Father detailed necrophilia stories
Gary's father Thomas worked at a mortuary and told his teenage son graphic, detailed stories about a coworker who committed necrophilia with female corpses.
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Episode 671: Gary Ridgway : Redux Part I - Wrong Way Gary
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Jul 3, 2026
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Killing Creatures, Fantasizing About His Mother: Gary's Interior World Darkens
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With each passing year Gary's interior world became more violent. Killing birds and suffocating his cat made him feel strong — a relief valve for accumulated rage. Thomas Ridgway's graphic mortuary stories about a coworker committing necrophilia introduced the act directly into Gary's sexual fantasy life, building the belief that a corpse was a perfectly casual, emotionally uncomplicated sexual partner. But Gary's most detailed fantasies were directed at his own mother: he thought obsessively about stabbing Mary Rita in the heart, choking her, setting the house on fire with her inside, and — in what Marcus notes is a grotesque flash of 'vague creativity' — sewing up her vagina with a needle and thread. From there, Gary's fantasy life escalated to following female classmates home while maintaining a massive erection, a behavior he called 'patrolling.'
Thomas Ridgway's Necrophilia Bedtime Stories
Gary's father Thomas worked at a mortuary and regularly shared graphic, unnecessary details about a coworker who committed necrophilia with female corpses — telling these stories directly to his teenage son. This is how necrophilia entered Gary Ridgway's sexual fantasies long before he had a body of his own to revisit.
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