Gary's Motive
- He did not look prostitutes and did not feel he should pay for their services.
- Contracted gonorrhea.
- Picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed.
- Wanted to experience the act of controlling a women so he could get sex whenever. (necrophilia)
- Had a desire to kill.
How caught?
In 1984 Ridgway was arrested for trying to solicit an undercover police woman posing as a prostitute. On numerous occasions he was caught with prostitutes or last seen wit them, this made police target him as the suspect, but he passed every polygraph test. After detectives collected DNA from gary, the 2001 task force was able to use DNA analysis to show gary as the suspect.