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1
They should file charges against Reichert for botching that case!
2
What @1 said.

And send him the bill, too.
3
Let me get this straight. Ridgway was spared the death penalty because of how many women he killed, because he killed so many they could not all be accounted for? And if he had killed just a few and they could all be accounted for, he would've been put to death?

I hope future prospective serial killers are not watching this unfolding. If they are, society is encouraging them to kill more, not less.

Something's sick in the prosecutor's office.
4
Can someone clarify this sentence, because it is not making sense to me:

"To impose the death penalty would have, in effect, put a stop to new evidence in cases like Marrero's."

What "evidence" would have been stopped if Ridgway had been put to death? He didn't tell investigators where to find Marrero's remains, right? And, at this point, he has a personal interest in taking blame for murders, whether or not he committed them, to avoid being accused of reneging on his original plea agreement.

So, does it really provide any closure for a family that suspected he was responsible from the outset to accept responsibility, which has no negative consequences for him?
5
@3 No, they only could get Ridgway on 7 of the murders. He signed a plea bargain where he confirmed 41 other victims in exchange for not facing the death penalty. Were they to only prosecute on those 7 murders, he likely would have been executed, but we would be left with the lingering question about the other 41. Although at one point, I think he claimed to have killed like 80 women, but there wasn't enough corroborating evidence to pin the remaining murders on him.

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