...Ramroop, Kevin (Part 3) Part 1: 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,”...
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...The Green River Killer: Gary Leon Ridgway Columbia Southern University Criminal Investigation / BCJ 3701 March 28, 2013 Serial Killer The Green River Killer is one of the titles given to Gary Leon Ridgway for the crimes he committed. Gary was born on February 18, 1949 and was apprehended on November 30, 2001. Gary Ridgeway was a serial sexual killer that learned how to meet his various needs with sexual aggression and violence. Those reenacted fantasies came from his needs and core issues stem, “translating life experiences into his own frame of reference”. Gary Ridgway is an example of a “mission killer, motivated by revenge and retaliation against women, easily marked and victimized” (Carlton Smith, Tomas Guillen, 2004, p.1). The offender was in touch with reality and acts on a conscious, self-imposed duty to rid the world of the particular group that those women appeared to be from. Between 1982 and 1984, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were murdered although the first victims’ body left by the Green River Killer was first discovered in 1982, this murderous conniption is presently known to have lasted longer than originally speculated. This case represented years of thwarting and disgruntlement, accumulating years of hypothesis and contemplation surrounding the identity of the offender. In spite of a full scale man hunt, comprehensive inquisitions and investigation, the sadistic killer escaped authorities...
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...Gary Leon Ridgeway Michel Marquez Keiser University 08/13/2013 Gary Leon Ridgeway Gary was a ruthless serial killer that targeted prostitutes in King County, Washington. In 1982 women stared disappearing around King County because of Gary Ridgeway but at the time the police had no idea who he was. The first young lady that Gary Ridgeway kidnapped and killed was 16 year old Wendy Lee Coffield. The police found her in a river called The Green River, since the police obviously did not know the name of the killer they began calling him The Green River Killer after finding the next four bodies in the same river. Gary Ridgeway would kidnap these females mostly prostitutes strangle them and then would drop them off in a variation of places but mostly in The Green River thus dubbed The Green River Killer. The King County police department had no way of knowing that Coffield (Gary’s first victim) represented the beginning of a savage killing spree that would last for years, with the majority of the murders occurring from 1982 through 1984. Gary was not very smart in school and witnessed his parents fighting occasionally. His childhood life was full of reasons that would point to why he ended up doing the things he did. Gary was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Gary he was the middle son of Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway. During his childhood he was a very poor student but did not appear to be out of the normal...
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...I killed the 48 women listed in the states second amended information. In most cases when I killed these women I did not know their names. Most of the time I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. (Seattle - From statement of Green River killer Gary Ridgway, read in court in November 2003 by prosecutor Jeff Baird) Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, dumping the first five bodies of his victims along the Green River in King County, Washington, pleaded guilty on the 5th November 2003, to the murders of 48 women from 1982 to 1998. He is considered one of the most profilic psycho-serial killer in U.S. history, having one of the longest cases ever to be solved, including other isolated murders. In 1982, many young people had gone missing and this tolled up, over the years. A number of femail victims found dead in isolated parts of King County, Washington. In most cases, skeletal remains were found as the bodies took long to be discovered. Moreoever, most bodies were found nude and with no possessions thus making identification difficult. The "Green River Task Force" was set up in consequence to investigate the killings and track the suspect. At first, due to the large amount of data recieved at the police station in a short period of time, the investigation was delayed and there was not enough resources for the data to be processed and thus some data was lost. A common trait was identified from all the victims...
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...Gary Leon Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and after a string of killings that extended roughly 20 years he was dubbed, by local police, as the Green River Killer. He had admitted to killing over 90 prostitutes and had “lost count because it was so many”. Despite his IQ of 82, he had this serial killing down to a science and evaded police for quite sometime before a DNA test eventually convicted him of a murder and tied him to the whole string of murders that he had committed over the past decade. One has to ask themselves, “What makes a person such a monster?”, in this paper I will attempt to explain what may or may not have contributed to these horrific murders. However it is important to keep in mind that these are theories and not actual factual explanations for these acts of violence. Neurosis is defined as various forms of mental disorders of less violent nature. Now you think how could I have chosen this, “less violent behavior”, when the man killed prostitutes by strangling them, one of the more violent things a person is capable of. I chose it because it includes anxiety disorders which I believe Ridgway must have had that stemmed into his adult life, I based this theory off the fact that his mother would embarrass him in front of family and friends because he had a bed wetting problem later into life than most. Also the list of disorders that neurosis had, one stood out to me, Post traumatic stress disorder or PTS. He did serve in the military during Vietnam...
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...Since the development of Psychology, the effects of childhood development and behavior has been a largely controversial topic. Psychologists, such as Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget, have been avid supporters of the idea that childhood development largely depends upon factors in their environment while growing up. It is believed that negative environments are the embryo for psychological disorders expressed later in life. The early childhood and developmental environments of multiple clearly psychotic individuals, such as infamous serial killers, have been studied to determine the cause of such undesirable disorders. These disorders continue to hinder the lives of many people to the point that they can’t even function in society. Many events during childhood, such as abuse, isolation, or the lack of love and support, have many negative effects on the growing and developing young brain. One such area that is largely damaged due to child abuse is the subiculum part of the brain. The subiculum relays the hippocampus with the rest of the brain and is responsible for the internal rewards center, which helps the individual feel good about themselves and their actions. Damage to this area of the brain has been linked to drug abuse and schizophrenia shown later in that individual's life. Similarly, during essential brain developmental periods a decrease in hippocampus volume, from stress due to childhood abuse and maltreatment, is highly correlated to psychiatric disorders. Of the...
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...legally obtained confession is obtained during the course of a post-test interview, the examiner in some cases will be subpoenaed to testify as to the details of that confession under oath. There are too many variables when it comes to the instrument and examiner to make the test reliable. The instrument itself must be working properly, the examiner must be properly trained to ask the proper questions in the right way and the examinee must be willing to participate to even have a modicum of accuracy. If people are ill, on medications, elderly, under the influence of alcohol, mentally challenged or unbalanced or even obese, the results could be skewed. The polygraph has failed on numerous occasions. It failed to catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer”. He passed the test in 1984 and then confessed 20 years later to killing dozens of women when confronted with DNA evidence. Aldrich Hazen Ames is an American traitor who was convicted of espionage in 1994. In 1986 and 1991, Ames passed two polygraph examinations while spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively. Ames was initially "terrified" at the prospect of taking the test, but he was advised by the KGB "to just relax". Ames's test demonstrated deceptive answers to...
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...VOLUME EDITOR S. WALLER is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research are philosophy of neurology, philosophy of cognitive ethology (especially dolphins, wolves, and coyotes), and philosophy of mind, specifically the parts of the mind we disavow. SERIES EDITOR FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). P H I L O S O P H Y F O R E V E RYO N E Series editor: Fritz Allhoff Not so much a subject matter, philosophy is a way of thinking.Thinking not just about the Big Questions, but about little ones too.This series invites everyone to ponder things they care about, big or small, significant, serious … or just curious. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind Edited by Michael W. Austin Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking Edited by Fritz Allhoff Food & Philosophy: Eat,Think and Be Merry Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking Edited by Steven D. Hales Whiskey & Philosophy:...
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