Ramroop, Kevin (Part 3)
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Gary Leon Ridgway is one of the America’s most prolific serial killers known as the Green River Killer. Gary Ridgway went on to plead guilty to killing 49 women throughout the 1980s and 1990s and he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. During interrogation after his arrest, Ridgway admitted to killing closer to 80 women over two decades, though many of these remain unconfirmed. Ridgway is an extreme incarnation of a brutal misogynist, considered killing female prostitutes a "career." He felt proud of what he did, and thought he was damn good at it. “For two decades, citizens of King County were terrorized by the nation’s most prolific serial killer,” …show more content…
He was a married man and a father from Washington. He was married three times, and at the time of his arrest, he and his wife lived a respectable life in a quiet area, where his neighbors thought of him as a stand-up guy. He held the same job as a Seattle-area truck painter for 30 years in Kenworth truck factory in Renton, Washington. His childhood was troubled; he grew up in a house where he was harassed by his mother, Mary Ridgway. He was the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons. Gary Ridgway’s relatives have described his mother as domineering and have said that young Ridgway witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents. His mother had no care for Gary Ridgway whose IQ of 82 showed very low intelligence and thinking he was unable to help at home. As Gary got older he suffered from occasionally wetting the bed. When his mother found out she would clean him up, and then humiliate him in front of his brother and father. This caused Ridgway to get very embarrassed and upset. His mother would also abuse him by hitting and mistreating him. Ridgway would be full of hatred while all of this was happening. Ridgway began to think differently of his mother. After being tormented so long, Ridgway began thinking of sexual and physical torments he wanted to do to his mother. Gary Ridgway’s father was a bus driver who would often complain about the presence of prostitutes. When Ridgway graduated …show more content…
To put the victim at ease he would show them a picture of his son and talk affectionately about him to trick her into trusting him. After raping her, he strangled her from behind. He initially strangled them manually. However, many victims inflicted wounds and bruises on his arm while trying to defend themselves. Concerned these wounds and bruises would draw attention, he began using ligatures to strangle his victims. He killed most victims in his home, his truck, or a secluded area and then he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas around the Green River. Gary Ridgway has said some creepy things “My method’s working pretty good. Choking is what I did, and I was pretty good at it;" and “They look in the bedrooms, nobody’s in there, nothin’s, you know, there’s my son’s room. Hey, this guy has a son, he’s not gonna hurt anybody.” He preferred choking to other forms of murder because “that was more personal and more rewarding than to shoot her.” And the victims’ bodies are usually nude and their fingernails chipped. Killer would come back to relive the experience and even have sexual intercourse with their dead bodies again and again. The first five victims are found either in or around the green river in Washington state, and that’s how the nickname “green river killer” was