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.

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

Height

178 cm

Occupation

serial killer / military personnel / painter

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 or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.