Famous Serial Killers — The Shoe Fetish Slayer Jerome Brudos
In my novels, I write about serial killers. Sometimes I let real murderers inspire myself. I write about these killers here now. Today I introduce you to Jerome Brudos, who became known as Shoe Fetish Slayer.
Life
Jerome Brudos was born on 31 January 1939 in a small town in South Dacota. He had an older brother. When he was little, his parents often moved with him. He had an extremely disturbing relationship with his mother.
She would have preferred to have a daughter and let little Jerome feel that she rejected him. She forced him to put on girls’ clothes to humiliate him.
But his mother’s vicious excesses made it impossible for him to assume his own gender identity. At the age of five, he found a pair of high-heeled shoes on a dump. He took them home with him and tried them on.
When his mother caught him with it, she beat him up terribly and burned the shoes.
So Brudos grew up with an irrepressible hatred for his mother and years had the desire to take revenge on her one day.
He kept his shoe fetish and continued to live it out. Among other things, he stole shoes from his primary school teacher, and as he grew up, he kept taking shoes, but also underwear from women in the neighborhood.
This fetish was accompanied by increasingly intense fantasies of violence against women. He also began to put these fantasies into practice early in his teenage years.
So he stalked some women first until he went over to knocking down some of them or choking them to unconsciousness before stealing their shoes and clothes.
At seventeen, he forced a woman with a knife to undress. Then he photographed the naked woman.
He was then sent to a psychiatric hospital for nine months, where the doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
He then managed to graduate from high school and join the army. There, however, he was released after a short time when his bizarre tendencies were discovered.
Finally, Buros married and became the father of two children. He had his young wife entirely under his control. She did everything he told her. So she was not allowed to leave the house without asking permission. He also forced her to wear high heels all the time.
She was also forbidden to enter the basement and attic.
Friends and acquaintances interviewed later described Brudos as a caring family man who neither smoked nor drank.
The murders
In 1968, when Jerome Buros was already married and father of two, he committed his first murder. He now lived in Portland with his small family.
A young woman knocked on his door. She had simply been wrong about the house, but this mistake had sealed her fate. Buros dragged her into the house, drove her into the garage of the home, and strangled her.
Then he dressed her in stolen high heels and underwear. Finally, he cut off a foot from her, which he kept in his freezer, along with the pumps in which the foot was still stuck.
He disposed of the body in a nearby river.
Brudos attacked his next victim while completely wrapped in women’s clothes. He also brought this victim to his garage, where he forced her to put on his collection of stolen underwear and shoes. He photographed them, raped, and strangled them several times.
Finally, he hanged her. Even after her death, he had sex with her lifeless body again. As the climax of the gruesome ritual, he cut off the body’s breasts.
This unfortunate sacrifice also ended in the river in which Brudos had already disposed of the first corpse.
The third victim fell into Brudos’s hands when a twenty-three-year-old woman near Salem had a car breakdown. Brudos stopped and offered her help. When she got into the car with him, he strangled her and had sex with the body on the spot.
He then took her to his garage, where he hung her up. He raped the body over and over again for several days and photographed it again and again.
He also cut off a breast from this victim before finally disposing of it in the river. This time he threw away the foot of the first victim along with the new body. The foot was now decayed and no longer useful to Jerome Brudos.
Victim number four ended up like the first three in his garage. This time, however, he refrained from severing a breast. Instead, he inserted a power cord into her body and tried to make her “jump,” according to later statements. But that didn’t work to his regret.
After this fourth murder, Brudos tried it on a few other women but had no more success.
Arrest and conviction
One of his kidnappings became Brudos’ downfall. A woman he had tried to strangle contacted the police.
After the description of the incident, the police were convinced that the perpetrator had to be the long-sought Shoe Fetish Slayer.
The woman had contact with Brudos before the crime and therefore had his telephone number.
The police got the woman to arrange another meeting with her tormentor. They had to catch him red-handed to have something on him.
The woman agreed and contacted Brudos. When he agreed to a meeting, the police sent a female officer to the meeting as a decoy so as not to endanger the witness.
He was arrested when he arrived at the meeting place. His house and garage were searched. There, the police found numerous pieces of evidence that heavily burdened Brudos.
Most ambiguous were the numerous photos found in his improvised photo lab in his garage. On them were his victims — first still alive, then later in various stages of decay.
Based on the overwhelming evidence, Brudos confessed a total of four murders. In court, however, only three murders and several assaults could be proved against him, since one of his victims was missing every trace. Also, photos of her were not found in his collection.
Brudos was sentenced to life camp imprisonment.
During his time in prison, Brudos had been abused again and again by fellow prisoners and once even raped anally with an object.
He died in prison in 2006.
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPbrHFq8s1w
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Brudos
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