This article has some really interesting insights into his personality:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/cri...oting-implicated-in-five-anchorage-homicides/
After he was arrested for selling drugs in 1998:
Ritchie pleaded no contest to felony misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree. He was sentenced to three years probation.
In a letter to the judge in his case, Ritchie wrote that he "lay in bed every night thinking about how I've ruined my life. Then I sit up crying wishing I could go back to when I was in high school."
Ritchie wrote he would have "chosen a small Division II school to go play football at instead of a Division I college."
"I want to finish college, raise a family and buy a house," he wrote. "Instead as a felon I'll never be able to get a good job."
So if he was in and out of prison and unable to get his life back on track, which sounds like the case, maybe he was delusional and trying to "save" others from the same fate? He had psychiatric medication at one point but it doesn't say if they were prescribed to him or obtained elsewhere. I don't know.
I'll stop spamming this thread now, though!
EDIT: The article also has a partial timeline of his whereabouts, which I'll distill below.
1994: Graduated high school in Anchorage, AK.
1998: Was arrested for the first time for selling drugs out of an apartment in Anchorage. Had a gun at this time. Pleaded no contest.
1999: Arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Had a loaded gun in his car at this time.
2000: Filed for a business license in Alaska for a company servicing vending machines. Unknown if it was successful.
2002-2005: Arrested several times for parole violations in Alaska. Spent time in halfway houses.
2005: Arrested for burglary in Anchorage. Had eight "flex cuffs." Two guns not belonging to the home's residents were found at the scene. Pleaded no contest.
2007: Released; no arrests in Alaska after 2007.
2009: Last application for a Permanent Fund dividend (paid to all Alaska residents who live in-state for a full year).
2011: Last known address in Anchorage until February 2016.
2011-2016: Spent at least some time in Virginia, where his parents live near the West Virginia border. Dealt with traffic violations in Harrisonburg/Rockingham District Court, VA in 2013 and 2014. Also spent some time traveling "the lower 48."
February 2016-Present: Was in Anchorage and probably not homeless, but police don't know his whereabouts in recent months.