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Green River killer's comic collection?

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CGCMINT

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Is it true that this Green River killer sold his comic book collection?

 

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Suspect Said to Plead Guilty to Slayings

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By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

 

SEATTLE - The man suspected of being the Green River Killer has agreed to plead guilty next week to the murders of 48 women in a deal that would spare him from execution, a source told The Associated Press on Thursday.

 

 

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Gary Leon Ridgway, a 54-year-old truck painter arrested in the serial killer case in 2001, will admit to murdering 42 women on investigators' list of Green River Killer victims, as well as six women not on the list, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.

 

 

The Green River Killer preyed mostly on prostitutes, drug addicts, young runaways and other women on the streets. The case is named for the waterway where the first bodies were found in the suburbs south of Seattle in mid-1982. Most of the slayings were in the mid-1980s, but one of the slayings to which Ridgway will plead guilty was in 1998, the source said.

 

 

In many cases, the killer had sex with his victim and then strangled her.

 

 

Ridgway was arrested nearly two years ago and was ultimately charged with seven slayings. Prosecutors said DNA evidence and microscopic paint particles linked him to most of those killings.

 

 

Seattle-area newspapers and TV stations had been reporting the possibility of a plea bargain over the past few days.

 

 

With the death penalty off the table, Ridgway would face life in prison without parole — the only other penalty for aggravated murder under Washington law.

 

 

Detective Kathleen Larson, a spokeswoman for the Green River Killer task force, would not comment when contacted by the AP on Wednesday and Thursday.

 

 

The women Ridgway will admit killing who were not on the list include Patricia Ann Yellow Robe, 38, of Seattle, a nurse's aide who was found dead by a wrecking crew in 1998.

 

 

"I guess I'm a little stunned, you know," said her father, Joe Yellow Robe of Box Elder, Mont., told KING-TV. "I find it incredible that an individual was able to cause that many deaths, to perpetrate that much suffering and misery on so many people."

 

 

Task force detectives have found four sets of human remains at various sites in recent months. That led to speculation that Ridgway himself was directing investigators to the burial sites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yep, it's the Green River books that you see on eBay. Sckao, who is a forum member, bought a bunch of them. I believe he said the books were given to the lawyer of the accused as payment for the defense. They almost all have red date stamps on the cover.

 

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Yep, it's the Green River books that you see on eBay. Sckao, who is a forum member, bought a bunch of them. I believe he said the books were given to the lawyer of the accused as payment for the defense. They almost all have red date stamps on the cover.

 

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Yep, it's the Green River books that you see on eBay. Sckao, who is a forum member, bought a bunch of them. I believe he said the books were given to the lawyer of the accused as payment for the defense. They almost all have red date stamps on the cover.

 

Brian

 

So this a Green River Pedigree II?

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The guy who owned these books was just a suspect in the Green River killings. His name was William Stevens. He wasn't, as is evidenced by the news article that starts this thread, the Green River Killer.

 

William Stevens' adopted brother--the one who owned half of the comics in the collection--has a web site where he seems absolutely convinced based upon his knowledge of growing up with William that he was involved in the killings along with this guy who is the subject of the article. William has been dead for some time now. One of William's main defenses is that he was out of state at the time of the killings, but the brother says he kept travelling back and forth to the Green River area from the state he lived in with his parents during the time the killings took place.

 

Here's the brother's web site: http://www.cet.com/~snevets/

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Did you ever try to track down the surviving brother's books? I talked to Hauser and the dealer in Oregon he worked with who knew of it, and I'm not near my notes and can't remember them all, but I don't think they know what happened to most of them.

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Did you ever try to track down the surviving brother's books? I talked to Hauser and the dealer in Oregon he worked with who knew of it, and I'm not near my notes and can't remember them all, but I don't think they know what happened to most of them.

 

Yes.. but didn't come up with much.

 

I don't know if they have the same pedigree designation with CGC since I don't know if they were stored similarly.

 

I recently found out that the original price paid for the collection was $25,000 and that Hauser went into it 50/50 with James Haack.

 

I may look into it further when I have more time.

 

There's another collector in New York now (ancientspawn on eBay) who is buying some of them as they come up for auction.

 

 

 

 

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Yes, I own about 90 books from the Green River collection. According to my count, there are 1691 books in all. Highest book graded so far is a 9.6 I believe.

 

You can learn a bit more about the collection from my Website:

 

Green River Pedigree

 

 

Do you have some of those early Spiderman's with the *gulp* BULLET HOLES?

 

I noticed it here: http://www.corpcity.com/CGC/green-river-list.pdf

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Yes, I own about 90 books from the Green River collection. According to my count, there are 1691 books in all. Highest book graded so far is a 9.6 I believe.

 

You can learn a bit more about the collection from my Website:

 

Green River Pedigree

 

 

Do you have some of those early Spiderman's with the *gulp* BULLET HOLES?

 

I noticed it here: http://www.corpcity.com/CGC/green-river-list.pdf

 

"... O.R.V... bullet holes... BULLET HOLES?!?!?!?!"

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