Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, to Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway. He had two brothers and was raised in the McMicken Heights neighborhood of Sea Tech, Washington. His homelife was somewhat troubled, as he witnessed more than one fight between his parents. As a boy, he...
This killer was known as the “Green River Killer‚” but his real name was Gary Leon Ridgway. Ridgeway would murder numerous women in and around the Seattle‚ Washington area during the 1980s and the 1990s. When he was captured in 2001‚ Ridgway had admitted to killing 48 plus women...
Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, American criminal who was the country’s deadliest convicted serial killer. He claimed to have killed as many as 80 women—many of whom were prostitutes—in Washington during the 1980s and ’90s, although he pled gui