At the age of 18, Gary enlisted with the Navy and served on board of a supply ship in Vietnam. He claimed to have committed his first murder when he was a teenager, drowning a young boy by wrapping his legs around him while swimming and holding him underwater until he drowned. In 1963, aged 14, Gary attempted to kill a six-year-old boy by stabbing him, but was unsuccessful and was never caught for the act. Having an estimated IQ of 82, he did poorly in school he even had to redo a single school year twice before he could get passing grades. He would also shoot birds with a BB gun with his brothers. Gary was a frequent bed-wetter and also tortured animals, locking a cat into a refrigerator until it died on one occasion. His mother, Mary Rita Ridgway (née Steinman), ruled the household and was physically and mentally abusive towards Gary and also to his two brothers, Gregory and Thomas Jr., and even her husband. His father, Thomas Newton Ridgway, worked as a bus driver who often complained about the prostitutes who frequented the streets on his route. Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 18, 1949, and raised in SeaTac, Washington.
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