ridgway, i want you to look me in the face. >> families of gary ridgway's victims would get to confront him, but they would have to wait. while police conducted a videotaped interrogation that laid bare the mind of a monster. >> i killed her because i wanted to. going to go for a walk. i had her move around so i could get behind her. and in doing so, i needed to have -- to raise her head up to wrap my arm around her and kill her. i said oh, no, there's my son getting out of the car or something similar to that. so she raised her head up and that's when i put my arm around her, my right arm and i started choking her. >> ridgway says he promised if she didn't make any noise, he would let her go. then he finished strangling her using his socks and calmly walked back to the truck and his son. >> did he ask where the lady was? >> i said she wanted to walk home. she doesn't live that far away. my urge to have sex and to kill her was more than for the safety of matthew. >> sheriff reichert had a lot riding on the interrogation. he wanted to make sure ridgway was pushed hard. and reichert could

ridgway readily admitted he patronized prostitutes with an addictive fervor. >> gary ridgway, even up until the time he was arrested, enjoyed the excitement of hunting for prostitutes. he enjoyed the control that it gave him had he got one in his car, and whatever he did afterwards, this was all about gary ridgway's pleasure. >> in fact, only weeks before he was charged in the green river murders, he was picked up once again by the vice squad for soliciting prostitution. and ridgway's chief defense attorney tony savage used that fact. arguing that his client patronized hundreds of prostitutes, even prostitutes who later turned up dead. and that it proved nothing. >> it proves he was a customer, not a killer. i mean, you don't commit prostitution by waving at somebody from 50 yards away. it's a full contact proposition. >> so by definition, there's dna evidence? >> well, from the male point of view, that's the object is to leave some dna behind. assuming that they can show it was mr. ridgway's dna, and we're not conceding that for a minute, they're not going to show that he was the las

book onneral ridgway's page 276 he says -- i would read it to see if you would comment on it. general ridgway's statement, i felt it was essential that all who had any influence in making the decision on this grave matter should be aware of all the factors involved. a lot of these facts i sent out to indochina, a team of experts in every field. engineers, communication specialists medical officers and experience combat leaders who knew how to evaluate in terms of battle tactics. the area that they found was practically devoid of those facilities which modern forces such as ours find essential to the waging of war. telecommunications, highways and railways all the things that make possible the operation of a modern combat force on land were almost nonexistent. the facilities and airfields were totally inadequate and to provide facilities we would need would require tremendous engineering and logistic efforts . on page 277 he writes, we could have fought in indochina and we could have one if we had been willing to pay the tremendous cost and men and money that such intervention

. >> did you participate in the study that general ridgway ordered relative to the feasibility of, at that time entering in to indochina? >> yes mr. chairman, we consider the advisability of entering the hanoi delta and as i recall, we talked about the need and many engineer battalions. around we anticipated 35. environmental losses would be very great and there was some talk about the significance of hanoi island if we would go into the delta. we give it quite thorough consideration. >> in general ridgway's book on page 276 he says -- i would read it to see if you would comment on it. this is general ridgway's statement, i felt it was essential that all who had any influence in making the decision on this grave matter should be aware of all the factors involved. a lot of these facts i sent out to indochina, a team of experts in every field. engineers, communication specialists medical officers and experience combat leaders who knew how to evaluate in terms of battle tactics. the area that they found was practically devoid of those facilities which modern forces such as ours find esse

ridgway. if you are traveling in either direction, give yourself extra time. we have fog out there too. the fog will be with us throughout tomorrow. if it is not raining, there will be fog and locations. we have ample moisture. we have all of this moisture that is continuing to work in from the west. it is a one, two punch. the area of low pressure will the second one will have the most impact -- intense impact with stronger storms as we head into wednesday. that is when we could see the chance of maybe some severe weather. we cannot rule out some damaging winds and tornadoes with this too. wednesday is what we are keeping a watchful eye on with all of this energy that has to pass through the region. right now, 50s and 60s. we will see the numbers falling into the low 50s.future wach, as far as the weather goes, as we get into that wedge pattern, when the cold air gets trapped on the backside of appalachians, we see temperatures well below the average. the models have a hard time addressing th

the award statues are made by a company in ridgway, colorado. they are all made in the workshop of artist john billings. he says the ones they get onstage are strictly props, the engraved grammys will be sent to the winners about a month from now. apple is working to they discovered if you do this one thing... it can kill your phone or ipad. google is going to shut down its free online editing the company will no longer support the picasa desktop app. google says it wants to focus on just one photo service... 'google photos' if you already have picasa -- you can still use it... but google won't provide anymore updates. picasa users will be able to access all their photos through google photos. google says if you don't want to use google photos, the company plans to create a quote "new place to access your picasa web data." apparently going back to the 19-70s can kill your i- phone. apple says manually changing the date to may 19- 70 or earlier can prevent the device from turning on after a restart. apple has not provided a reason for the bug, bu

a 20 -year-old woman has just passed ridgway car driven by a 48 no man slammed into her vehicle sending it airborne. she was pronounced dead at the cedric they rushed the male driver to metro. no word yet on his condition or what possible charges he could face. >> the lack of money means something has to go. >> according to the mayor that means the areas police department so share his controversy all proposal. it all comes down to a financial issue and where to cut right. >> san britain recently wrote an open letter to the community say in the numbers don't add up. he says madison village news to cut costs and the police department is the place to do it. >> some people living in madison department should be a requirement. >> safety, security not to mention peace of mind. that's what please invite me to this madison couple who have lived here for the last eight years. >> i think i would pay more to have our village police officers there. >> that the mayor says eliminated his injuries police department is necessary due to budget concerns and wants to contract with nearby madison township.

-year-old daniel ridgway line in the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds. the image crushed him to university hospital where he died from his injuries. and he. animal information about the shooting contact. you may remember 45 -year-old james him was killed -- which fell while he was driving on the rafter. investigators say he ignored the warning signs and how the security fence and coaster hit him. the park park security procedures already exceed ohio industry standards and they will not make any changes before the park opens in may. >> it is not a site you're used to seeing here in february. some for a walk along park and others even got their motorcycles out for a ride. >> this is northeast ohio. it's still very nice. 's bills to change is on the way way. we are gusting to 43 mouse per tonight. the rain already on storm fox in our western county. getting ready to push into hearing come to the cold front still has yet to work its way to the area. it's the paint line of yellow and that is the leading edge of the front. they're not expecting rain or snow is

. -- in the 50s after highs in ridgway, lease bill, all making it into the 70s with the exception of saluted at 69. for the night, we will be dealing with off and on clouds. the pictures on the mild side. the average high this time of year about 57. we stay at 50 -- in the 50s for any of you may be heading to work and taking the kids to school with the windows down. we will have 61 at 9 am. you will see some sunshine, but the clouds tomorrow will bring some changes for the end of the week or quibble look at that later on. >>> new at 10. columbia police need help finding this man. is a person an interest in a sexual assault case. investigators say that early saturday morning someone sexually assaulted a woman near the 800 block of arm will street. if you recognize the man s sn in this video, call crime stoppers at one 1888 crime sc.>>> mother emanuel church has been nominated for the nobel peace prize. the group in chicago signed off the nomination this morning praising its response to the june shooting massacre. it is headed to the committee in norway. illinois lawmakers were part of

matthew ridgway's commanding united nations troops. joy.man, a vice admiral this is a color pencil and nontraditional paint by herbert hahn. it does highlight how talented he is. it is incredibly lifelike. in 1952, stalin dies and the bureau decides i don't want to fight in korea a longer. chinese cannot fight the soviets without their machinery so they decide to finally make progress toward the cease-fire. this is a painting by russell o'connor depicting the signing of the armistice. the korean war does not and bang with a peace agreement -- does with a peace agreement. the thing that held the cease-fire for a long time was what to do with p.o.w.'s. particularly the north korean and chinese troops. the west is not want them to go back to the communist regimes. communist regimes do not want to prevent them from returning. a neutral third party must be set up to talk to all the uw's -- to all p.o.w.s and ask where they would like to be returned to and they will be returned to that location. this is a great image of a north korean p.o.w.

. >> reporter: a jeep, completely up in flames on the ridgway exit ooff 385. >> going in the car. and said we got to get this man out the car. >> rorter: whichnesses say on 385 when he was sideswiped by another car pushing him down hillnd into this pole. moments later, flames can through the hood of the car. >> couldn't find anything but a gallon of water. i tried to wet him if the fire got inside the car wouldn't burn him as bad as kept him as moist as copossibly be. >> reporter: they tried to find a fire extinguisher but were unsuccessful. moments later a man ran over with a jack iron and oke through the window. >> past the seat belts. 3 3. >> and to have been completely trapped in the driver's seat because the steering wheel was pressed up against him and his chest. >> reporter: they dragged the man to safety and moments late, loud popping noises came from the car, a nose they say they won't forget. >> we need to get this man out of here. >> reportet: a noncritical condition, but a sight that brought tears to many that's comptely burned up vehicle sitting on the front seat. >>

matthew ridgway's commanding united nations troops. joy.man, a vice admiral this is a color pencil and nontraditional paint by herbert hahn. it does highlight how talented he is. it is incredibly lifelike. in 1952, stalin dies and the bureau decides i don't want to fight in korea a longer.