Research Paper On Gary Ridgway

Gary Ridgway was an American serial killer who was known at the Green River Killer. He was convicted of 48 separate murders, but convinced to twice that amount of murders. He is the most prolific American serial killer in history according to confirmed murders. What would drive a man to do such a thing? Is it something to do with his minds? Or maybe even that he was just straight up malicious. How was he able to commit these acts of murder for such a long time? What was the source to this insanity?

Most of Ridgway’s victims were mainly female, most of whom were female prostitutes and other women in vulnerable situations including underage runaways. He generally would just strangle his victims to death by hand and then dump their bodies in forests or just very overgrown areas around King County in Washington. He would come back to the deceased bodies to actually have sexual intercourse with their bodies. Ridgway didn’t just have sexual intercourse with female prostitutes when he started to kill them, he had sex with them before in Vietnam. Ridgway was sent to Vietnam when he was in the Navy and saw a lot of combat, so that may have

Ridgway was the second child out of three in his family making him the middle child. He took an IQ test and scored an 84 which is below the average human’s intelligence. He had trouble sleeping and usually wetted his bed until the age of 15. At the age of 14, his mother would constantly have to bathe him and he often was aroused a lot when she bathed him. Ridgway often would even think about sexual desires towards his mother and even violent tendacies towards her. At 16, he stabbed a six-year-old boy, who survived the attack. He had led the boy into the woods and then stabbed him through the ribs into his liver.[5] According to the victim and Ridgway himself, Ridgway walked away laughing and saying, "I always wondered what it would be like to kill