Our True Crime season is here and episode two features Gary Ridgway - The Green River Killer.
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Birth and youthVery interesting to see that he ticked many boxes for the ‘profile’ of a youth who may go on to become a ‘worry’ when older. Overbearing Mother who was very prudish as regards sex, and a feckless Father who added very little to the kid in terms of a positive male role model. His father also hated sex workers and saw them as subhuman – this will feature later!
His father also told him an anecdote about working in a morgue and how a co-worker had sex with dead bodies…not the most appropriate story for a young son!!
His parents argued a lot, and he became anxious. He wet the bed and his Mum would wash his genitals by hand afterwards, even into his teens. He said later he found this sexual and also angered him, and he often daydreamed about killing her.
His mum was a cleanliness freak, and very domineering, and the major figure in his young life. When he wet the bed she would tell his family, and show his brothers the wet sheets. He spied on her getting dressed and sunbathing and she – according to witnesses – was certainly not scared of tight clothes, and a ‘slutty look’.
Born Feb 1949…the family moved to Seatac near Seattle in 1960. Soon after he started torturing animals (Ding! Ding! Another warning sign!) – birds, mice and the family cat!! He then began to become interested in pyromania (Ding)…he also started to wank off when setting fires.
“I always wondered what it would be like to kill someone.”
-- Gary Ridgway
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