1Gary brith

Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons.

2Ridgway suffers from health problems

Ridgway had a bed-wetting problem until he was 13, and his mother would wash his genitals after every episode

3Ridgway's Graduation and marriage

Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married his 19-year-old high school girlfriend, Claudia Kraig.

4 Ridgway strangled a prostitute

In 1980, Ridgway was arrested for allegedly choking a prostitute, but no charges were filed after he claimed that the woman had bit him.

5Ridgway killed a lot of girls in Washington

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In court statements, Ridgway later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count.

6Ridgway was convicted of prostitution

Ridgway was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution.

7Ridgway married Judith

Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his third wife in 1988.

8Gary Ridgway's confessions

On November 5, 2003, Ridgway entered a guilty plea to 48 charges of aggravated first degree murder as part of a plea bargain, agreed to in June, that would spare him execution in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details.

9Ridgway's sentence

On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Judge Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be served consecutively. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences.

10Ridgway was placed in solitary

Ridgway was placed in solitary confinement at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in January 2004.

11The Skull of the woman was discovered in King County

On November 23, 2005, the Associated Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of one of the 48 women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors.

12Ridgway transferred to the USP Florence prison

On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to the USP Florence High, a high-security federal prison east of Cañon City, Colorado.