(mentions of murder and sex crimes to follow)
Jerry Brudos had a
difficult relationship with his mother from a very young age. He had been a disappointment
to her since the day he was born, as she had always wanted a daughter.
She already had a boy and Jerry was an
unwanted second.
Young Jerry Brudos
found himself at the receiving end of a barrage of cold and abusive treatment
as a child and was moved around from place to place, unable to ever really feel
settled.
Jerry Brudos.
(Image source: murderpedia)
He would eventually grow up to be serial killer and necrophiliac
dubbed “the shoe fetish slayer” by the media, and would go on to kill 4 women
in the mid to late sixties.
By the time he was a
teenager he was attacking women in the street to steal their footwear as well
as stealing underwear from girls in the neighborhood. He also forced young
women to strip at knife-point, taking photographs as souvenirs of his crimes.
Despite being in and
out of hospitals for evaluation and having been arrested for various sexual
assaults, Brudos found himself a teenage bride. She would not escape his
fantasies and would be made to walk around wearing nothing but a pair of heels
while her new husband played photographer.
His obsession with shoes
started very early, at the age of five, when he found a discarded pair of women’s
heels and took them home. Although his angry mother insisted that he dispose of
them, he rejected the command and kept them in secret, walking around in them until
he was caught and punished.
