Gary Ridgway

1949, Gary Leon Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was raised in SeaTac, Washington. His homelife as a boy was very troubled. More than once did he witness brutal arguments between his parents. He had trouble wetting the bed, and when his mom would find it, she would belittle him in front of his whole family. He contracted anger and sexual attraction toward her. When Ridgway was 16, he led a boy into the woods and stabbed him in the liver. The boy survived, but someone witnessed Gary as he

Considered the most prolific serial killer in United States history, The Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, committed between 75 and 80 murders along Route 99 in Washington state. Gary Ridgway targeted prostitutes and, after having sex with them, would strangle them and dump their body in the woods surrounding the Green River. Ridgway started killing in 1982 and, despite being a suspect, eluded the police, even passing a polygraph test, until advanced DNA evidence linked him to three of the murders

CRMJ329: Criminal Profiling Gary Leon Ridgway By: Donna Jamison Born in Salt Lake City Utah in the year 1949, Gary Leon Ridgway was the middle child of three sons. Ridgway was raised in a chaotic and underprivileged household with a domineering mother and a father who reportedly despised prostitutes (Prothero, 2006). Ridgway wet the bed until his late teens. His mother reportedly bathed him until he was well into his teenage years, paying special attention to his genitals (Prothero, and Smith

Ridgway experienced a very lonely childhood; he did not have many friends and was said to possibly suffer from anti-social behaviour, supported by Minzi and Shields (2007) stating, “his attitude, life history, and crimes all point to antisocial personality disorder” (p.87). During his teen years, Ridgway began to stalk women who previously rejected him, which is a large indicator of an issue occurring in Ridgway’s life. It is abnormal for teenage boys to stalk the women who had rejected them; these

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. Gary Ridgway was a truck painter and he had a special place where he would go and dump his victims; in and around the green river. The first body was discovered in the green river by passing pedestrians in spring of 1982 it was the body of young 16 year old

Ethical relativism is the acceptance of differing views as all correct because there is no right answer. Ethical relativism eliminates all judgement because there is arguably no final truth, no right or wrong. As Doug Powell, author of Holman QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics, puts it ethical relativism is the idea that “What’s true for you is true for you, and what’s true for me is true for me” (79). Simplistically, this ideology follows the conviction that we are unable to pass judgement

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

Gary Ridgway fits the perfect profile of a common serial murder offender. Gary Ridgeway is referred to as the green river killer was born on February 18, 1949, in Utah. Many people viewed him as an ordinary person that worked as a truck painter for 30 years and was married three different times. Little did anyone know that since 1982 he began his killing spree of women’s until 2001 when he was captured. The “Green river killer” murdered about 75-80 young women’s that were runaway or prostitutes

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

Gary Ridgway was born in salt lake city, Utah as the second of three sons to his parents Mary and Thomas Ridgway. He grew up in an abusive household with a domineering mother who would bully him and belittle him for wetting the bed into his teenage years, and a father who would tell him stories about necrophiliac acts his co workers would commit at his job as a mortician. His school life wasn't that great either. He had an IQ of 82 which caused him to repeat two grades. No one really remembered him