Portland Adult Entertainment: Remains of teen girl found in Tualatin in 1985 finally identified
by kingofportlandAlong with the remains of Tammie Liles, Girdner’s remains were found in close proximity to two other women Ridgway earlier this decade pleaded guilty to killing. Shirley Shirell and Denise Bush were found about a mile away in Bull Mountain in June of 1985.
Ridgway pleaded guilty to murdering 48 women, most in the Seattle area, and is serving 48 life sentences in Washington. Ridgway testified that he killed Shirell and Bush in Seattle and transferred them to Oregon. Ridgway has denied killing Liles or Girdner, Thompson said. He said police do not know whether Girdner was in the Seattle area prior to her death.
Girdner was a straight-A student until 1983 when her parents believe she “met the wrong people,” Thompson said. He said Girdner took a bus from Portland to school in Beaverton each day, and may have met people on the bus who led her to drugs and prostitution.