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Gary Ridgway Trial

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In Salt Lake City, Utah, on Feb. 18, 1949, Ridgway was born the second of three brothers. The first brother being born in 1948 and the second 1951. Their parents, Thomas Newton and Mary Rita Ridgway, lived close by a local high school in a rented room. In 1960,the family moved into a five bed and two bath one level home in what is now the City of SeaTac. The address and home still stands on 4404 S. 175th Street, in the neighbourhood called McMicken Heights. Growing up, Gary had a issue with wetting the bed, causing his mother to wash him and humiliate him in front of his father and brothers. This sparked a hatred towards her from Gary, but also arousal. Ridgway scored an I.Q. of 82, lower than the average of 100. His academic performance was …show more content…

While under arrest, the police interrogated him and got a chilling response. He said he did the police a favor by killing the prostitutes they couldn't catch. When 2003 came around, he was charged with the aggravated first-degree murder of Wendy Coffield, Debra Estes, and Debra Bonner. By the time his trial came, he racked up forty-nine charges of murder and confessed of twenty-three more. To avoid a death penalty, he agreed to give the detectives the location of the victims. The information he provided took away the death penalty, but it charged him forty-nine years to life. Even after the trial, he admitted to killing about eighty women, thirty-eight more than originally found. "I want to prove them wrong...I want to prove there's 80 bodies out there, or 85 or whatever"(Ridgway). The total of body counts are still unknown. Ridgway admitted to killing because he didn't want to pay the prostitute and he considered it a career. He also claimed choking his victims was a reward to him. In the fall of 2002, Ridgway filed for divorce against his third wife. One man, who’s daughter was murder by Ridgway, stood up during his trial and told Ridgway he forgave him sending Ridgeway into tears. He serves forty-eight consecutive sentence in Washington State Penitentiary without the possibility of parole. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to murdering Becky Marrero making it his 49th charge. After nineteen years, the Green River killer was in constudy and Seattle was at

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