When he was 16 years old, Gary lured a six-year-old boy into the woods and stabbed him through the ribs into his liver. He went on to graduate high school and marry his 19-year-old girlfriend, Claudia Kraig. Ridgway joined the Army and was sent to Vietnam, there he took advantage of many prostitutes, he contracted gonorrhea but still went on using prostitutes. While he was abroad, Kraig committed adultery and their marriage ended within a year. Gary remarried and became quite religious during his second marriage, crying as sermons and bible verses were read. Despite his new found Christianity, he still had sexual intercourse with prostitutes. Many of Ridgeway's ex-wives and ex-girlfriends stated that he would demand sexual actions from them multiple times a day and in public places.
He would pick up prostitutes and young girls, usually runaways. After taking them he would strangle them using his hands, sometimes using a ligature. Then he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas of King County, often returning to the bodies to commit necrophilia. On November 30, 2001, Ridgway was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. To avoid the death penalty, part of his plea bargain was to disclose the locations of still-missing women, he was spared the death penalty and recieved a life imprisonment without parole.
Gary Ridgway was diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder. Because of APD, he was able to kill prostitutes after fulling his sexual desires with no guilt or remorse. There isn't much documentation on his psychological evaluation(s). It is possible that this information isn't released due to the fact that he is still living.
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| Coutresy of criminalminds.wikia.com |
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