In November, 2001 King County Sheriff Dave Reichert announce the arrest of Gary Ridgway after DNA tests link him to three murders. On December 15th 2001 Reichert assemble eleven investigators to work full-time on establishing evidence against Ridgway. December 2001 Gary Ridgway was formally charged with the murders of four women. December 18th 2001
Heitman involves entrapment, we first should further look into the background of this trial and define entrapment. The incident began on June 20,1998, when Gary Heitman, age 53, went to the drive-thru of a Bronco’s restaurant in Nebraska and gave an envelope containing a $100 bill, three condoms, and a letter to a female employee ( referred to as “A.S”)working the window. The letter, although not explicitly stating any sexual intentions, alluded to some alternative motives as he confesses “I come thru just for a glimpse of you” (Heitman p.1) and even suggests she use the money to “buy a sexy dress for [her] lover”. His motives are more apparent once he provides his email in the letter and includes three condoms. A.S was only 14 years old during this confrontation.
Gary Charles Evans Rachael Fucci Johnson and Wales University Gary Charles Evans was born October 7, 1954 in Troy, New York. Gary had one sister, his parents divorced when he was 14. After the divorce, his mother married multiple other times before revealing she was gay. His mother mostly did odd jobs, like garment and retail. There was a period where the factory had no work so she helped out a Jewish family doing dishes and bathrooms.
Carlton Gary’s criminal activities begin as far back as 1969 when he was first arrested and charged with the firebombing of a grocery store in Gainesville. After a short stint in prison Gary was later arrested and charged with burglary, grand theft auto, assault of an officer, drug possession, possession with intent to sell, armed robbery. In May of 1970, Marion Brewer an elderly Caucasian female was attacked and robbed in her hotel room in Albany, New York. Eighty-five year old Nellie Farmer was robbed and strangled to death in her nearby apartment two months following the Brewer case, after a third elderly Caucasian woman was assaulted Carlton Gary arrested as it was discovered that a fingerprint left at the crime scene of Nellie Farmer was
Known as the Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway is one of the United States’ most infamous criminals. Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949; he is currently 67 years old. He attended school in King County, Washington, where he was held back 2 grades. After he graduated high school at Tyee High, he briefly worked at Kenworth trucking and later enrolled in the military in 1969. Ridgway married his first wife that he had dated for several years during his military service.
Prison is Violent for The Young Offenders Gary Scott a 17 year old man who was arrested at young age of 15 for a second degree murder and was served for 14 and a half years at a state prison in San Quentin California. In the article “Prison is Too Violent for Young Offenders” by Gary Scott he expresses that “Adult prison is not the appropriate level for young offenders”(P.2) Gary Scott writes in the article “Prison Is Too Violent for Young Offenders” that the incarceration of the young prisoners has an extremely destructive effect in the way that the young prisoners are developing negative behaviors due to the bad ideas the adult prisoners are showing them.
However, he confessed to killing between seventy and eighty women, but only forty-eight were able to be confirmed (Paulson). Suspicions of up to ninety women are talked about to this day (“Gary Ridgway’s”). Ridgway claims that he killed most women the first time they met and that he did not know most of his victims' names
His first kill victim was stabbed and was hidden in the house crawl space. Since his first known victim, Gacy goes on to kill a total of 33 young men. He would rape torture and then strangle his victims and would throw bury them in his crawl space. The typical victims he had were young boys and men that were in need of a job, home, or money. He had also started a new “method” in which he would torture rape and then drop them at a nearby park.
Not too close to being a suspect, but not too far from revisiting his victims' decaying bodies. Ridgway stated in a court hearing, “I liked to drive by the ‘clusters’ around the county and think about the women I placed there.” (Shenfeld, 2018) Gary loved to strangle his victims. As previously stated, he considered it his “career”.
The man everyone trusted and admired was living a double life, he was married and divorced having step children along with having children of his own, he participated in the charitable and political activities that went on in his town while also engaging in the vicious and brutal killings. He ended up being convicted of sexual assault in 1968 of two teenage boys. He was condemned to ten years in prison but was a “model” prisoner and was released on parole in 1970. He ended up getting arrested the following year when another teen boy accused him of sexual assault. When the young man did not show up for his trial, the charges on Gacy ended up being dropped.
John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17th 1942 in Chicago Illinois. He was the son of Danish/Polish parents. It had a very rough early life, because his father was an alcoholic who was very abusive to not only him and his siblings but also to his mother. At a young age Gacy also stated to have thoughts and conflict on his sexuality. He also had a lot of trouble in school, he was not able to go outside and play with the other children because of his congenital heart condition and he went through a major turmoil due to his confused thoughts on his sexuality.
The persistent psychological abuse wore Gacy out; as a result, he would strive to gain his father’s approval. In August 1967, Gacy executed his first known sexual assault towards a teenage boy. Throughout the next few months, he would pay young men up to fifty dollars to carry out homosexual acts, for the purpose of
Later, he wet the bed and engaged in animal torture, two of the three indicators of the MacDonald Triad. At the age of 17, he was jailed for molesting two of his younger cousins. Many general profiles of serial killers have traits similar to the ones seen in David Carpenter’s life with bed-wetting, abused as a child, and sexual frustrations
Sexuality played a huge part in why Gacy killed 33 young men and boys. Gacy married two women and was engaged on two different occasions In an interview Gacy said that he was married twice, engaged two other times,
In the Stephen King short story, The Man in The Black Suit, the narrator Gary recounts an experience from his childhood that scared him permanently. When he was nine, Gary was tormented and stalked though the woods by the devil, who manifested himself after Gary wandered into the woods. During their interaction, the Devil lies to Gary and says that his mother just died at home. The Devil claimed that Gary’s mother was killed in a similar way that his brother, Dan, was also killed not too long ago, as she was apparently stung by a bee and is dead in his kitchen. Gary knows the Devil is a liar but finds it difficult to resist believing him.
