Research Paper On Gary Ridgway

Gary Ridgway, aka the “Green River Killer” was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the second son of Mary and Thomas Ridgway and has two brothers, Thomas Jr, and Gregory Ridgway. As a young boy, Gary would witness violent arguments between his parents. When Gary was growing up, he had a bed-wetting problem and his mother would wash his genitals after every time. His problem didn't end until he was thirteen years old. Because of those episodes between him and his mother, he had feelings of anger and sexual attraction toward her and fantasized about killing her. In 1965, when Gary was 16 years old, there was a kindergartener who had been dressed up as a cowboy, playing near his home. Gary tricked him into believing they

Some of the members included Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who also would come in and interview Ted Bundy while he was in jail. Bundy gave plenty of insight of the minds of serial killers and suggested that Gary was most likey revisiting the dump sites to have sex with his victims, which turned out to be true later on. Gary was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution so that made him a key suspect in the Green River killings. On November 30, 2001, Gary was at work where the police came and arrested him. He was arrested on suspicion of murdering four women nearly 20 years earlier. At first he was just a potential suspect until DNA evidence linked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the police. The four victims named in the original indictment were Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. Other victims like Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Debra Estes were added to the list after a forensic scientist identified microscopic spray paint spheres as a specific brand and composition of paint used at the Kenworth factory during the specific time frame when these victims were killed. Gary is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. He targeted sex workers because he thought they might not be reported missing and because he “hated” most of them. In court statements, he later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count and that he just wanted to kill as many prostitues as possible. Authorities had been able to find at least 48 sets of remains. In 2003 Gary accepted a plea deal in which he was sentenced to 48 life sentences without parole and he also agreed to reveal the location of undiscovered bodies. Even though Gary had confessed to murdering more than eighty women, there were only 48 that were actually discovered. Gary