Adult Life
After he graduated high school, he married his high school sweetheart, Claudia Kraig. He then enlisted in the Navy and was sent on a tour to Vietnam where he saw combat. In the Navy, he started having sexual encounters while in ports with prostitutes regularly and contracted Gonorrhea. He blamed the prostitutes for infecting him, which began his life long hate for prostitutes. When Ridgway returned to the US, he discovered his wife had been having an affair and that ended their marriage. In 1972, Ridgway was back in his hometown after being honorably discharged.
He got a job at the local Kenworth plant painting designs on trucks. Ridgway quickly found another spouse in Macia Winslow. Early in his marriage, he would often have sex with Marcia in public outdoor scenery in the Western Washington area. Later it was found that some of those places were the dumping sites of the bodies of many of his murders. They had a kid together named Matthew. Ridgway was not particularly happy with the birth of Matthew. Mostly because it changed their marriage in a sexual sense because she was not always available to him anymore. His demeanor towards her began to change and his idea of foreplay on some occasions was to choke her. Marcia eventually divorced him.
He got a job at the local Kenworth plant painting designs on trucks. Ridgway quickly found another spouse in Macia Winslow. Early in his marriage, he would often have sex with Marcia in public outdoor scenery in the Western Washington area. Later it was found that some of those places were the dumping sites of the bodies of many of his murders. They had a kid together named Matthew. Ridgway was not particularly happy with the birth of Matthew. Mostly because it changed their marriage in a sexual sense because she was not always available to him anymore. His demeanor towards her began to change and his idea of foreplay on some occasions was to choke her. Marcia eventually divorced him.