Gary Ridgway Research Paper

Gary Ridgway was born on February 18th 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born to his mother Mary Steinman and father Thomas Ridgway. Gary was raised in McMicken Heights, Washington and had an abnormal childhood overshadowed by a bad and unpleasant relationship with his mother.
Gary was a bed-wetter and was believed to be very unintelligent with a very low IQ. He had trouble in school with poor grades. Gary first attempted homicide in around 1966 at the age of sixteen years old by luring a six year old boy into the woods and stabbing him.
The victim survived and Ridgway began developing a serious obsession with porn, which is common in almost all serial killers profiles. He was described by others as strange but friendly man.
Sixteen years after attemptin his first murder, Gary began a rampage of destruction to get rid of as many prostitutes as he possibly could. It's believed he committed his first killing in 1982 but really there is no way to be sure.
He admitted to choosing prostitutes because he hated them and didn't want to pay them for their services. He believed that because they were below others who actually worked for a livin. He thought he would not be caught and would be able to continue the killings, which he thought of as his job.
The body count continued to add up and the case was news casted nationally. Ridgway was known as The Green River Killer cause he liked to dump many of the victims into the river. Later on he started dumping the victims in special places he called