Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least four women in Oregon between 1968 and 1969.
19 Facts About Jerry Brudos
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Jerry Brudos was born in Webster, South Dakota, as the younger of two sons.
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Jerry Brudos's mother had wanted a girl and was very displeased that she had another son instead, and constantly subjected him to emotional and physical abuse.
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Jerry Brudos had a fetish for women's shoes from the age of five, after playing with stiletto heeled shoes at a local junkyard.
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Jerry Brudos reportedly attempted to steal the shoes of his first grade teacher.
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Jerry Brudos had a fetish for women's underwear and claimed that he would steal underwear from female neighbors as a child.
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Jerry Brudos spent his teen years in and out of psychotherapy and psychiatric hospitals.
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Jerry Brudos underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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In 1961, Jerry Brudos married a 17-year-old girl with whom he would father two children, and settled in a Salem suburb.
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Jerry Brudos asked his new bride to do housework naked except for a pair of high heels while he took pictures.
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Jerry Brudos kept the shoes, underwear, and the bodies of his victims in a garage that he would not allow his wife to enter without first announcing her arrival on an intercom that he had set up.
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Between 1968 and 1969, Jerry Brudos bludgeoned and strangled four young women and attempted to attack two others:.
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The police asked students at a nearby university campus about suspicious men and one led them to Jerry Brudos, who had phoned her several times to ask her for a date.
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Jerry Brudos gave police a false address, which increased their suspicions.
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On June 28,1969, Jerry Brudos pled guilty to three first-degree murders and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment in Oregon State Penitentiary.
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Jerry Brudos wrote to major companies requesting them, and claimed they were his substitute for pornography.
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Jerry Brudos lodged countless appeals, including one in which he alleged that a photograph taken of him with one of his victim's corpses could not prove his guilt, because it was not the body of a person he was convicted of killing.
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Psychiatrist Michael H Stone identifies Brudos as having a psychopathic personality, noting his callousness and lack of remorse for his crimes.
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Jerry Brudos died in prison on March 28,2006, from liver cancer.