6. The Green River Killer
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Gary Ridgway, also known as the “Green River Killer”, sought out predominantly non-white prostitutes, raped them, murdered them, then disposed of them in the now infamous Green River area. A married man who held the same job for thirty years, felt he was doing the authorities a favour, picking hookers not only because of the unlikely missing persons ad to follow them, but also because of his personal hatred of hookers, not wanting to pay for sex (even though he was married), and thinking he was cleaning the streets for the authorities who could clean up near as quickly or in the same way. Pleading guilty to forty eight counts of aggravated, first-degree murder, Ridgway went to serve his life sentence (avoiding the death penalty for his cooperation in pointing out the locations of bodies), holding his head high, loving what he called his job, ridding the world of filth. Claiming to have murdered seventy five to eighty women, Ridgway raped and murdered girls as young as fifteen years old. Another body surfacing in 2011, the “Green River Killer” was handed another life sentence.
5. Colin Ireland
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Colin Ireland, also known as the “Gay Slayer” was criminal from a very early age, convicted of theft, burglary, and blackmail in his teenage years. In and out of marriage, unsure of his direction in life, Ireland decided to try his hand at serial murder, training his focus on homosexual sadomasochists: people who were less likely to be missed (as is so common with these cowardly criminals), and people who were more likely to be accepting of being bound, making would-be victims less likely to look for help as well, given England’s law against sadomasochistic sex acts. Making it a New Year’s resolution to become a serial killer, Colin Ireland targeted five gay men, went back with them to their homes, or hotel rooms, bound them, strangled them, cleaned the scene, leaving teddy bears or dead cats in odd sexual positions near or on the corpses (with exception to one case where he set the dead man’s apartment on fire). Seemingly wanting to be caught, Ireland continued to call and coax the authorities who failed to initially make a connection between the first two murders. Eventually turning himself in, and confessing, Ireland was sentenced to five life terms with no chance for parole… killing only once again, a child-murderer in prison.
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