While deployed in Vietnam, he indulged his obsession with sex workers, even after contracting gonorrhea. Ridgway also committed arson as a teen and tortured and killed animals, including killing a cat by trapping it in a freezer.Īfter graduating from high school in 1969, Ridgway married his first wife, Claudia Kraig, and served two years in the Navy. The boy lived he reported that Ridgway walked away laughing, leaving the boy to bleed. Growing up in a violent home absolutely affected Ridgway when he was just a teenager, he lured a 6-year-old child into the woods and stabbed him. This may have contributed to Ridgway's later obsession with and multiple murders of sex workers. Ridgway's father was a bus driver who talked frequently about sex workers. Ridgway would later admit to both sexual fantasies about his mother, and fantasies about murdering her. This is known as an Oedipus complex, after the character from Greek mythology who married his own mother, not knowing who she was. This, disturbingly, led to Ridgway harboring sexual thoughts about his own mother. Ridgway wet the bed into his teenage years his mother would clean his genitals after an episode, even when he was old enough to clean himself. His mother was abusive and had a foul temper.
Ridgway's twisted views of sex started at a young age.
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