” Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer ” – Bizarre Buffet Podcast
Jerry Brudos, The Shoe Fetish Slayer.
Jerry Brudos was born in Webster, South Dakota, as the younger of two sons. His mother had wanted a girl and was very displeased that she had another son instead,[2] and constantly subjected him to emotional and physical abuse.[3] As a child, Brudos and his family would move into different homes in the Pacific Northwest, before settling in Salem, Oregon.
Brudos had a fetish for women’s shoes from the age of 5,[4] after playing with stiletto heeled shoes at a local junkyard. He reportedly attempted to steal the shoes of his first grade teacher. Brudos also had a fetish for women’s underwear and claimed that he would steal underwear from female neighbors as a child.[3] He spent his teen years in and out of psychotherapy and psychiatric hospitals.
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” Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer ” – Episode Credits
Hosted By Mark Tauriello , Jen Wilson , & , Marc Bluestein
Original Episode Art By Mark Tauriello
Episode Concept By Jen Wilson
Episode Production By Marc Bluestein
S2E42
Released On August 22nd, 2021
Episode Show Notes
QUESTION: What are your thoughts on feet? Other people’s feet? Feet in general.
Jerry Brudos- Early Years
- Born in South Dakota in 1939 and he was the youngest of two.
- His mother wanted a girl, and resented the fact that he was a boy.
- Jerry was subjected to physical, mental, and emotional abuse because of it.
- He had a shoe fetish at the ripe age of 5.
- He found stiletto heels at a local junkyard
- Even attempted to steal the shoes of his first grade teacher.
- He also reportedly had a women’s underwear fetish, and reportedly stole underwear from his female neighbors.
- Because of this, he was in and out of psychotherapy and psychiatric hospitals.
Jerry Brudos- Teen Years
- In his teens, he began to stalk local women, knocking them unconscious, and flee with their shoes.
- When he was 17, he abducted and beaten a young woman threatening to stab her if she didn’t adhere to his sexual demands.
- After he was arrested, he was taken to the Oregon Psychiatric Ward where he resided for 9 months.
- There it was discovered that his sexual fantasies stemmed from his hatred for his mother.
- Diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- At 22 years old, he married a young 17 year old, Darcie, and fathered two children.
- Asked her to do housework around the house in nothing but high heels while he took pictures.
- At this time, he started complaining of migraines and having “blackouts”.
- His blackouts consisted of him relieving his symptoms by going on night time raids to steal shoes and laced undergarments.
- He also experienced a “transvestite period”
- This consisted of him using the female persona as a form of escape mechanism.
- THEN THE MURDERS BEGAN……..
Jerry Brudos- “The Shoe Fetish Slayer” and “The Lust Killer”.
- Jerry would store the shoes, underwear, and bodies of his victims in his garage.
- He set up an intercom that his wife would have to ring to enter.
- Jerry strangled and murdered 4 women and attempted to abduct 2.
- He would dress up in high heels, and masturbate after committing the crime.
The Victims
- Linda Slawson
- 19 year old encyclopedia saleswoman who knocked on his door in January 1968.
- Lured her into the basement, knocked her out with a wood plank, and strangled her.
- Dressed her in different stolen undergarments, stolen heels and then put her in provocative poses.
- He sawed off her left foot.
- Put it in the freezer and kept it as a model for his heels.
- DIsposed her body in a river.
- Jan Susan Whitney
- 23 year old motorist
- Her car broke down on the Oregon interstate November 1968.
- Jerry offered to give her a ride to his place so she could call a tow truck.
- While in the car, he strangled her with a leather strap and raped her.
- He had the body hanging from a pulley in his garage for a few days, where he dressed her, took pictures of her, and engaged in sexual activities.
- Cut off a breast and made a resin mold which he used of a paperweight.
- Threw her into the same river as Linda Slawson along with Linda’s hacked left foot.
- Karen Sprinker
- 18 year old held at gunpoint infront of a department store March 1969.
- Jerry was dressed in women’s clothes during this attack
- He made her try on different garments, strangled her in his basement, and did the same thing to her he did to poor Jan.
- Her breast was also made into a paperweight and disposed into the same river as Linda and Jan.
- Linda Salee
- 22 year old abducted from outside of a shopping mall April 1969.
- Did ALL OF THE SAME THINGS, but did not cut off her breast, because they were “too pink”.
- He drove an electrical current through to make them “jump” ???
- Disposed of her body in the same river.
THE AFTERMATH
- In May of 1969, a fisherman found both Karen and Linda’s bodies in the river.
- Police asked local University students nearby of suspicious activities.
- They were lead to Jerry when a female noted he called her several times to ask for a date. He gave her the wrong address which lead to suspicions.
- Jerry’s garage was discovered, and the pulley he hung his victims on were discovered.
- Jerry was arrested and pled guilty.
- Sentenced for life in Oregon State Penitentary. Pled guilty to 3 first degree murders, though he confessed to four, but didn’t have photo evidence of Linda Slawson.
- Only her foot was discovered.
- While in prison, he had STACKS of women’s shoe catalogues in his prison cell.
- He wrote to these companies asking for them stating that it was his substitute pornography.
- Died in prison in 2006 from liver cancer.
- Ted Levine who played Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs”, based his character off of Jerry Brudos.
- You could also see him in the Netflix Series “Mindhunter” season one episodes 7 and 8 portrayed by Happy Anderson.
