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Gary Ridgway, otherwise known as the Green River Killer, has admitted to killing dozens of women in the Pacific Northwest, a confession that gives him more murder convictions than any other serial killer in U.S. history. He was arrested in 2001 after DNA evidence led to seven murder charges against the 54-year-old. Ridgway later provided police with detailed information in locating his victim's bodies.

According to reports of a confession read in court, Ridgway said he has killed so many women he has a hard time keeping them straight. Ridgway also said he wanted to kill as many women as he possibly could.

The remains of dozens of women turned up near Pacific Northwest ravines, rivers, airports and freeways in the 1980s. Of them, investigators officially listed 49 women as probable victims of the Green River Killer.

Two of the bodies on the official list of Green River victims were found in Oregon, a state that gives capital punishment for murder.

Investigators also recently found human bones in two other locations near Seattle. Investigators say six women are still missing from the Green River case.

Now, many speculate Ridgway provided information in exchange for a plea deal that would save him from the death penalty and give him life without parole.

We think this is ludicrous.

We're not abdicating the death penalty, but in this case we think it's only fair.

Ridgway will live out the remainder of his life on the taxpayer's dime after slaying dozens of women.

The punishment for a man who could quite possibly have a higher body count than any other serial killer in the nation's history is simple - "an eye for an eye."