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He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders and later confessed to nearly twice that number. Most of his victims were prostitutes and other women in vulnerable situations, including underage runaways.
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Because He was charged for a crime related to prostitution, Gary Ridgway also became a suspect in the Green River Killings, they gave it that name because the first five victims were found at the green river in Washington State.
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Ridgway was at the Kenworth Truck factory, where he worked as a spray painter, when police arrived to arrest him. Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of murder of four women nearly 20 years after first being identified as a potential suspect.
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He was charged for murder of four women.
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He was charged for the murder of three more people. He wasn't only a murderer, he also was a rapist
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Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder as part of a plea bargain, agreed to in June, that would spare him execution in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details. In his statement accompanying his guilty plea, Ridgway explained that all of his victims had been killed inside King County, Washington.
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The court sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be served consecutively. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences.
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USP Florence is a high security federal prison in Colorado.
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He was transferred to be “easily accessible” for open murder investigations.
