Serial Killer, Gary Ridgway.
Biographical information
Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949 and he is currently still alive.
He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He grew up next to Seattle’s Pacific Highway, in a poor neighborhood near SeaTac Airport. It was said that his mother was domineering. She was reportedly abusive towards him, both physically and verbally. He was a poor student with a low IQ. After high school he joined the military and went to Vietnam in 1967.
Description of criminal activity
As a teenager (at age 16), Ridgway stabbed a six year old boy, however, the boy did survive. There reports of Ridgway suffocating a cat and also questions of arson early. Ridgway was arrested with a prostitution charge in 1982. According …show more content…
He took a polygraph test in 1984 and passed it and was not considered a prime suspect. However, investigators had collected DNA evidence and compared them to strands of Ridgway’s hair that they had in police custody. The hair samples were a match. That evidence linked him to the murder of four women. He was arrested on November 30, 2001 outside of his work in Reston, Washington. Gary Ridgway pled guilty to 48 counts of murder in exchange for a life sentence instead of the death penalty, avoiding a full trial. His statement read, “I killed the forty-eight women listed in the State’s second amended information. In most cases, when I murdered these women, I did not know there names. Most of the time, I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight” (Statement of Defendant on Plea of Guilty, …show more content…
Some of the key factors that support my thinking in diagnosing Ridgway are; “strange inner experiences that differ greatly from the expectations of one’s culture, that lead to significant impairment in personal, occupational, or social functioning, and that form a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others” (Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2014).
He didn’t receive any treatment for any disorders. Ridgway was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole or release.
The end of the story
Gary Ridgway is currently serving his time at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. He was moved there on October 24, 2015 for the convenience of the open murder investigations that are still going on.
Interesting Facts
Gary Ridgway has dyslexia, which showed in his younger years.
He has married three times and was divorced three times.
During his second marriage he became very religious, from reading the bible at work and at home aloud, even going door-to-door preaching
Biographical information
Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949 and he is currently still alive.
He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He grew up next to Seattle’s Pacific Highway, in a poor neighborhood near SeaTac Airport. It was said that his mother was domineering. She was reportedly abusive towards him, both physically and verbally. He was a poor student with a low IQ. After high school he joined the military and went to Vietnam in 1967.
Description of criminal activity
As a teenager (at age 16), Ridgway stabbed a six year old boy, however, the boy did survive. There reports of Ridgway suffocating a cat and also questions of arson early. Ridgway was arrested with a prostitution charge in 1982. According …show more content…
He took a polygraph test in 1984 and passed it and was not considered a prime suspect. However, investigators had collected DNA evidence and compared them to strands of Ridgway’s hair that they had in police custody. The hair samples were a match. That evidence linked him to the murder of four women. He was arrested on November 30, 2001 outside of his work in Reston, Washington. Gary Ridgway pled guilty to 48 counts of murder in exchange for a life sentence instead of the death penalty, avoiding a full trial. His statement read, “I killed the forty-eight women listed in the State’s second amended information. In most cases, when I murdered these women, I did not know there names. Most of the time, I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight” (Statement of Defendant on Plea of Guilty, …show more content…
Some of the key factors that support my thinking in diagnosing Ridgway are; “strange inner experiences that differ greatly from the expectations of one’s culture, that lead to significant impairment in personal, occupational, or social functioning, and that form a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others” (Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2014).
He didn’t receive any treatment for any disorders. Ridgway was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole or release.
The end of the story
Gary Ridgway is currently serving his time at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. He was moved there on October 24, 2015 for the convenience of the open murder investigations that are still going on.
Interesting Facts
Gary Ridgway has dyslexia, which showed in his younger years.
He has married three times and was divorced three times.
During his second marriage he became very religious, from reading the bible at work and at home aloud, even going door-to-door preaching