Jerry Brudos

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos a.k.a. "The Shoe Fetish Slayer" was an American necrophilic serial killer and rapist.

History
Brudos was born in Webster, South Dakota, as the younger of two sons. During his childhood, he was constantly abused by his mother due to the fact that she always wanted a girl, and was displeased that she had another son instead. Brudos' fetish for women's shoes began when he was only five-years-old, after he had played with spike-heeled shoes at a junkyward, Brudos claimed that he attempted to steal his first grade teacher's shoes. Besides having a fetish for women's shoes, he had also a fetish for women's underwear, this resulted in him stealing his female neighbors' underwear. As a teenager, he was a patient at many mental hospitals, receiving psychotherapy from them. He would also stalk local women, knocking down or choking them unconscious, and fleeing with their shoes. When he was seventeen-years-old, he abducted and beat a young woman, threatening to stab her if she did not follow his sexual commands, Brudos was arrested shortly after and taken to a psychiatric ward for nine months. There, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and extreme misoginy. Despite being institutionalized, Brudos managed to graduate from high school in 1957 and became an electronics technician. Four years later, he married a seventeen-years-old girl and had two children with her, they both lived together in a suburb located in Salem, Oregon. Brudos would order his wife to do housework naked except for a pair of high weels while he took pictures. Sometime later, Brudos began complaining of migraine headcaches and blackouts, to relieve the symptons, he would steal shoes and lace undergarments during night-prowling raids. Brudos kept all of his stealed objects and for a time, the bodies of his victims, in a garage that he would not allow his wife to enter without announcing her arrival on an intercom. In 1967, Brudos followed a woman to her home because he had like her shoes, Brudos broke into her house while she was asleep and raped her before strangling her to the point of unconsciousness, he then left with some of her shoes.

On January 26, 1968, Brudos killed a girl named Linda Slawson when she was selling encyclopedias in the Portland neighborhood where Brudos lived with his wife and children, he pretended to be insterested in buying a set and then bludgeoned her, before strangling her to death. After killing her, he threw her body into the Willamette River from the Wilsonville bridge on Interstate 5, her body was never found. Several months later, Jan Whiteney was driving home from thanksgiving when her car broke down, Brudos saw her and stopped to offer help, but strangled her instead and engaged in necrophilia with her body, her car was later found abandoned at a rest stop along Insterstate 5 between Salem and Albany, her body was found tied to a piece of railroad iron on July 27, 1969. On the next year, Brudos abducted Karen Sprinker from the Meier & Frank parking lot, located in downtown, took her to his home, raped and killed her, her body was found on May 12, in the Long Tom River near Monroe. A month later, Brudos attempted to abduct another girl, Gloria Smith, but she managed to escape from him. A day later, Brudos abducted Linda Salee from a Lloyd Center parking lot in Portland, her body was found in the same river that Karen had been found. After a tip from an Oregon State University student, Brudos was finally identified as a suspect, in his house, police found copper wire, rope and pictures of his victims, Brudos was subsequently arrested and identified as the man who had attempted to abduct Gloria Smith. He was charged with three counts of murder and pleaded guilty three days before the scheduled start of the trial, after being given three life sentences, he was transferred to the Oregon State Penitentiary. Brudos died of liver cancer in March 28, 2006 at 5:10 AM, inside the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Modus Operandi
Brudos' murders were initially entirely opportunistic but began evolve his MO in later murders, Brudos would abduct young women from public places and take them to his home, there, he would strangle or bludgeon them to death. After killing them, he would engage in acts of necrophilia with their bodies and dress up in his victims' clothing. Brudos also kept trophies from his victims, such as a pair of amputated breasts that were used as paperwights and a severed left foot which he used to model the shoes he collected. After satisfying his desires with the bodies, he would dump them into local rivers.

Known Victims

 * Unspecified date: Unnamed woman


 * Unspecified date in May, 1967: Unnamed woman


 * 1968:
 * January 28: Linda Kay Slawson, 19
 * November 25: Jan Susan Whiteney, 23
 * 1969:
 * March 27: Karen Elena Sprinkler, 19
 * April 22: Gloria Jean Smith, 15
 * April 23: Linda Dawn Salee, 19

On Criminal Minds
Brudos is very similiar to Floyd Hansen. Both were serial killers who primarily targeted women, were abused by maternal figures, had underwear fetishes and a sexual component in their crimes (Floyd raped his female victims; Brudos engaged in sexual acts with his victims after killing them), were arrested for attacking a woman prior to their main serial killings, and bludgeoned their victims.