Gary Ridgway murdered numerous women and girls.
Gary Ridgway . He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders and later confessed to nearly twice that number . He murdered numerous women and girls in Washington State during the 1980s and 1990s . On November 30 , 2001 , as he was leaving the Kenworth truck factory where he worked in Renton , Washington , he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence .