Ridgeway & Yates.

[Drumbum]

Anyone else see something wrong when Gary Ridgeway is able to wiggle out of receiving a death sentence but Robert Yates gets it?

[lynn]

Hi, Could you fill me in on these two individuals, Thanks

[One2Snoop]

Originally Posted by lynn

Hi, Could you fill me in on these two individuals, Thanks

Gary Ridgeway is aka the "Green River Killer"

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_k...r/index_1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway


Robert Lee Gates

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_k.../bodies_1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Yates

[lynn]

Thanks alot one2snoop, I knew the name was familiar, Gary Ridgeway, I shall do alot of reading up. Thanks again.

[One2Snoop]

Originally Posted by lynn

Thanks alot one2snoop, I knew the name was familiar, Gary Ridgeway, I shall do alot of reading up. Thanks again.

You're welcome lynn.

[Amy]

I guess it all comes down to the "deals" they are able to come up with. Ridgeway only had one county to deal with as (he says) all the murders occured in King County. So, his deal covered all the murders he confessed to.

Yates had 2 counties to deal with. The first one he made a deal with, and only received the life sentences. I can't find where there was any deals with the second county for him, where they dealt the DP. Maybe, if they had found any mitigating circumstances, he would have only had life. Maybe he was counting on his meritorious service to his country to balance out that they would not give him DP? If so, he lost that bet. One would wonder, tho, why he would make a deal in one instance, but not in the other. Unless he was thinking they would find him not guilty of the last 2 murders?

[Serial Killer X]

Originally Posted by Drumbum

Anyone else see something wrong when Gary Ridgeway is able to wiggle out of receiving a death sentence but Robert Yates gets it?

It's True Gary Ridgeway should of gotten the Death Setence. Didn't he kill prostitutes through out the 1980's?

[evabaruk]

I think the disparity in sentences probably had more to do with the desire to find/identify Ridgeway's victims.

[Serial Killer X]

Originally Posted by evabaruk

I think the disparity in sentences probably had more to do with the desire to find/identify Ridgeway's victims.

That May Be True But Didn't The Police And The Victim's Family's Have A Desire To Find There Body's?

[Drumbum]

Yates is gonna die soon..we hope.