Green River Killer
I am watching the episode with Gary Ridgeway now. I can't imagine not knowing you are dating a serial killer. I guess being an OTR trucker is a good cover.
shareI'm sorry, but his wife was in denial or just "looked the other way". The detective said the GRK would prowl late at night, even when he had to work the next day. Any woman is going to know if her husband slips out late at night, what does she think he was doing? She seemed a little dim, but come on!
shareShe really didn't seem all that with it. I wouldn't be surprised if she genuinely had no idea. The fact that she continued to write to him while he was in prison speaks volumes about her. What normal, sane woman would do that?
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Actually Judith was a VERY innocent & somewhat naive lady. She honestly did NOT have a clue that Gary could be so evil. He treated her very, very well and was always sweet & kind to her. I know, that's hard to believe but as with most serial killers, they have two totally separate personas.
That's how they get away with it for so long- they have a normal life "he's the best neighbor", "he was such a great guy, we couldn't believe it" and the like. Then they have the "other side", the evil, demented, SICK, TWISTED side that enjoys hurting people.
Judith wasn't much for watching the news (I don't often watch it myself, for the very same reasons), it's always BAD. Full of death, rape, theft etc... Anyway, she had never even heard of the "Green River killer" until the detectives showed up at her door.
She trusted and believed her husband when he said they were mistaken and "it would all be straightened out". Even after he was arrested, he continued to deceive her and promised it would all be 'fixed", it was just a mistake. Like any good & loving wife, she believed him!
Once she started hearing the evidence & adding things up- she knew he was guilty but before that she believed him. Perhaps because she loved him and wanted to believe he was innocent- perhaps due to her own naivety- it's tough to say.
I felt very sorry for her- she honestly loved him and he betrayed that love & trust in the WORST possible way imaginable. Poor lady.. Can you even imagine her EVER fully trusting another man? Or another human being for that matter..
Poor lady...
BTW- Ridgeway was a truck painter at the Kenworth Truck Plant. He wasn't a long haul truck driver. Some of the special paint they used there was part of the evidence they had against him, they found flecks of it on several of his victims.
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It's so eerie that he worked in Renton. My father grew up there and had lived in the Seattle area much of his childhood and early adulthood. He was in the area at the time of the murders and told me about this case when I asked him about it after watching this show. Gary's wife just strikes me as nothing more than naive. It's good she ultimately cut ties with that monster.
shareHaha, it's funny to see someone talking about Renton on here :) That's where I live ;) I'm there right now! Anywho, I came on here to say that there's no way 5 years into the killings that his wife had literally never heard of the GRK. BS. There is absolutely no way around it. Watch the news or not, for 5 years you escaped hearing about one of the biggest stories in the country and one unfolding right in your backyard @ that. Either she's lying or there's something maybe wrong with her-a little slow or something.
shareI love Renton. flipflopseveryday! You are so lucky to live there. It is such a beautiful community. If I were to live in the Seattle area, I'd definitely want to live there.
I talked to my dad and told him how she supposedly hadn't ever heard of the GRK. He too said as someone living in Renton and the greater Seattle/Tacoma area, that there was no way she couldn't have heard of it. She could be lying or you could be right about her being off or slow. She really didn't strike me as someone who was playing with a full deck based on her interview.
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