Gary Ridgway..The Green River Killer

The Next most successful and elusive predator and murderer of women...

Gary Ridgway

Who is Gary Ridgway?

Ridgway was born on February 18th 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah to mother Mary Steinman and father Thomas Ridgway. Gary was raised in McMicken Heights, Washington and had a peculiar childhood overshadowed by a domineering and unsavory relationship with his mother. Gary was a bed-wetter and was believed to be of very low intelligence, with an approximate I.Q. of 82. He had trouble in school with poor academic standing and attempted his first homicide in around 1966 at the age of sixteen years old by luring a six year old boy into the woods and stabbing him.

Motive..

Sixteen years after attempting his first murder, Gary began a campaign of destruction to eliminate the world of as many prostitutes as he possibly could. It's believed he committed his first killing in 1982 but really there is no way to be sure.Ridgway began murdering working girls and dumping their bodies into "The Green River" in Washington State. He admitted to especially choosing prostitutes because he hated them and didn't want to pay them for their services. He also believed that because they were "second class" citizens that he would not be caught and would be able to continue the killings, which he referred to as "his job."

Mods operand of Gary Ridgway was strangulation. His victims ranged in age from 15 to 31 and one victim even had an unborn baby! They were all prostitutes who worked the main strip in Seattle, stretching from South 139th Street to South 272nd Street. The body count began to pile up and the case gained national attention. Ridgway was known as "The Green River Killer" because he liked to dump many of the victims into the river. He later started dumping the victims in special sites he referred to as "clusters."

He enjoyed visiting these dump sites and it was discovered later that he engaged in the morbid practice of necrophilia so he could relive the murder and gloat in his violence and sexual perversion. He often posed the bodies and left weird articles on the bodies, such as fish, and stones, the significance of which were never understood. On November 30, 2001 Ridgway was arrested for murder. During pre-trail on November 5, 2003, Gary Ridgway, avoided the death penalty in Washington state by confessing to the murders of 48 women. He was sentenced to 48 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Ridgway may have actually killed more than 48 but cannot remember the exact number. It is believed that he might have even killed as far north as British Columbia in Canada. He could however still face the death penalty for murders in Oregon and other areas outside King County jursidiction.

What do you think?Gary Ridgway had the largest number of killings in America.He had married twice with Claudia Kraig Barrows (1970-1972-divorced) and Marcia Lorene Winslow (1973-1981-divorced..1 child).He also had a measured IQ of about 82, signifying below average intelligence and he even has a child.Why does he killed women?He has low IQ but he has the beast instinct inside him.Gary Ridgway and Ted Bundy,two different people but has the same goal that is killing women.

"I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight."

Gary Ridgway

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