Gary Ridgway

I include Gary Ridgway in this database with reluctance and a clear purpose: documentation, not fascination. The Green River Killer was convicted of murdering forty-nine women between 1982 and 1998, and what unsettles me most is how ordinary he appeared, a steady worker, a neighbor, a face nobody remembered. True-crime culture too often turns men like him into dark celebrities, and I refuse to play along. If this entry has any value, it is as a reminder that evil rarely announces itself, and that the names worth remembering belong to the victims, not to the man who took their lives.

Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer or the Green River Strangler, is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering forty-nine women between 1982 and 1998 in the northwestern United States. At the time of his arrest in 2001, he was believed to be the most prolific serial killer in United States history, according to confirmed murders.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name (English)

Gary Ridgway

Name (Japanese)

ゲイリー・リッジウェイ

Reading

げいりー・りっじうぇい

Born

February 18, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

Origin

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

178 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

serial killer / military personnel / painter

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4

Tags

• Utah
• serial killer
• military personnel
• painter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.