Ridgeway Case Study

fascinated with necrophilia while listening to his father’s stories about working at the mortuary, he loved the idea of having sex with a dead female. “Having sex with someone who is dead because you wouldn’t get caught no feelings. She wouldn’t feel it.” (Reichert, 2004, p274) stated by Gary’s father. After Gary graduated high school he proceeded to go into Vietnam. Right before leaving he married his steady Girlfriend named Claudia Kraig (pg 1 montaldo) although this did not stop him from spending majority of his time while away in the military with prostitutes. Gary contracted ghonerea and then proceeded to learn that his wife Claudia had been having an affair while he was away ultimately ending the marriage. The ghonerea started his hatred toward prostitutes leading to his obsession later on with killing them. Gary proceeded on in the military but when he was out he married his second wife Marcia Winslow, Gary wanted to have sex with her outside in strange places pushing Marcia outside of her comfort zones multiple times but the one …show more content…
Well there was a physiological profile done of ridgeway when he was caught and convicted, he fit the “profile” of a serial killer perfectly He held an average job, he was middle aged, struggled with anger, Caucasian, troubled past with women, seemed to live a sad love deprived life, ridgeway seemed normal. Normal is something all serial killers want, any criminals in fact. They want to blend into the crowd that is who Gary was. He blended when he was younger between his brothers and his troubled school days. This was a lot of Gary’s problem he was never anything, Gary never excelled at anything except killing. Killing was his only passion; he took it to the next level. By being the serial killer with the most killed and convicted of killing the most women. (Dani W psychology & Law pg 1) When Gary got caught the authorities dealt with Gary to cut loose of one life sentence for the mind behind