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First contact. The call -- Unprepared -- Unsolved cases -- Background and victims. His origins -- Catalysts to kill -- Feelings for me -- Blame -- Women as objects -- The survivors -- Motivations and psychology. Sex and pleasure -- Pedophilia/age of victims -- Jealousy and fear of rejection -- Power and control -- Killer characteristics. Planning ahead -- Unremarkable -- True intentions -- Manipulation and gaslighting -- Arthur -- Robin -- Faux concern -- Perception of Gary. Lots of Gary Ridgways out there -- Separating himself from what he's done -- His reputation -- Media about him -- Recidivism -- Remorse and memory -- Death and what comes after. The afterlife -- Death and necrophilia -- Finding religion -- Murder house -- Fading strength and memory
"When crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo mailed a letter to Gary Ridgway, she never expected him to reply. He refused to speak to reporters and would send only religious materials back to anyone who contacted him in prison--if he replied at all. But instead of silence or a boilerplate letter, Maria's phone rang?and it was the Green River Killer calling. Over the next several years, Ridgway would call Maria hundreds of times, using all of his free time in prison to speak with her. Her goal: to pry the details of his dozens of unidentified and unsolved murders from him. His motivation in speaking to her: unknowable. Through these hundreds of hours of phone calls, Ridgway revealed new details about his life, his crimes, and his motives -- and manipulated Maria much like he tormented his victims. An insightful and deeply personal profile of a dangerous mind, Confessions of the Green River Killer is the closest depiction of Gary Ridgway ever seen and a disturbing glimpse into what it's like to truly know a killer."--