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'''Gerard John "G.J." Schaefer''' was a convicted double-murderer, suspected serial killer and published author.

Background
Gerard Schaefer was the eldest of three children. He was born in Wisconsin and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and did not get along with his father, who was a drinker and a womanizer; Gerard believed that both his parents, Gerard Sr. and Doris, favored his sister over him; he later described himself as the illegimate product of a forced marriage. The Schaefers moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and joined the local yachting and country clubs. They later divorced. Gerard proved to be very disturbed when he was young. He would steal womens' underwear, fantasize about dying and even tie himself to trees because it aroused him sexually. He admitted later in life that he also killed animals, hunting in the Everglades and shooting animals that couldn't be consumed, and cross dressed, though he claimed that he did the latter in order not to be drafted into the Vietnam War. He met his girlfriend, Cindy, when he was 14 and the three were in a relationship for three years in spite of their unorthodox sex life; Gerard would make her take part in roleplay fantasies in which he tore off her clothes and "raped" her. In 1963, she broke up with him. In adulthood, Gerard tried to become both a Roman Catholic priest and a teacher, but failed in both professions because of his unstable personality. He married in 1968, but divorced after two years, his wife citing cruelty as reason. He eventually set his mind on becoming a police officer and did get a job as a such, in spite of the fact that he failed his psychological test when he applied. He was soon fired for using personal information about female traffic offenders to ask them out for dates. He then moved to Martin County and got another law enforcement job, eventually becoming a Deputy Sheriff.

Murders, Capture and Death
On July 20, 1972, Schaefer first attempted murder. Using his authority as a police officer, he convinced hitchhikers Pamela Wells and Nancy Trotter that hitchhiking was illegal (which it wasn't). He drove them to a halfway house at which they lived and promised to drive them to the beach the next day. When they were in his car then, he drove them into the swamp and tied them to a tree at gunpoint. Just afterwards, he got a call on his police radio and had to leave them in their position. While he was gone, the girls managed to break free and run to the nearest police station (which ironically turned out to be the station at which Schaefer worked). When Schaefer returned to the tree and found them gone, he called his boss, Sheriff Crowder, and said "I've done something foolish. You're gonna be mad at me." When Crowder found out about what his Deputy had done, he promptly fired Schaefer and arrested him for unlawful imprisonment and aggravated assult. He made a plea bargain and was sentenced to a year in prison with the possibility of being released after six months. Two months after posting bail, he abducted two more female hitchhikers, Susan Place and Georgia Jessup, killed them the same way he had intended to kill Wells and Trotter, and buried their bodies. When the remains were found, Schaefer was in prison.

Modus Operandi
During Schaefer's known murders and attempted murders, his targets were teenage female hitchhikers. Both times, he abducted two at a time. Using some sort of ruse (the first time he used his position as a law enforcement officer), he got them to come with him into the swamps of Hutchinson Island, where he tied them to a tree and, in the case of Place and Jessup, butchered and killed them (exactly how he did it is unspecified in most sources), after which he buried them in the area.

Known Victims

 * July 21, 1972: Pamela Wells, 18, and Nancy Trotter, 17
 * September 27, 1972: Susan Place, 17, and Georgia Jessup, 16

Possible Victims

 * Barbara Wilcox and Collette Goodenough
 * Carmen Hallock
 * Leigh Bonadies
 * Elsie Farmer
 * Mary Briscolina