Green river killer biography unsuspecting wife pictures

Some time after Gary Ridgway shocked the world with his confession to 48 murders, his third wife, Judith, announced that she would collaborate on a book about him. It was not her intention to "cash in" so much as to let people know that not only had Gary treated her well, he'd been a dream come true.

In comparison to the other men with whom she'd been involved (she had previously married a bisexual man), Gary was her hero. She apparently had a positive effect on him as well, because after they married his urge to kill diminished somewhat.

Still, he did continue.

Pennie Morehead, an expert on graphology, penned Green River Serial Killer: Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife, concluding it with her own analysis of Ridgway's handwriting.

"When I first met Judith Ridgway," she says in the introduction, "she was still clinging to the hope that her husband, the infamous Green River Killer, was innocent." In Judith and several of her