Yes” vote in favor of the abominable “Cap and Trade” or “Climate Change” bill - and without having even read the final bill in its entirety before voting on it. Your egregious voting record does not represent me, or of any Republican that I know. Since your debut in Congress, I have been watching...

FULL TITLE: Seattle's Green River killer confesses to slaying nearly DOUBLE the 49 women he's convicted of killing in first ever interview A Seattle-area truck painter who was unmasked as the Green River serial killer has claimed he murdered up to 80 women over two decades - nearly double the number he was convicted of killing. Gary Ridgway is currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences in a Washington state prison. But in a series of interviews conducted over the past five months, he is now claiming there are significantly more victims and he says he is coming clean to help...

Bones discovered along a hillside in 1985 have been identified as belonging to a victim of the notorious Green River Killer, deputies in Washington said. DNA identified the remains of 15-year-old Lori Anne Razpotnik decades after she went missing, the King County Sheriff’s Office said in a Dec. 19 news release. Razpotnik was one of 49 women Gary Ridgway is accused of killing in the 1980s and 1990s in Washington. She ran away from her home in Lewis County in 1982 and never returned, deputies said.

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities hope a facial reconstruction of a girl who was slain by a Seattle-area serial killer will help identify the victim. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the reconstruction of the girl, who was one of Gary Ridgway’s victims.

Green River Killer Gary Ridgway is facing his 49th murder charge for the death of a woman whose skull was found by teenagers in a ravine, 28 years after she went missing. Ridgway, 61, is already serving 48 consecutive life sentences after being jailed in 2003 for a strangling spree which terrorised Seattle and its northern suburbs in the early 1980s. He once said he killed so many women he could not keep track of them all. He had previously confessed to killing Rebecca 'Becky' Marrero, a 20-year-old mother and prostitute last seen when she left a motel in 1982.

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Green_River.html Tuesday, November 22, 2005 · Last updated 1:43 p.m. PT Skull of Green River serial killer victim found By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEATTLE -- A weekend hiker found the skull of one of the 48 women Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors. The skull of Tracy Winston, who was 19 when she disappeared from Northgate Mall on Sept. 12, 1983, was found Sunday by a man hiking in a wooded area near Highway 18 near Issaquah, southeast of Seattle. The sheriff's office used...

Dave Reichert, King County sheriff, is running for Congress. Six weeks before the Sept. 14 primary, three months before the general election in November, his book has arrived. It's no political biography. Reichert never mentions his Republican candidacy. "Chasing the Devil" tells the story of his two-decade hunt for the Green River Killer. On the back cover, Reichert faces the camera and stands like a two-by-four, muscled forearms crossed, eyes aimed at the lens in a grim don't-mess-with-me stare. His white hair is perfect. Any reporter who's covered Reichert knows the pose. It's not phony. It's just him: the smoldering...

SEATTLE - The handcuffs were a badge of pride for the cop who carried them, like a ballplayer's old glove. Once shiny, they had worn a dull and heavy gray over decades of use. Cheryl Payseno shows the handcuffs that once belonged to her husband, detective Paul Smith, who died of leukemia in 1985. After Smith's death, detective Randy Mullinax, left, inherited them. On Nov. 30, 2001, Mullinax used them to cuff Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer. Randy Mullinax inherited them from Paul Smith, a veteran King County detective who died of leukemia in 1985. Since then, the cuffs...

Letter From A Serial Killer SEATTLE - Green River killer Gary Leon Ridgway sent a bizarre anonymous letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer nearly 20 years ago in what the newspaper said Friday was a "brazen attempt to throw off investigators." Authorities at the time wrongly concluded it wasn't from the real killer, the paper said. Now, police say Ridgway admitted writing the letter when he began confessing this summer to killing 48 women. The paper said it had turned the letter over to investigators in 1984 and never reported on it, in part because of doubts about its authenticity....

Nov 7, 2003 Task Force Offers Glimpse Into Ridgway's Life in Custody By Gene Johnson Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) - For the five months after he agreed to cooperate with detectives, Green River Killer Gary Ridgway lived in a 10 foot-by-12 foot room on the ground floor of an office building in an industrial stretch of Seattle. There were no windows in his cell, just a camera, a motion detector, plain beige walls, blue carpeting and a mattress. A few feet away were the cubicles where a dozen detectives had worked feverishly since Sept. 11, 2001 - the day...

SEATTLE - Legal experts say the plea bargain with the Green River Killer raises a thorny question: If the state of Washington is not going to execute someone who has confessed to murdering 48 people, how can it ever again put anyone to death? It is a question of simple fairness: Under state law, the Washington state Supreme Court is required to review every death sentence handed out, and must consider whether the sentence "is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant." Some lawyers say a death sentence for someone...

From statement of Green River killer Gary Ridgway, read in court Wednesday by prosecutor Jeff Baird: I killed the 48 women listed in the state's second amended information. In most cases when I killed these women I did not know their names. Most of the time I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight. I have reviewed information and discovery about each of the murders with my attorneys and I am positive that I killed...

<p>SEATTLE — In a deal with prosecutors, Gary Ridgway (search) is apparently close to securing what authorities claim he denied his many victims: life.</p> <p>Ridgway was scheduled Wednesday to plead guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder, making him the nation's deadliest serial killer (search), sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.</p>