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Gary Ridgeway Green River Killer

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Gary Ridgeway Green River Killer

Introduction

The Green River Killer was the name given to a serial killer who murdered numerous women in the state of Washington in a period spanning the 1980 and the early 1990s . At the time , the police and detectives were unable to uncover the true identity of the serial killer , but advances in criminal investigative methodologies later after the turn of the millennium prompted Detective Reichert , a police Officer at

the time of the murders who had now become the sheriff of King County , to revive the case . Fresh investigations uncovered Gary Ridgeway as the killer . He had killed a nine others . Gary Ridgeway killed his victims , who were mainly prostitutes , through strangulation or asphyxiation , sometimes using a ligature (Smith Prothero , 2006

Criminal Typologies

A typology is basically a systematic grouping of entities that have characteristics or traits similar or interrelated in nature , criminal typologies are therefore characterizations of the motivations behind a criminal 's criminal behaviors . In other words , a criminal typology is a theory explained in such a way that it can be effectively applied to practically organize , classify , and understand a range of behaviors and acts that violate the law . In this research , I identify five different criminal typologies that I think would apply to Gary Ridgeway the Green River serial killer and explain the reasons behind my...

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