Bumping. Amina was murdered 36 years ago and the murderer is still at large. Her sons are still looking for an answer.
I wonder if in the crime scene they only found bones or did they found also some clothes?
I did a little digging and I found one blog-type internet source (ie not necessarily reliable) that claimed that she would have been Ridgways only known victim that was fully clothed.
It is all a little vague about how certain the investigators were about the gun shot. From what I could tell, some lead fragments were found near the body but usually gunshots result in noticeable damage to the skeleton if the bullet hits a bone with enough force to fragmentize. (Anybody know anything about this?)
An abdomen shot with a low power load might hit an artery or a vital organ and and kill through shock or loss of blood without hitting a bone or passing through the back muscle tissue but you would expect an intact bullet.
Most up close and person gunshot homicides are to the head and result in obvious penetration of the skull. A shot to the torso would be expected to put a noticeable hole to the clothing.
Action of animals may have obscured any damage however.
It would be interesting to know what determination of the autopsy was.
Aminias remains were discovered by a forestry work crew near the junction of Hwy 18 and I 90. Two other known Ridgway victims (Thompson and Feeney) were later found by the task force nearby and the three were considered a cluster.
Aminia disappeared the day before the first admitted victim was murdered and her body was found close enough to two bodies of known victims to be considered a cluster (I cant find the actual distance). I dont like coincidences and these are two strong coincidences. Otherwise, however, there isnt much to link them. Ridgway was a working class guy who lived in the blue collar areas around Kent. Aminia was a cultured college graduate who was last seen and lived in the upscale, hip area north of downtown, quite a ways from where Ridgway lived.
Ridgway was apparently quite adamant that he did not kill Amina. There were other possible victims that he denied but, if he really did kill them, he had obvious reasons to deny them. (Either they occurred out of either Pierce or King County or after he married his last wife) These situations did not apply to Aminia. In addition Ridgway did admit to other victims he had not been linked to. Either he didnt do it or there was some reason he wont own up to it.
If Aminia was really his first victim, there was something very different about her death, something Ridgway is perhaps ashamed of.
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