Gary Leon Ridgway 

February 18^th 1949 Salt Lake City, Utah

Well known as the “Green River Killer” is an American serial killer convicted of 49 murders, confessed more than 70 and presumed more than 90.

The 49 murders the make him go to prison occurred between 1982 and 1998, all the women were or prostitutes or teenage runaways between 15 and 38 years old with an average of 20 years old.

In his childhood Ridgway was mistreated by his mother who is associated with his killing behavior arguing that his mother generates to him a hate for the women.

Raised near Seattle's Pacific Highway, a deprived neighborhood near SeaTac airport, Ridgway was a poor student and was sent to Vietnam after high school. When he returned, he got a job painting trucks, which he kept for 30 years. Though he married three times and was fanatical about religion, Ridgway was a frequent customer of prostitutes. Ridgway's slayings began in 1982, when young runaways and prostitutes began disappearing from state Route 99 in south King County, Washington. He brought many of them to his home and strangled them, then left them in woodsy, remote sites. The first few bodies turned up along the now-notorious Green River. 

Ridgway’s friends, neighbors and family describes him like a normal person, friendly a person who likes work even some people said he was like of humble, and they just can’t believe he was the “Green River killer” because he seems like kind of stupid person to be a serial killer

Facing the prospect of execution, Ridgway told investigators that he killed as many as 60 women, and revealed where he'd hidden the bodies of four young women who had never been found. He was sentenced to life in prison in December 2003 having committed more murders than any serial killer in U.S. history.