Gary Ridgway Background

He never made it college. He saw a dream and college just wasn’t part of it.He worked many

When Gary was young he lived with a couple of different people he lived with his grandmother first then he went to live with his mother but he couldn 't take the fighting any more. So he ran away, at the age of 14. He ended up worked at a sugar beet farm. When he come back home he decided to keep going to high school, graduating in 1957. After high school he ended up joined the army but he was honorably discharged only after 3 years. He then had a bunch of odd jobs like working construct and was a ranch hand for a while. Gary Paulsen put some of his own life experiences into the series Hatchet, when he was young he would go make his own meals and hunt. He even made his own clothing and shelter.

died days before he was born. When he was young Jackson experienced no formal education

Choosing schools over the streets is a big part of his innocence. It is probably what led him to the success and fortune. In the book, he

John Wayne Gacy was born Chicago, Illinois on March 17, 1942. He is the middle child of the three, his older sister Joanne and his younger sister Karen. As a child he was known as a quiet boy who worked as a newspaper boy, bagged groceries, and did boy scout activities. He seem to be a normal boy, well-liked by his teachers, co-workers, and friends. However, his relationship with his father was very violent. His father would frequently beat him, Gacy’s friends, who would witness the beating, say that his father would hit Gacy for no reason. His father was an alcoholic with a violent temper, and was homophobic. At the age of eleven, he suffered a blow to the head from the swings. This caused to have frequent blackouts for five years. Gacy’s blackouts stopped once the doctors found a clot in his brain.

He was morally blind. He couldn’t face up to the wrong things that he did.

Gary was born at Minot. North Dakota on 1953, and his age right now is 63 years old. Also he has ancestors from Russian, his paternal grandfather was from Denmark and his grandmother Norwegion. On his maternal side, his grandparents William and Vera Bostow (Russia). Johnson have sibling, and he is the older of three. His sister, Lori who become a specialist teacher and his brother, Scott who is a cardiothoracle surgeon at the university of Texas of San Antonio. Also he had two children’s, one is Leah 32 years old daughter and his son Erick with 29 years old.

John Wayne Gacy was born March 17th, 1942, in Chicago. He was born into a middle waged working class family. He quickly began having issues in the home. His father was an alcoholic and would frequently beat him, but physical abuse was not the worst of it. He had a loving mother and an older and younger sister. Since he could not become close with his father no matter his efforts, he became close with his mother and sisters. His dad took note of that and began adding physical and verbal abuse to his parenting methods by comparing him to his sisters, and speaking to him as if he was a girl. This spurred an identity crisis, and undoubtedly had a large role in Gacy’s later years. Gacy was beaten all throughout his childhood. His father would commonly

When he turned 16 he got the opportunity to attend The University of Harvard. He studied at the university

He struggled a lot with his reading skills because of his poor eye sight and difficulty in seeing.

Gary soto was born on April 12,1952 was raised in Fresno California. When he was a kid he worked in the fields of San Joaquin Valley. Gary Soto father died when he was only Five year old. Soto says that he had no one to motivate him as a child so his work ethic wasn't good in school. Until he found Poetry in high school.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, on Feb. 18, 1949, Ridgway was born the second of three brothers. The first brother being born in 1948 and the second 1951. Their parents, Thomas Newton and Mary Rita Ridgway, lived in a rented room close to a local high school. In 1960,the family moved into a five bedroom, two bathroom, one level home in what is now called the City of SeaTac. The home still stands at 4404 S. 175th Street, in the neighborhood called McMicken Heights. Growing up, Gary had an issue with wetting the bed. This caused his mother to wash him and humiliate him in front of his father and brothers. It also sparked a hatred towards her from Gary, but also arousal. Ridgway scored an I.Q. of 82, lower than the average of 100. His academic performance was so low he had to repeat a school year to obtain the grades needed to pass. He was a troubled teen. At the age of sixteen, he stabbed a six-year-old boy in the liver. Thankfully, the boy survived the attack. According to the victim and Ridgway, he laughed as he walked away saying, “I always wondered what it would be like to kill someone” (Ridgway).

to get his shot at the office, but it never happened and he failed every

Bonnie entered into marriage during the early stages of young adulthood. Her husband, rather than being drafted into the military, joined the Air Force and became a pilot. After training, he was deployed to Thailand where he flew during the Vietnam War. Spouses were not allowed on this deployment,

He work throughout his young years and became very wise. When he was 16 he Enrolled in king’s college.