Research Paper On Gary Ridgway

Gary Ridgway is a serial killer born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mary and Thomas Ridgway on February 18, 1949. Educationally, “Ridgway struggled academically and was tested with an I.Q. of 82, signifying low intelligence, and had to repeat a year twice,” (Childhood & Early Life). “Classmates described him as congenial and well liked among the student body,” (Childhood & Early Life).

“Gary had a somewhat troubled childhood growing up in Seattle, as he was often involving in violent arguments with his parents and specifically his mother. Ridgway had a habit of bedwetting into his early teens, which earned him further belittlement and embarrassment from his mother,” (Childhood & Early Life). Ridgway also had sexual feelings and strong feelings

“He has confessed to nearly double that number and is assumed to have murdered 90+[people],” (Number of Confirmed/Assumed Deaths). These victims were killed between the 1980s and the 1990s. “Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington,” (Roberts, 2017). Also, “a majority of the murders occurred between 1982 to 1984,” (Roberts, 2017). Ridgway chose the kind of person he wanted to kill. “[His] victims were believed to be [convenient] prostitutes or runaways picked up along Pacific Highway South,” (Roberts, 2017). Gary Ridgway would usually pick up these victims along the South Pacific Highway in Seattle, Washington. He would often show the victim a picture of his son to gain their trust. Gary would have sex with them but would always insist on making his payment after they were finished (Roberts 2017). “After sex, he had strangled the women, then dumped most of their bodies in wooded areas around the Green River,” (Roberts 2017). He would also dumped some of the bodies in public areas where he had sex with Marcia Winslow. Ridgway would also pose the victim's’ body and come back to have

“He was questioned in relation to the Green River killings — and in 1984, he actually passed a polygraph test,” (Roberts, 2017). Ridgway’s murders “was caught in 2001 when a DNA test revealed a match [to him],” (Gary Ridgway). In December 2001, Ridgway faced four initial murder charges. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to a total of 48 murders. “Ridgway made a deal with investigators to revealed where he'd hidden the bodies of several of the young women who'd never been found while also agreeing to plead guilty to any future cases where his confession could be substantiated by evidence,” (Gary Ridgway). “In 2011, Ridgway pleaded guilty to killing [Rebecca Marrero or] Becky, his 49th victim,” (Roberts,