Pictures and Letters from Judith Ridgway’s Book, ‘Green River Serial Killer: Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife.’

Gary Ridgway at six months old.
Judith at seven months old.
Helen Downing holding a one year old Judith in 1945.
Judith at four years old in 1946.
Another picture of Judith at four years old in 1946.
Judith at the age of six in 1950.
Judith Ridgway at eight years old in 1952.
A young Judith on a horse in Renton; at the time the picture was taken a ‘traveling photographer’ had come to her door.
Judith in her early teens in her swim suit.
Judith Ridgway at the age of sixteen old in 1952.
Judith at sixteen years old in 1960 at Ryther Child Care.
Judith at twenty all dressed up in her mothers clothes for a dance with her future husband Lee Lynch in 1064.
Judith at twenty-one on her wedding day in 1965.
Judith and Lee on their wedding day, 1965.
A picture of Judith and her first husband on their wedding day in 1965.
Judith holding her oldest daughter in 1966.
Underneath this picture is written ‘no caption.’
Gary Ridgway at sixteen years old in 1965.
Judith camping at a medieval festival.
Judith and Lee with their two daughters, Rachel (L) and Marie (R) at a Medieval festival in Seattle that took place sometime in the 1970’s.
A picture of Judith and Lee in 1969 (he insisted that she wear long gowns).
Judith and Lee ‘always drank plenty of wine.’
Lee and Judith in Medieval costumes sometime in the 1970’s.
A picture of Judith and Lee (Judith was dressed in a home made ‘purple costume’).
Lee and Judith posing in their Victorian-styled home.
Judith in 1965.
Lee and Judith’s first home, located at 917 B on 72nd Street in Seattle.
Lee and Judith’s second home, located at 4407 Sunnyside Avenue in Seattle.
Judith at a Medieval Festival (undated).
Judith and Gary in the beginning of their relationship, standing in front of one of the trucks he painted at the Kenworth Trucking Plant.
Judith and Gary in 1985, shortly after they began dating.
Gary and Judith in 1987 at Lake Sammamish.
Gary and Judith holding two of her grndchildren in 1987.
The Ridgway’s toasting at their wedding on June 12, 1988.
Judith and Gary at the Kenworth Trucking Open House sometime in the 1980’s.
Judith and Gary vacationing in the Bahamas in 1993.
Gary and Judith on a ferry ride in Seattle, picture taken in 1995.
Gary and Judith’s first motor home, picture taken in 1995.
Judith and Gary in 1996.
Judith and Gary in 1998.
Judith and Gary in 1998 at the Kenworth Trucking Company.
Gary and Judith camping in their dream motor home in Seaside, Oregon.
Judith and Gary celebrating his birthday on February 18, 2000 (one year before his arrest).
Judith holding the dog she shared with Gary named Oscar while standing in front of their new motor home in 2001.
Gary holding Oscar in 2001.
Judith and Gary posing with their poodle, Oscar only five months before his arrest.
Gary took Judith to the Expo in Vancouver, BC in 1986.
Gary and his dogs Sugar and Oscar in 1983.
Gary and Judith camping in the Washington Mountains in 1988.
The Ridgway’s on their wedding day on June 12, 1988.
Gary holding one of Judith’s grandchildren sometime in the 1990’s.
Judith and Gary in 1988.
Gary on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Gary and Judith on a beach in Washington state in 1988.
Kenworth Union trip to Las Vegas; the couples friend Jim Bailey is on the far left)
Judith at forty-two years old, one year after she met Gary.
Gary and Judith on one of many vacations they took in the 1980’s.
Gary enjoying a cold beer on a hot summers day.
Gary and Judith enjoying a summer afternoon at the KMPS country music radio picnic in Enumclaw, WA.
Marching motorcycles that Gary bought the couple for camping trips sometimes in the 1980’s.
Judith standing in front of Western State Mental Hospital, where she spent time as a child; oddly enough, Warren Leslie Forrest and Gary Addison Taylor both were incarcerated here as well.
Judith one year after Gary’s arrest.
The ‘park-like’ grounds of the Ridgway yard, picture taken in 2001.
The first page Gary drew of a layout of his jail cell; he mailed it to Judith shortly after his arrest.
The second page Gary drew of a layout of his jail cell; he mailed it to Judith shortly after his arrest.
The first page of a letter Gary wrote to Judith dated December 28, 2001.
Page second of a letter Gary sent Judith dated December 28, 2001.
Page two of a letter Gary sent Judith dated December 31, 2001.
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith dated February 27, 2002.
The second page of a letter Gary wrote to Judith dated February 27, 2002.
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith on January 1, 2004.
Page two of a letter Gary sent to Judith on January 1, 2004.
The first page of a letter Gary wrote to Judith dated February 23, 2002; I know it skips right to page three, but the book didn’t contain page two of the letter.
The third page of a letter Gary wrote to Judith dated February 23, 2002.
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith dated February 14, 2004.
Page two of a letter Gary sent Judith dated February 14, 2004.
Page one of a letter Gary wrote Judith on March 21, 2004.
Page two of a letter Gary sent Judith dated March 21, 2004.
The third page of a note Gary wrote to Judith on March 21, 2004.
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith dated April 14, 2004.
Page two of a letter Gary sent Judith dated April 14, 2004.
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith dated May 1, 2004.
The second page of a letter that Gary wrote to Judith dated May 1, 2004 (it seems to be more of a poem than anything else).
Page one of a letter Gary sent Judith dated December 23, 2001.
Page two of a letter Gary sent Judith dated December 23, 2001.
The front of a birthday card given to Judith from Gary, dated August 15, 2004.
The inside of a birthday card given to Judith from Gary, dated August 15, 2004.
A hand-written note from Gary from his August 15, 2004 card.
Tom and Mary Ridgway in the early 1990’s.
Mary Ridgway at her retirement party at JC Penney’s Department Store (she worked at the location at the South Center Mall in Tukwila).
Judith’s father, Wesley Mawson at seventeen years old; its the only photo of her biological father.

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