76 Facts About Jerry Brudos

Jerry Brudos is known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

Jerry Brudos became known as the "Lust Killer" due to the primal motive behind his crimes; he became known as the "Shoe Fetish Slayer" due to his lifelong shoe fetishism.

Jerome Henry Jerry Brudos was born in Webster, South Dakota, on January 31,1939, the younger of two sons born to Marie Eileen and Henry Ervin Jerry Brudos.

Jerry Brudos's mother had wanted her second child to be a girl and was very displeased that she gave birth to another son; she would frequently emotionally abuse and belittle her younger son, making no secret of the fact to Brudos she had wanted a daughter as opposed to another son.

The Jerry Brudos family lived a modest and pious lifestyle; Jerry Brudos's father typically held casual and often seasonal employment, whereas his mother was a homemaker.

Jerry Brudos was an unremarkable and sickly child with few friends and who frequently complained of throat pains and migraines; he typically achieved average grades as opposed to his academically achieving and popular brother.

At high school, Jerry Brudos remained an unremarkable individual to his peers and teachers alike.

Jerry Brudos seldom engaged in extracurricular activities, although he is known to have been the secretary-treasurer of a youth club in his early teens.

Jerry Brudos harbored a lifelong shoe and foot fetish; he later recollected his fascination for women's shoes and feet sourced from an incident when he, aged approximately five years, observed the teenage daughter of a family friend lying asleep on his bed, having been allowed to do so by Jerry Brudos's parents after she complained of feeling unwell.

Jerry Brudos took these shoes home, then slipped them on his feet to show his mother.

Two years after this incident, Jerry Brudos attempted to steal the high-heeled shoes of his first grade teacher; when caught, Jerry Brudos confessed to his actions although when asked why, he claimed not to know why he had attempted to steal the footwear.

Jerry Brudos later claimed to fail to ejaculate during the act of masturbation as a teenager, although he frequently experienced wet dreams.

Jerry Brudos stole and retained numerous items of lingerie and footwear.

At the age of sixteen, Jerry Brudos dug an underground tunnel and alcove close to his family home; this alcove was created to symbolically enact the developing fantasies within his mind regarding captive women, and he spent numerous hours within this lair at age sixteen mentally hoping to entrap a captive.

Almost immediately upon luring the girl to his bedroom upon innocuous pretenses, Jerry Brudos exited the bedroom, only to reappear minutes later wearing a mask and brandishing a knife.

Jerry Brudos forced the girl to strip naked before proceeding to take several photographs of her before fleeing.

Minutes later, Jerry Brudos reappeared wearing his original shirt and with his hair in disarray and a minor scuff mark on his cheek, claiming the intruder had locked him in the family barn at knifepoint.

On one occasion in April 1956, Jerry Brudos persuaded a 17-year-old girl to accompany him on a date.

Jerry Brudos lamely claimed the girl had fallen from the car before changing his story to claim the hysterical girl had been attacked by "some weirdo" he had overpowered.

Jerry Brudos's story was not believed, and the couple drove the two to the nearest police station, where Brudos admitted attacking the girl but claimed that his intention had been to simply intimidate her into removing her clothes in order that he could photograph her.

Jerry Brudos denied having ever committed any previous acts of this nature and insisted his temper had simply gotten the better of him.

Jerry Brudos was remanded in custody, to be referred to the Polk County Juvenile Department.

Jerry Brudos was treated as a juvenile offender and sent to undergo psychiatric evaluations within the Oregon State Hospital.

Jerry Brudos entered this facility on April 16,1956, where he remained for nine months while permitted to leave the facility to attend high school.

Two years later, in March 1959, Jerry Brudos joined the army, where he trained as a communications technician.

Jerry Brudos was discharged from the army in October 1959, having been classified as psychologically unfit for military service.

Jerry Brudos moved back into his parents' two-bedroom home in Corvallis, Oregon, and soon found employment at a local radio station as an electrical engineer.

On one occasion in approximately 1960, Jerry Brudos observed a young woman wearing revealing clothing; he discreetly followed this woman to her Salem apartment, where he strangled her into a semi-conscious state before fleeing with her shoes.

Shortly thereafter, Jerry Brudos observed another attractive young woman wearing high-heeled shoes.

Jerry Brudos attempted to overpower and strangle this woman; however, this individual fought back, and Brudos fled the scene with only one of her shoes.

Approximately one year after gaining employment at the Corvallis radio station, Jerry Brudos became acquainted with a 17-year-old girl named Ralphene Schwinler.

Jerry Brudos was never physically or emotionally abusive towards his wife, although in the early years of their marriage he insisted she frequently walk around the house and perform housework naked save for a pair of high-heeled shoes, often as he photographed her before engaging in intercourse.

Furthermore, Jerry Brudos had begun putting on weight; his wife would later state that, although she never informed her husband, his physical appearance had begun to repel her.

In May 1967, as his wife was in hospital giving birth to their second child, Jerry Brudos discreetly followed a young woman wearing attractive high-heeled shoes to her home; he waited until nightfall before entering her apartment, whereupon he proceeded to choke her into unconsciousness.

Jerry Brudos was charged with stealing women's clothing, and was wearing pedal pushers, high-heeled shoes and women's underwear at the time of this arrest.

Between 1968 and 1969, Jerry Brudos abducted and strangled four young women and attempted to abduct a minimum of two others.

Each victim was subjected to acts of necrophilia and three were mutilated after death, with Jerry Brudos retaining the severed body parts to fuel his fetishes in addition to expressing his dominance.

Slawson was a 19-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman from Aloha, Oregon, whom Jerry Brudos encountered as he worked in his yard on January 26,1968; she inadvertently entered his property having confused his address with a neighbor's on the belief she had an appointment with the homeowner to potentially sell an encyclopedia.

Jerry Brudos then asked his mother to take his daughter from the house to purchase hamburgers in order that he could engage in necrophilia with Slawson's body.

Hours later, Jerry Brudos severed Slawson's left foot from her body with a hacksaw; he retained this severed appendage in the rear of the family freezer with view to both future usage of modelling his extensive collection of high-heeled shoes and to fuel his masturbatory fantasies.

Jerry Brudos retained the two encyclopedias Slawson had hoped to sell him as keepsakes.

Jerry Brudos later bound the remainder of Slawson's body to a heavy cylinder head and discarded her body "over a rail somewhere" in Marion County, adding he could not recall the precise location.

Jerry Brudos encountered Whitney, a 23-year-old motorist, as he drove home from a job in Lebanon on November 26,1968.

Whitney agreed to the challenge; Jerry Brudos then strangled her from behind with a leather luggage strap before raping her body inside the vehicle.

Jerry Brudos then carried her body into his garage workshop where he dressed her body in differing footwear and lingerie before repeatedly engaging in acts of necrophilia with her corpse.

Whitney's body was left hoisted from the pulley in the workshop ceiling for two days, with Jerry Brudos later admitting to violating her body whenever he "felt the need".

Jerry Brudos's body was dressed in differing lingerie and repeatedly photographed.

Jerry Brudos severed one of her breasts with view to usage as a paperweight, although this idea was abandoned when he noted the epoxy hardener failed to fully set.

Jerry Brudos instead stuffed the breast with sawdust before pinning the organ to a wooden board.

Jerry Brudos was forced at gunpoint to enter his vehicle and accompany him to his home, with Brudos promising not to harm her.

Jerry Brudos then bound Sprinker's hands behind her back before placing a rope around her neck.

Jerry Brudos then asked her if the rope was too tight; Sprinker replied that it was.

Wood later recalled feeling a tapping motion on her shoulder, only to turn around to observe Jerry Brudos pointing a pistol at her face and ordering her not to scream.

When Smith observed a woman working on her front lawn, she yelled and ran towards the woman, causing Jerry Brudos to flee from the scene.

Salee was a 22-year-old removal firm secretary and part-time Portland State University student from Beaverton, Oregon, whom Jerry Brudos abducted from the grounds of the Lloyd Center shopping mall late in the afternoon of April 23,1969.

Salee had purchased a pair of slacks and a watchband as birthday gifts for her fiance from the mall and was returning to her vehicle when approached by Jerry Brudos, who deceived her into believing he was a police officer by displaying a fake police badge and informing her she was being arrested for shoplifting.

Jerry Brudos then drove toward his home; he parked inside his garage and ordered Salee to follow him across the yard to his home, believing his wife and children to be with relatives.

Jerry Brudos informed his wife he would be in the house in a few moments, then returned Salee to the garage, where she was bound with cord.

Jerry Brudos then entered the house alone to eat with his family.

Salee's body was then hung by the neck upon the same workshop pulley as Jerry Brudos had his previous two victims; he then placed a hypodermic needle into her rib cage beneath each armpit through which he ran an electrical current in an effort to animate her body.

Jerry Brudos retained Salee's body for twenty-four hours, engaging in necrophilia on one occasion, before binding her body to a vehicle gearbox and discarding her in the Willamette River.

Jerry Brudos described this man as being Caucasian, in his late twenties or early thirties, slightly overweight, with thinning "blondish-red" hair and freckles; his vehicle had been a dirty station wagon "with kids' clothes in it", leading her to believe he had actually been married.

Jerry Brudos provided police with his correct name, age and occupation, but gave a false address.

Almost all the photographs had been taken within Jerry Brudos's garage, including several depicting a deceased woman hanging from the garage pulley with a mirror laid horizontally upon the floor directly beneath her feet.

Jerry Brudos was discovered by Oregon state troopers hiding beneath a blanket in the rear of the family station wagon as his wife drove the vehicle toward Portland.

Jerry Brudos began by outlining the opportunistic murder of Linda Slawson, which had not been linked to him and which he admitted had been instigated largely because of the attractive high-heeled shoes the young woman had been wearing when she had accidentally entered his property to sell encyclopedias, before outlining each of his subsequent murders and attempted abductions.

The psychiatrists who examined Jerry Brudos concluded he was unable to achieve satisfaction from normal intercourse and that the overriding motive behind his crimes was lust, adding that, even in cases where Jerry Brudos had killed women he had encountered in moments of opportunism, he had known he would ultimately murder his victim.

Jerry Brudos repeatedly appealed his conviction, although every appeal was unsuccessful.

Jerry Brudos was acquitted of all charges the following month.

Jerry Brudos was permitted to order mail-order catalogs depicting women modeling high-heeled shoes and underwear; he used this material to fuel his erotic and masturbatory fantasies.

Jerry Brudos attended numerous parole hearings throughout his confinement, although family members of his victims repeatedly attended these scheduled parole hearings in which they requested he remain incarcerated for the duration of his life; he was informed on June 21,1995, that he would spend the remainder of his life in prison.

Nonetheless, Jerry Brudos continued to attend informal parole hearings every two years for the remainder of his life,.

The Jerry Brudos children were taken into state care, and Theresa Jerry Brudos was later instructed to undergo questioning at her mother's upcoming trial.

Jerry Brudos divorced and ultimately severed all contact with her husband, changed her name and relocated to an undisclosed state, although Brudos professed his love for her for the remainder of his life.

Jerry Brudos was never brought to trial for the murder of Linda Slawson.

Jerry Brudos's body was recovered approximately one mile downstream from the location Brudos had indicated to investigators he had disposed of her body, and was identified via dental records.