Human remains found in Seattle serial killer case identified as 14-year-old from Denver
She was the Green River Killer s youngest identified victim to date
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Green River Killer Gary Ridgway, right, talks with his attorney, Mark Prothero, during Ridgway s arraignment on charges of murder in the 1982 death of Rebecca Becky Marrero, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, at the King County Regional Justice Center in Kent., Wash. Ridgway already confessed to killing Marrero as part of a 2003 plea deal that spared him the death penalty. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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On Monday, a sheriff s office in Washington announced it had identified another set of human remains in a serial killer case involving at least 49 murders â this time a 14-year-old from Denver. She is the killer s youngest identified victim to date.
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The youngest known victim of the infamous Green River Killer, who terrorized the Seattle-area during the 1980s, has been identified using genetic genealogy almost 37 years after her remains were found by a baseball field in a suburb outside the city, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
Wendy Stephens was 14 when she ran away from her home in Denver in 1983. A year later the remains of an unidentified girl were found in a wooded area next to a baseball field in what is now the suburb of SeaTac on March 21, 1984, after the groundskeeper s dog came home with a leg bone. Investigators believed she had been strangled to death a year or more earlier.
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Green River Killer victim identified after 40 years
Wendy Stephens was only 14 when she was murdered by Gary Ridgway. Her remains have now been identified through a DNA match.
photo courtesy of King County Sheriff
Mon, 01/25/2021
A previously unidentified victim of Gary Ridgway, dubbed the Green River Killer has been identified some 40 years after her murder.
The King County Prosecutor, Dan Satterberg said she was identified as Wendy Stephens of Denver, Colorado who was only 14 when she was killed. Her remains were identified through a DNA match.
Ridgway was convicted of 49 separate murders during the 1980 s and 1990 s. He confessed to 71 crimes.