Jerry Brudos was born on January 31st, 1939 in Webster, South Dakota. He was the youngest of four boys and was psychologically damaged as a child by a mother who desperately wanted a girl child. She dressed him up like a Barbie Doll and he developed a weird fetish for women’s shoes and underwear.
Shoe Fetish
Jerry’s family moved to Salem, Oregon and he soon began stealing women’s shoes and underwear at an early age. He would steal from neighbors and anywhere he could. When he was a teenager he began stalking young women and beating and choking them unconscious and stealing their shoes.
When he was 17 he was arrested for kidnapping and beating a young woman and was remitted to the Oregon State Hospital for nine months. Psychiatric evaluation diagnosed him with schizophrenia and blamed his sexual perversions and attacks as a revenge against his mother and women in general.
Night Raids
Jerry married in 1961 and fathered two children and had his seventeen-year-old bride parade around in nothing but high heels. When this proved not stimulating enough he would go out on night raid and steal shoes and underwear to sate his compulsions.
He began to experience severe migraine headaches and suffer from blackouts. He started keeping trophies of his pilfered ladies wear in his garage under lock and key and would soon begin to collect more grisly prizes. Soon Brudos’s lust fetish would spiral out of control and lead him on a collision course with strangulation and murder.
The Lust Killer
Jerry would soon earn one of his nicknames by preying on women and killing them and collecting their body parts as souvenirs. Between 1968 and 1969 Brudos strangled four young women, the first being nineteen year-old Linda Slawson, whose foot he kept to model his shoe collection.
He also butchered three other young women, Jan Whitney, Karen Sprinkler, and Linda Salee. When arrested he was found in possession of Linda Slawson’s severed foot and a pair of women’s breasts he was using as a paper weight and many other incriminating articles.
Brudos Gets Life
A life that began with abuse and mental illness would lead Jerry Brudos down a path of destruction and uncontrollable fetish compulsion and would leave four dead young women and their devastated families in it’s wake.
Jerry readily admitted his crimes when caught and explained them in detail. He was convicted of the four killings and sentenced to life in prison. He spent the rest of his life behind bars collecting mail order shoe catalogues up until he died of natural causes in 2006 at the age of 67.
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