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Gary Ridgway went on a 20 year killing spre, which makes him one of the most proflic serial killers in U.S. history. He was born on Feberury 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing up he was troubled in school because he only had an I.Q. of 82 and he had dyslexia. His teenage years were unremarkable until the age 16 when he led a six year old boy into the woods and stabbed him through the ribs and into the liver. The boy surived and said that Ridgway walked away laughing.In 1969 Ridgway was 20 and just out of high school, with no college in his future, he decied to join the Navy. Before he went joined the Navy he married his first steady girlfriend, Claudia Barrows. While he was in Vietnam he started to have sex with prostitutes and he contracted STD's and his wife left him for it. After Claudia Barrows left Gary Ridgway he married Marcia Winslow and during the marriage he became a religious fanatic. The first body was found in the middle of July in 1982 floating in the Green River in King County, Washington. The Green River Task Force was on the case and figured out that most of the victims were prostitutes and young runaways who worked or hitchhiked along Pac Highway. In October of 1983 Ted Bundy, sitting on death row at the time, offered to help the Task Force profile the Green River Killer and the Task Force find him. The Green River Killer was finally arrested on November, 30,2001.