Gary Ridgway killed people.
Gary Ridgway . He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders and later confessed to nearly twice that number . Most of his victims were alleged to be sex workers and other women in vulnerable situations , including underage runaways . After strangling them , he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas in King County , often returning to the dead bodies to have sexual intercourse with them . 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 .