Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer or the Green River Strangler, is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering forty-nine women between 1982 and 1998 in the northwestern United States. At the time of his arrest in 2001, he was believed to be the most prolific serial killer in United States history, according to confirmed murders.Template:Refn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Kershaw, Sarah (November 6, 2003). Truck painter admits he's the Green River strangler. The Post-Standard. Retrieved May 22, 2025.</ref>

Most of Ridgway's victims were alleged sex workers or other women in vulnerable circumstances, including underage runaways. Before his capture, media outlets nicknamed him the Green River Killer or Green River Strangler due to his first five victims being found at the Green River in Washington State.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Ridgway strangled his victims, usually by hand, but sometimes using ligatures. After strangling them, he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas, often returning to the bodies to engage in acts of necrophilia.<ref name="Prothero 2006">Template:Cite book</ref>

Ridgway had been a suspect in the Green River case since 1982; however, investigators were unable to link him to the murders at that time. Later advances in DNA profiling allowed investigators to definitively link Ridgway to the murders, and he was arrested on November 30, 2001, as he was leaving the Kenworth truck factory where he worked in Renton, Washington.<ref name="Prothero 2006" /> As part of a plea bargain wherein he agreed to disclose the locations of still-missing women, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Early life

Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the second of three sons to Thomas and Mary Ridgway. His childhood was somewhat troubled; relatives later described his mother as a domineering woman who inflicted corporal punishment upon her sons for minor offenses.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ridgway himself would later tell defense psychologists that, as an adolescent, he had conflicting feelings of anger and sexual attraction toward his mother, and fantasized about killing her.<ref name=Seattle>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=banality>Template:Cite news</ref> Ridgway's father, whose marriage to Ridgway's mother was volatile, worked as a bus driver and often complained about the presence of sex workers on his route.<ref name=Time>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ridgway, who is dyslexic, was held back a year in high school and exhibited an IQ recorded as being in the "low eighties."<ref name=banality /><ref name=Time/> When he was aged 16, Ridgway lured a six-year-old boy into woodland and stabbed him through the ribs into his liver; the boy managed to survive the attack.<ref name="about">Template:Cite web</ref>

Adult life

Ridgway in 1982

Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married his 19-year-old high school sweetheart, Claudia Kraig. He joined the United States Navy<ref name= "about" /> and was deployed to Vietnam, where he served on board a supply ship<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and saw combat.<ref name=Time/> During his time in the military, Ridgway had frequent sexual intercourse with sex workers and contracted gonorrhea; although Kraig was angered by this, he continued this activity without protection. His marriage to Kraig ended within a year.<ref name="about" />

When questioned about Ridgway after his arrest, friends and family described him as friendly but strange. His first two marriages resulted in divorce because of infidelities by both partners. His second wife, Marcia Winslow, claimed that he had placed her in a chokehold.<ref name= Time /> Ridgway became religious during his second marriage, proselytizing door-to-door, reading the Bible aloud at work and at home, and insisting that his wife follow the strict teachings of their pastor.<ref name="about" /> He would also frequently cry after reading the Bible or hearing sermons.<ref name=Time /> Despite his beliefs, Ridgway continued to solicit the services of sex workers and asked his wife to participate in sex in public or in inappropriate places, sometimes even in areas where his victims' bodies were later discovered.<ref name= "about" />

According to women in his life, Ridgway had an insatiable sexual appetite. His three ex-wives and several ex-girlfriends reported that he demanded sex from them several times a day.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Often, he would want to have sex in a public area or in the woods.<ref name="about" />

Ridgway admitted to having a fixation with sex workers,<ref name= "riverman">Template:Cite book</ref> with whom he had a love/hate relationship. He frequently complained about their presence in his neighborhood, but he also took advantage of their services regularly. In a statement read at his plea hearing, Ridgway said he hated prostitutes and did not want to pay them for sex.<ref name="KIRO" /> Some have speculated that Ridgway was torn between his lusts and his staunch religious beliefs.<ref name=Time /> With his second wife Marcia, Ridgway had a son.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Murders

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In court statements, Ridgway later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count. A majority of the murders occurred between 1982 and 1984. The victims were believed to be either sex workers or runaways, whom he picked up along Pacific Highway South.<ref name="MalengOR"/> Ridgway sometimes showed the women a picture of his son, to trick them into trusting him. They would engage in sexual activity, and after minutes of intercourse from behind, Ridgway would wrap his forearm around the front of their necks and use the other arm to pull back as tightly as he could, strangling them. He killed most victims in his home, his truck, or a secluded area.<ref name="Prothero 2006"/> Most of their bodies were dumped in wooded areas around the Green River, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, and other "dump sites" within South King County.<ref name="MalengOR"/>

There were also two confirmed and another two suspected victims found in the Portland, Oregon, area. The bodies were often left in clusters, sometimes posed, usually nude. He would sometimes return to the victims' bodies and engage in necrophilia with their bodies. Ridgway later explained that he did not find necrophilia more sexually satisfying, but having sex with the deceased reduced his need to obtain a living victim and thus limited his exposure to being caught.<ref name=banality/> Ridgway occasionally contaminated the dump sites with gum, cigarettes, and written materials belonging to others, and he even transported a few victims' remains across state lines into Oregon, to confuse the police.<ref name="MalengOR">Template:Cite web</ref>

1982–1984: First known victims

1983 sketch of the suspected killer

The body of Ridgway's first known victim was found in July 1982. A unique kind of spray paint was found on clothing wrapped around the victim's neck, but the paint was not tested for 20 years. If it had been tested at the time, it would have been easier to link the murder to Ridgway.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> After four more victims were found, the King County Sheriff's Office formed the Green River Task Force to investigate the murders.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="NewsTribune" /> Task force members included Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy in 1984. Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer. He suggested that the killer was revisiting the dump sites to have sex with his victims, which turned out to be accurate, and if police found a fresh grave, they should stake it out and wait for him to come back.<ref name="NewsTribune">Template:Cite web</ref> Also contributing to the investigation was FBI Special Agent John E. Douglas, who developed a profile of the suspect.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ridgway was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He became a suspect in the Green River killings in 1983,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> when 18-year-old Marie Malvar disappeared. Her boyfriend and her pimp later found a truck in front of Ridgway's house which they thought was the same one she had boarded the day she went missing. Ridgway was interviewed in conjunction with that event, and police received several other tips that mentioned him.<ref name=":0" /> In 1984, he passed a polygraph test.<ref name=banality/>

1985–2001: Marriage to Judith Mawson, arrest for murder

Around 1985, Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his third wife in 1988. Mawson claimed in a 2010 television interview that when she moved into his house while they were dating, there was no carpet. Detectives later told her he had probably wrapped a body in the carpet.<ref name="IDDiscovery">Template:Cite episode</ref> In the same interview, she described how he would leave for work early in the morning some days, ostensibly for the overtime pay. Mawson speculated that he must have committed some of the murders while supposedly working these early morning shifts. She claimed that she had not suspected Ridgway's crimes before she was contacted by authorities in 1987, and had not even heard of the Green River Killer before that time because she did not watch the news.<ref name="IDDiscovery" /> Ridgway said that while he was in a relationship with Mawson, his kill rate went down and that he truly loved her.<ref name="IDDiscovery" /> Of his 49 known victims, only three were killed after he married Mawson. Mawson told a local television reporter, "I feel I have saved lives ... by being his wife and making him happy."<ref name="KIRO">Template:Cite news</ref>

In April 1987, police took hair and saliva samples from Ridgway.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The samples collected were later subjected to DNA profiling, providing the evidence for his arrest warrant.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On November 30, 2001, he was at the Kenworth truck factory where he worked as a spray painter when police arrived to arrest him. The four victims named in the original indictment were Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. Three more victims—Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Debra Estes—were added to the indictment after a forensic scientist identified microscopic spray paint spheres as a specific brand and composition of paint used at the Kenworth factory during the time when these victims were killed.<ref name="IDDiscovery" />

Plea bargain, confessions, sentencing

Early in August 2003, Seattle television news reported that Ridgway had been moved from a maximum security cell at King County Jail to an Airway Heights Minimum-Medium Security Level Tank. Other news reports stated that his lawyers, led by Anthony Savage, were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder as part of a plea bargain that would spare him execution in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details. In his statement accompanying his guilty plea, Ridgway explained that he had killed all of his victims inside King County, Washington, and that he had transported and dumped the remains of the two women near Portland to confuse the police.<ref name=MalengOR />

Deputy prosecutor Jeffrey Baird noted in court that the deal contained "the names of 41 victims who would not be the subject of State v. Ridgway if it were not for the plea agreement". King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng explained his decision to make the deal:

Template:Blockquote On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Judge Richard A. Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences without the possibility of parole to be served consecutively.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences. Later he was given another life sentence after the remains of his 49th victim were found.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ridgway led prosecutors to three bodies in 2003. On August 16 of that year, the remains of a 16-year-old girl found near Enumclaw, Washington, 40 feet from State Route 410, were pronounced as belonging to Pammy Annette Avent, who had been believed to be a victim of the Green River Killer. The remains of Marie Malvar and April Buttram were found in September 2003.

On November 23, 2005, the Associated Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of one of the women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors. The skull of another victim, Tracy Winston, who was 19 when she disappeared from Northgate Mall on September 12, 1983, was found on November 20, 2005, by a man hiking in a wooded area near Highway 18 near Issaquah, southeast of Seattle. This was the find that led to Ridgway's 49th life sentence.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2023, remains discovered in 1985 and known as Bones 17 were identified as belonging to 15-year-old Lori Anne Razpotnik, who was last seen by her family in Lewis County, Washington, in November 1982.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ridgway confessed to more confirmed murders than any other American serial killer. Over a period of five months of police and prosecutor interviews, he confessed to 48 murders—42 of which were on the police's list of probable Green River Killer victims.<ref>Template:Cite report</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On February 9, 2004, county prosecutors began to release the videotaped records of Ridgway's confession. In one taped interview, he initially told investigators that he was responsible for the deaths of 65 women.<ref name="Cold Case Files 56">Template:Cite episode</ref> In another taped interview on December 31, 2003, Ridgway claimed to have murdered 71 victims and confessed to having had sex with them before killing them, a detail which he did not reveal until after his sentencing.<ref name="Cold Case Files 56" />

In his confession, he acknowledged that he targeted prostitutes because they were "easy to pick up" and that he "hated most of them."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He confessed that he had sex with his victims' bodies after he murdered them, but claimed he began burying the later victims so that he could resist the urge to commit necrophilia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Incarceration

Ridgway was placed in solitary confinement at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in January 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the USP Florence High, a high-security federal prison east of Cañon City, Colorado. In September 2015, after a public outcry and discussions with Governor Jay Inslee, Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner announced that Ridgway would be transferred back to Washington to be "easily accessible" for open murder investigations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Ridgway was returned by chartered plane to Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla from USP Florence High, on October 24, 2015.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2024, Ridgway was briefly transferred from the Washington State Penitentiary to the King County jail for a few days before being transferred back to WSP. Authorities refused to give any explanation for the transfer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The transport order was unsealed in March 2025, revealing that Ridgway was temporarily transferred to help locate more victim remains.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Victims

Before Ridgway's confession, authorities had attributed 49 murders to the Green River Killer.<ref name ="Task Force List">Template:Cite news</ref> Ridgway confessed to murdering at least 71 victims.<ref name="Cold Case Files 56"/>

Confirmed killings

At the time of Ridgway's December 18, 2003, sentencing, authorities had been able to find at least 48 sets of remains, including victims not originally attributed to the Green River Killer. Ridgway was sentenced for the deaths of each of these 48 victims,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> with a plea agreement that he would "plead guilty to any and all future cases (in King County) where his confession could be corroborated by reliable evidence."<ref name="49th victim">Template:Cite news</ref>

#	Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
1	Wendy Lee Coffield	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
2	Gisele Ann Lovvorn	17	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
3	Debra Lynn Bonner	23	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
4	Marcia Fay Chapman	31	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
5	Cynthia Jean Hinds	17	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
6	Opal Charmaine Mills	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
7	Terry Rene Milligan	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
8	Mary Bridget Meehan	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
9	Debra Lorraine Estes	15	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
10	Linda Jane Rule	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
11	Denise Darcel Bush	23	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
12	Shawnda Leea Summers	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
13	Shirley Marie Sherrill	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
14	Lori Anne Razpotnik	15	Template:Circa Template:Sort<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Template:Sort
15	Rebecca "Becky" Marrero	20	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
16	Colleen Renee Brockman	15	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
17	Sandra Denise Major	20	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
18	Wendy Marie Stephens	14	March 1983Template:Refn	Template:Sort
19	Alma Ann Smith	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
20	Delores LaVerne Williams	17	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
21	Gail Lynn Mathews	23	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
22	Andrea Marion Childers	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
23	Sandra Kay Gabbert	17	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
24	Kimi-Kai Ryks Pitsor	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
25	Mary-Jane Malvar	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
26	Carol Ann Christensen	21	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
27	Martina Theresa Authorlee	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
28	Cheryl Lee Wims	18	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
29	Yvonne Antosh	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
30	Carrie Ann Rois	15	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
31	Constance Elizabeth Naon	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
32	Tammie Charlene Liles	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
33	Kelly Marie Ware	22	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
34	Tina Marie Thompson	21	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
35	April Dawn Buttram	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
36	Debbie May Abernathy	26	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
37	Tracy Ann Winston	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
38	Maureen Sue Feeney	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
39	Mary Sue Bello	25	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
40	Pammy Annette Avent	15	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
41	Delise Louise Plager	22	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
42	Kimberly Nelson	21	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
43	Lisa Lorraine Yates	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
44	Mary Exzetta West	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
45	Cindy Anne Smith	17	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
46	Patricia Michelle Barczak	19	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
47	Roberta Joseph Hayes	21	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
48	Marta Reeves	36	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
49	Patricia Ann Yellowrobe	38	Template:Sort	Template:Sort

Footnotes

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Facial approximation of Jane Doe B-17, who was identified as Razpotnik after DNA testing in 2023

• Before Ridgway's confession, authorities had not attributed to the Green River Killer the deaths of victims Rule, Barczak, Hayes, Reeves, Yellowrobe, and Jane Doe B-20.<ref name ="Task Force List" />
• On December 21, 2010, hikers near the West Valley Highway in Auburn, Washington, found a skull in the vicinity of where Marie Malvar's remains had been found in 2003. The skull was identified as belonging to Marrero, who was last seen leaving the Western Six Motel at South 168th Street and Pacific Highway South on December 3, 1982. The King County Prosecutor confirmed that Ridgway would be formally charged with her murder on February 11, 2011.<ref name="49th victim" /> On February 18, 2011, he entered a guilty plea in the murder of Rebecca Marrero, adding a 49th life sentence to his existing 48. Ridgway confessed to murdering Marrero in his original plea bargain, but due to insufficient evidence, the charges could not be filed. Therefore, there is no change in his current incarceration status.<ref name="Green2011">Template:Cite news</ref>
• The remains of Winston were found, without a skull, in Kent's Cottonwood Grove Park in March 1986. Winston's skull was found in November, 2005 near Tiger Mountain, miles away from the discovery site of the rest of her body. Police assume someone carried it to the location.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Major was not identified until June 2012. A family member asked the King County Sheriff to investigate after seeing a TV movie about Ridgway. DNA confirmed Major's identity.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Wendy Stephens, previously known as Jane Doe B-10, was previously unidentified.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ridgway claimed that she was a white female in her early 20s and possibly had brown hair. Examination of the remains suggested that she was actually between 12 and 18, most likely around 15.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was later confirmed to be 14. Analysis of the victim's skeleton indicated she was probably left-handed, and she had at one point in her life had skull fracture to the left temple that later healed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Jane Doe B-17 was discovered on January 2, 1986; remains that had been found in another area February 18, 1984, were later matched to this victim. In 2003, Ridgway claimed responsibility for her death.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In December 2023, DNA testing at Parabon NanoLabs identified the victim as Lori Anne Razpotnik, who had run away from home in 1982 at age 15.<ref name="Girgis">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Jane Doe B-20 was discovered in August 2003. Because the remains were partial, her face could not be reconstructed and her race could not be determined, but she was estimated to have been between 13 and 24 at the time of her death. She was estimated to have been murdered between 1970 and 1993, but she was believed to have been murdered during the first decade of Ridgway's murder spree.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In January 2024, DNA testing identified the victim as Liles. A separate set of remains from Liles had been found in Oregon in 1985 and identified in 1988 from dental records.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Task force victims list

Ridgway is suspected of—but not charged with—murdering the remaining six victims of the original list attributed to the Green River Killer.<ref name="Task Force List"/>

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
Amina Agisheff	35	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
Kasee Ann Lee	16	Template:Sort<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Undiscovered
Kelly Kay McGinnissTemplate:Refn	18	Template:Sort	Undiscovered
Angela Marie Girdner	16	Template:Sort	Template:Sort
Patricia Osborn	19	Template:Sort<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Undiscovered

Footnotes

• Ridgway denied killing Agisheff who does not fit the profile of any of the victims of the Green River Killer considering her age, and she was not a sex worker or a teenage runaway.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Although he has never been charged with her murder, during police interrogations in 2003, Ridgway did confess to killing Lee. He stated that he strangled Lee in 1982 and left her body near a drive-in theatre off of the Sea-Tac Strip.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Law enforcement officials have been unable to locate Lee's remains at the dumpsite that Ridgway indicated.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Evidence exists to suggest that Ridgway murdered McGinniss. Shortly before her disappearance, McGinniss was questioned by a Port of Seattle police officer while "dating" Ridgway near the SeaTac Strip. Furthermore, during the summer of 2003, Ridgway led authorities to the bodies of several of his victims. One of those bodies, later identified as that of April Buttram, was initially identified by Ridgway as being that of McGinniss. According to Ridgway, he often confused McGinniss with Buttram because of their similar physiques.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Ridgway is a suspect in the death of Girdner whose remains were discovered within a mile of the bodies of known victims Sherrill, Bush, and Liles. Girdner remained unidentified until October 2009.<ref name="autogenerated1">Template:Cite news</ref>

Suspected

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body found
Unidentified black female	Unknown	December 1980	Undiscovered
Kristi Lynn Vorak	13	October 31, 1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Undiscovered
Patricia Ann Leblanc	15	August 12, 1983<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Undiscovered
Rose Marie KurranTemplate:Refn	16	August 26, 1987	August 31, 1987
Cora Christmas McGuirk	22	July 12, 1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Undiscovered

Footnotes

• An unidentified black female, possibly bearing the first name Michelle, was a possible victim of Ridgway. She has never been located or identified.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• McGuirk was the mother of NBA player Martell Webster.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was last seen leaving her three children in the company of her aunt. Her vehicle was later found near Aurora Avenue North. Although her body was never found, Ridgway is thought to be responsible for killing her.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Ridgway was long suspected for the 1987 murder of Kurran, a 16-year-old addict and prostitute,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> but was ruled out as a suspect.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of serial killers in the United States

Further reading

• Keppel, Robert. The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer. 2004, paperback (rev. ed.). 624 pages, Template:ISBN, Template:OCLC. Updated after the arrest and confession of Gary Ridgway.
• Rule, Ann. Green River, Running Red. Pocket, 2005, paperback. 704 pages, Template:ISBN.
• Guillen, Tomas. Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007, paperback. 186 pages.

External links

• A copy of Ridgway's infamous letter to the press (PDF)
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