B.C. prostitutes say they saw Ridgway on streets
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Prostitutes in Vancouver, B.C., where 45 women are feared dead after disappearing from the streets, have told authorities they saw Gary Ridgway cruising the streets for sex. Although investigators with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police say they haven’t confirmed those reports, they acknowledge that they are continuing to search for a link between the missing women — mostly prostitutes and drug addicts who disappeared during the past 18 years — and Ridgway, the man accused of four Green River killings. Canadian authorities are also looking at a possible link to the slayings of three prostitutes found near Agassiz, B.C., in 1995. In those three cases, police secured DNA samples of the killer — samples they plan to check against Ridgway’s, said Sgt. Wayne Clary, an RCMP investigator and a member of a task force examining the disappearances. At the same time, the King County Sheriff’s Office is looking at as many as 40 other cases involving women with ties to prostitution who have disappeared or have been found dead in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties since 1985, said John Urquhart, a sheriff’s spokesman. So far, the Green River investigation has focused only on the 49 women who disappeared between 1982 and 1984. More : seattlepi.nwsource.com |