In one letter that he wrote from prison to a journalist, Brady explained: Hindley claimed that she was under Brady’s spell and that she took part in the crimes against her will. Three graves were discovered on Saddleworth Moor in Manchester, England, but the killers never revealed the final resting place of their other victims. The “Moors Murderers,” Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, killed five children between 10 and 17 years old in the early 1960s.

His plea bargain raised his murder convictions to 49. He was spared the death penalty as part of a plea bargain where he disclosed the locations of the missing bodies. Ridgway’s game of playing cat and mouse with the police finally came to an end in 2001 when DNA evidence connected him to the murders. Police claimed that it was a “brazen attempt to throw off investigators.” At the time, they did not follow up on this key evidence. In disturbing detail, the killer wrote about necrophilia and cutting off the fingernails of victims before signing off as “callmefred.” In 1984, he wrote a letter about the murders titled “what you need to know about the green river man” and sent it to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Ridgway said, “I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.”

Gary Ridgway became known as the “Green River Killer” after he confessed to murdering 48 sex workers and runaways in the state of Washington during the 1980s and 1990s.

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