Analysis Of The Green River Killer By Ridgway

way had glasses and a mustache and for the most part he looked normal. His nickname was The Green River Killer because some of the bodies of his killing were fished out of the Green River in King County, Washington. The killings took place from the 1982 to 2001 (Newton, 2000, p.223). It is known that Ridgway had sexual intercourse with the prostitutes before he killed them. After a while, he would also have sex with them after they were dead. Another interesting fact is that sometimes, after Ridgway had sex with the already dead victims, he would put rocks in their vaginas (Philbin, 2011, p.199). Ridgway may have easily killed up to 90 women, but it will never be known because in videos, he says that he is not completely sure exactly how many

This can cause a lot of psychological damage knowing that this isn’t common and is highly frown upon in society to have sexual feelings towards someone in your family especially towards your mother. As a teenager he tried to commit murder, there was a 6 year old boy playing outside and he lured him into some bushes where no one could see him and without a cause he stabbed the boy in the stomach and wiped the blood of the blade of the knife on the little boys shirt. (Montaldo 2011) This must have been a trial run and an early indicator that this boy was disturbed and in need of some immediate help. Especially since he had no probable cause to stab the little boy knowing that he is vulnerable and can’t fight back. Ridgway’s childhood is far from ordinary he had a lot of psychological damage and if only his parents would have known they could have brought him to a psychiatrist to try and prevent what we all now him now as the green river killer.

When you first think of a serial killer or you think of a psychopath you realize that they both have something in common even though they have different words to describe similar characteristics of a “monster”. John Wayne Gacy had an abusive childhood and struggled with his sexuality at a very young age, which these factors helped him become the person he did.

This case is an example of the feminist theory and of female oppression. Robert could have believed that since he was a male he was the more dominant sex and this could have led him to express his superiority towards women through the murders. This is an example of radical feminism. Radical feminism looks at the exploitation of women and their role in the patriarchy. Marxists feminism theory focuses on the unfair divide between men and women and how each are expected to have certain roles in society. Women are most likely expected to be stay at home moms where men are expected to have a higher income and have more serious jobs. Robert only attacked women that were sex workers or drug addicts. There must be a reason for this pattern and it could be that he was attacking women that were in a lower class then he was. It was just another way of making himself feel more powerful then the women. Roberts’s anger towards women could be because of his relationship with his mother when he was a child. She wasn’t always the most affectionate and supportive mother and the anger he felt towards his mother could be the reason he feels anger and aggression towards women. If he kept the feelings he had towards his mother locked up inside him that could be what brought him to the point of murdering all of these women. The feminism theory can shed some light on why Robert Pickton decided to murder these

At the age of nine, John recalls being sexually molested on several occasion by a friend of his father; however he never disclosed this information until reaching adulthood. Signs of homosexuality appeared throughout John Wayne Gacy’s childhood, including the incidence of him being caught with his mother underwear, and continued throughout his adulthood, until finally disclosing his preference for men to his second wife, Carole. Upon his first arrest on charges of sodomy, John received a psychiatric evaluation which concluded that he, in fact, suffered from antisocial personality disorder. Subsequently, after sentenced to death for 12 of 33 known murders, Gacy received a secondary psychiatric evaluation which determined that John was a paranoid schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder. In conclusion, the psychological, biological and genetic factors of John Wayne Gacy are quite alarming. His ability to charm and manipulate many of those around him and his lack of remorse or the slightest bit of guilt for the gruesome crimes he committed, even in his last moments of life, made John Wayne Gacy one of the most dangerous sociopaths of our time (Haggerty,

Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute who shot to death at least seven middle-aged men that she encountered along northern and central Florida highways. Between 1989 and 1990, she murdered men that solicited her for sexual favors. Aileen Wuornos is listed as one of the country’s rare female serial killers that was put to death by lethal injection. A big question for psychologist and investigators was, “Is Aileen Wuornos a victim of a failed upbringing or is she truly a monster” (Seal, 2008)? When analyzing this case, it is clear that she was driven by her environment and psychological factors that started in her childhood.

This paper is about one of the first serial killers in America by the name of Herman Webster Mudgett aka H.H. Holmes. This paper is about his childhood all the way until his adult years, if he had any education and if he did what was it, and it’s also going to describe the way he started killing. The paper is also about his methods of killing, how he got caught for his murders, what happened in trial, and if he got sentenced to time in prison or if he got sentence to death.

Gerald Armond Gallego and Charlene Adelle Gallego were the first known husband and wife serial killers in the United States. Between the years of 1978 to 1980 in the city of Sacramento, California, the Gallegos killed ten young girls who were mostly teens - the youngest being thirteen years old. The Gallego couple would keep their victims as sex slaves before murdering them (Macleod, 2014). Certain models have attempted to explain the pathways that lead to dangerous offending, and the Knight and Sims-Knight Path Model suggests three personality traits that can indicate early signs of violent behavior. Battered Wife Syndrome is also used to explain women’s roles in criminal duos, and Gerald and Charlene are no exception to either of these models.

Psychotic serial killers can also be triggered by their relationships with family members and loss of close relatives, such as in the case of Ed Gein (Morrison 51). Ed Gein was also a Schizophrenic, who began digging up graves and most notably skinning his victims to make suits consisting of women’s breasts and genitals (Morrison 52). People hypothesized that Gein wore these suits made from his female victims because he wanted a sex change (Brogaard). This is incorrect because in an interview with Morrison, Gein made it clear that they were wrong and they were only assumptions (quote and page). These criminal actions were triggered after the loss of his brother, father, and most importantly, his over-bearing mother (Morrison 51). The death of his family left Gein alone, and his psychosis disabled his ability to properly mourn and cope with the deaths. In order to cope with the death of his mother, Gein

Gary Ridgway grew up like any other ordinary suburban kid. He had a problem of wetting the bed which his mother would make fun of him and embarrass him in front of family and friends. As a young teen, he was always getting into trouble such as stabbing a six year-old boy in the ribs when he was a young teen. In high school Gary continued to go down hill and get bad grades. Gary graduated high school and joined the Navy. While he was in Vietnam, he discovered prostitutes and ended up getting sexually transmitted diseases. Soon after being home from Vietnam, Gary was killing and raping prostitutes on the streets of Seattle, Washington. Gary would go on to murder about 71 young women who he targeted because they were either prostitutes or runaways.

In 2015, he was transferred to the USB Florence. This was a federal prison in Colorado.

Most of his victims were black prostitutes or drug addicts. He is believed to prey on this specific type of woman, because he wanted to seek vengeance against a female figure who wronged him in the past. To do so, this meant that he hurt, raped, photographed (sometimes unconscious or while raping), strangled, and shoot at a close range (many times) victims who resemble her in some way. His first known victim, Debra Jackson, was murdered August 10, 1985. Jackson was found shot three

Gary Ridgeway, A.K.A, the Green River Killer, was one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S history. Over the course of two years in the 1980s nearly 50 lives were taken in the Seattle and Tacoma areas of Washington. This case was given this name because of the location of all of the bodies. Most of the bodies were dumped either in or around the Green River located in Washington. Upon discovery of these bodies, the king county sheriff department formed a task force to attempt to solve these murders. One of the interesting things the task force did was interview Ted Bundy to gain insight as to what the killer may be planning next. In 1982 and again in 2001, Gary Ridgeway, was arrested on charges that related to prostitution. This brought

Through 1980 and 1990, Ridgway was to have killed at the least 71 people. In an interview he said he killed so many that the lost count. Most of his victims were runaways or prostitutes whom he had picked up and strangled along Pacific Highway South. A majority of the murders took place in 1982-1984. A lot of the bodies were dumped along the Green River, in the wooded area, hence the name”Green River Killer.” He would always keep up with where he threw the bodies, because he would later return and have intercourse with their corpse. Sometimes he would leave the bodies in a posed, nude position. Out of all of the women Gary killed, only 4 are unidentified. Most of his bodies were left in Washington, but often to throw off the police, he would cross over into Oregon and leave a few there. He would contaminate the crime scenes by leaving gum and written material belonging to others. His murders would start by just driving along and picking up a woman, most of the time a prostitute. To make them feel more comfortable with him, he would show them a picture of his son that he carried in his wallet. He would lure them in, get them to have sex with him and then he would murder them. He would always strangle them. Never would he use anything but his hands. You could tell where the girls would struggle,because he would have bruises and claw marks on his arms. After

The author mentions the ?primitive stage of emotional development? in which the person would be retaining that would also explain the bed-wetting as one of the characteristics. Pyromania is another clear sign when in conjunction with the triad. Fire is something that can be controlled by a man and twisted into an idea of power. Fire for these individuals brings power and excitement. Henry Lee Lucas, who murdered over 450 people, burned down a house near his own at the age of six. Pyromania and animal torture/mutilation is a manifestation of the need for power that serial killers posses and never progress past in their mental age. The triad, according to The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, hold evident for nearly 60% of serial killers. These characteristics may later develop into sexual sadism, necrophilia, or other similarly disturbing social disorders.