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“The Lust Killer” Pt. 2: Jerry Brudos

2020-03-05

In many ways, Jerry Brudos wasn't in it for the kill—he was in it for the body. Between 1968 and 1969, he dressed his victims up and posed them, like living dolls. After killing them, he continued to defile and manipulate the bodies, keeping trophies for himself.

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Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of murder, necrophilia and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen Saturday may term Nineteen sixty nine- it was a good day for fishing, though the sky was grey and pregnant, with forthcoming rain snowman from them out swelled organs Long Tom River, with oxygen, rich water. It was the perfect condition for fish ripe for the catch alone angler stood in a cold, muddy water, searching for a spot to drop his line ass, his is travel down the river his eye caught some Nothing unusual a shadow just beneath the surface, something large bigger than a fish too
right to be a log of rock it bombed and twisted in the current as if caught along the river bed. Curious. The fishermen laid his pole on the bank. He wanted a closer look with. The current was too strong for him to safely wade much deeper He spotted a tree leaning out over the river, just above the strange shape, carefully inched out onto the branch peering into the murky water, He saw made him recoil with horror and discussed It was a woman. Pale was a Host with fine head fanning out into the current her skin, was greying MA old and loaded? She had clearly in dead for quite some time. Look like a corpse had been waited to the river bottom, but the piece of heavy machinery
fishermen knew this was something more sinister at us within fall, but what he didn't know was that this woman's fate was part of something bigger. She was one of a number of known victims of a prolific SIRI murderer. Jerry brood ouse and soon more by These would surface in waterways across or again I'm Gregg pulsing. This is serial killers, Parkhurst original every Monday. We dive into the minds and madness of serial killers today continuing our look into the life of Jerry Brutus, who murdered at least for women in Northwestern Oregon between one thousand nine hundred and sixty eight and one thousand nine hundred and sixty nine I'm here. With my co host Vanessa Richardson high everyone, you can find out
sounds of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcast to stream serial killer for free on Spotify, just open the app and type serial killers in the search bar at PAR cast were grateful. For you are listeners, you allow us to do what we love. Let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and Instagram at PAR cast and twitter at parking work. Last week we covered the early life of Jerry Brunos. We explored. Why He developed a violent fetish for women's clothes and choose his shall run in with the law and his first kill this week, will follow brew doses, evolution into a full, fledged serial killer, the notorious shoes at layer of the Willamette Valley To the outside observer
twenty nine year old. Jerry Brutus was an ordinary family man. He lived in a client, suburban town near Portland Oregon with his wife, Darcy and two children. Work doesn't operating engineer at a number of local radio stations, but beneath is unassuming exterior was a demand mind. Routers harbour dark, fantasy of capturing young women detaining underground and eventually killing them After their murder, he imagined using their corpses as life sized dolls. He could dress and accessories for his own pleasure. This station had been with brutal, since he was a child when he stood stealing womens shoes and undergarments from family friends and neighbors his
such an later caused him to assault women after he attacked a neighbor Brutus reportedly spent time in psychiatric ward, where he eventually learned to better control his impulses, he would still indulge them, but he became skilled at hiding. His dark proclivities eat as they festered and grew. Then, in January of nineteen, sixty eight Brutus is twisted. Fantasies came to a head when he committed his fur murder. He Lord Linda Slawson, a young encyclopedia saleswoman into the basement of his home and strangled her to death. Afterward Brutus supposed of Linda's body and origins Willem at river, but he did keep a trophy her severed foot which he used to model his collection of stolen high heeled shoes. Dns is going to do
over the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research. For this show. Thanks Greg according to researchers from the University of Bologna of all objects associated with the human body, shoe are by far the most fetish ized. In fact, sixty four percent of subjects reported a sexual preference to choose as compared to similar objects. Heels in particular are considered desirable. This is likely a result of the sexual connotations attached to high heeled shoes in popular culture. It's likely that Brunos did harbour a diagnosis shoe fetish. However, psychiatry does not conflate fetishism with sex. Violence. In fact, some scholars actively discourage the diagnosis of fetishism as a disorder, arguing that it unfairly stigmatizes private sexual preferences. Jerry Brunos, however, was an exception. His fixation,
and on women's clothing and shoes was likely an extension of his inherent desire to dominate his victims to take their most basic possessions. Their clothes and to control what they wore even in death, just as he did with Linda Slawson when Brutus tire of enacting, is fetish on windows, severed foot he tied to await and tossed it into the Willamette River. What has the last manto up his kill sunk into the waters? Depths Brutus is doing urges resurfaced Linda Slawson murder, had only wet his appetite just a few months later in nineteen, sixty eight Brutus found his next victim in Jan Susan Whitney a twenty three year old student at the University of Oregon wit me was tall and slim a pretty brewing
with blue eyes. Her friends remembered her as a trusting person, perhaps to a fault. She was known to sometimes pick up here hikers, along her long one hundred mile commute from her home make men bill to the university and Tuesday November. Twenty sixth was no different. That day, We had just finished visiting with some friends and classmates and Eugene before heading North I five four Mc Manville, but somewhere along that's of highway. The young woman vanished when Whitney failed to make it home. Her friends and family panic. Their worries immediately culminated into one question: who did she picked up just a few days later, police searched apartment noting that mail in papers had piled up on her doorstep, Whitneys com, car was later found, abandoned and arrest of parking lot, just east of the eye. Five.
The red and white Rambler showed no signs of damage and was even locked on the inside police found no blood and no sign of struggle. Forensic now since the rambler showed a minor mechanical issue that might have kept the car from starting. But aside, that irregularity authorities were stopped. It seemed ass, though Jan Whitney had gotten out of a car and vanished into thin air, but soon police received a tip in the form of an anonymous letter. It was postmarked from Albany Oregon where the vehicle was recovered and see old in a plane envelope inside the letter was written in tidy print ass. Though the author was trying to disguise their handwriting they claim to have been at the restaurant or witness car was abandoned and indicated that they witnessed her disappearance. Lieutenant Robert White and the state police turned to the
public imploring the informant to come forward, but no one did soon white real. Is that the information could have been discerned from newspaper reports at the time, but still some, thing about the letter peaked at the lieutenants interest. It's possible that brutal wrote the letter himself. Certain perpetrators do tend to seek notoriety by anonymously contacting others. A deeply felt need for admiration often will lead killers to reach out to the individuals who they believe will truly recognise the genius in their handiwork. The detectives investigating their crimes, though it was never conclusively proven. Their brunos was in fact the letter writer. He was certainly Jan Whitney's killer rivers
had stumbled upon Whitney stalled rambler while out for a drive on the eye. Five he pulled over to help, but quickly saw she wasn't alone to other Men who brought us later described as hippies were also in the car Bhutto's told police. I other that she'd, given them arrived and her car broke down and they didn't know how to fix it. Brutus offered to repair the car himself. He just needed to go home to fetch his tools, all three agreed to ride with him to Salem. Once they arrived, he met the two men off at the side of the road. Then he had Whitney drove to his house where he told her. He grabbed the tools and returned to fix the stalled gambler when they pulled up to the house. Routers told Whitney to wait in the car while he went to get the items he needed a few minutes later. He came back saying his wife wasn't home and the house was locked.
They would have to wait a few minutes for her to return brutal, slid into the back seat directly behind Whitney and made small talk. They even played a game. Whitney tried to explain to brood over how to tie a pair of shoes using only her words, no demonstration halfway through her explanation: Brunos took a leather strap and looked at around whitneys neck from behind he Yang her violently backward over the car seat, throttling her to death burritos than dragged whitneys lifeless body into his basement workshop, where he reportedly had sex with her corpse This was a new deviation for Brutus. He had previously experience sexual arousal from assaulting, raping and eventually killing live women. He had even exacted some pleasure from dressing up and posing their corpses, but up to this point he had not engaged sexually with any of his victims.
Post mortem necrophilia is commonly understood. Do involves sexual relations with or attractions to corpses. According to Catherine Rams, lend a professor of forensic psychology malignant necrophilia can arise out of a craving for absolute control. A dead body cannot fight back. It cannot resist over the course of Brutus is criminal, I've. We observe and intensifying need to exert power over his victims when treating
Five women, like dolls, proved insufficiently satiating. He progressed to killing them first, he could exact total uncontested dominance over his victims. Once life had left their limbs once brutally finnish violating whitneys body, he prompter up dressed during his collection of women's where and took photographs afterward Brutus removed one of whitneys breasts. He used the breast to form a plastic mould from which he hoped to cast a lead paperweight, but he never could get the resin recipe quite right frustrated. He disposed of Whitneys corps.
In his signature way, anchoring it to a piece of heavy machinery and dropping it into a river long after she was killed. Police continue to investigate the disappearance of Jan Whitney to Lieutenant Robert White. The nature of her disappearance seem to point to something much more sinister and then his worst fears were confirmed. Another girl witnessing coming up Harry Brutus, perfects his murderous impulses. This episode is brought to you by the completely re, imagined twenty twenty Ford escape, not to long ago, driving seemed alive simpler streets were less tested, and there were fewer too reactions on the road. Nowadays, a million different things are constantly fighting for our attention. Ford believe It's not enough to make a vehicle with technology, ivory needed Suv. That's ready for the challenges of today and can help in this.
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Free on Spotify or wherever you get your pipe guests now back to the story. In the spring of nineteen, sixty nine nineteen year old, Karen Spanker had returned from school to spend a preacher vacation at her parents, home and sailor Morgan, but on March Twenty seventh she disappeared without trace, like Jan Whitney brew doses. Second known victim sprinkler was pretty and too all with dark hair. The Oregon state freshmen came from an affluent home. Her father was a prominent better. An area and a proclivity for science ran in the family genes sprinkle intended to go to medical cool after completing her undergrad. She was lost seen on route to the Mire and Frank Department Store and Salem, where she planned to meet her
Mother for lunch in the stores restaurant. When she failed to arrive her parents launch their own amateur search. They check local hospitals, the university and culture friends all to no avail eventually the way. Reed couple notified police officers eventually located Karen Sprinklers car parked on the roof. For the mire and Frank parking garage like with Jen Whitney the vehicle was locked showed no signs of damage puzzled police placed in it. Smitten Salem area newspapers. It included a photo of parents Brinker alongside text reading. Have you seen this girl too School students in Salem saw Karen's photo and the newspaper as they read that she'd been looked at from the mire and Frank garage they were reminded. Strange encounter. They recently had there and informed police. The girls were
returning to their vehicle after shopping trip when they noticed a very tall woman lurking in the shadows. She was dressed, formerly in heels and address and was anxiously tugging at her girdle and nylons. As the girls drove up the garages exit ram. They got a closer look. The odd tall woman wasn't a woman at all, but a large man dressed in Ladys Clothing Springer was Brutus is intended victim early that morning he was driving around downtown when he spotted Take ITALY, alluring woman and many skirt, and a pair of heels, brunos followed her to the department store but unable to find her. He returned to the parking garage dejected. His plants were foiled, but just ass. He was about to get into his own car. He sought currants Brinker
Her outfit wasn't ideal, a dull, green sweater with a matching skirt and an unimpressive pair of shoes, but she was pretty with dark hair which Bruno's liked he had developed a taste, four brunettes he scanned the garage it was deserted. The opportunity was too perfect to pass up ass. Brinker made her way through the dark garage. Brutal began to follow, walking a short distance behind her, then, as he reached for the door leading to an exit staircase. British placed a MIDI hand on her, shoulder surprised, Springer, spun around and came face to face with brute us and what she believed to be a gun. It was actually a toy pistol but brutally told Springer not to scream, or he would hurt her
was immediately compliant. She repeatedly reassured him that she would stay quiet if he didn't hurt her burritos, like that delectable sense of power course the wrist mengs. He had sprinklers delicate life in his powerful hands and he relished it. He escorted spanker to his own vehicle and drove her to his house, when they arrived, the house was empty, just how he liked it. Darcy Brutus had been spending more and more time outside the home with the kids. After finding photos of her husband, dressed in women's clothing. She dealt with his increasing eccentricities by minimizing their time together, slipping away had any opportunity she could find home alone brutal. Let's break
into his basement workshop at gunpoint, where he proceeded to rape, her afterward he forced to dress up in his collect. Women's garments and shoes and took pictures. Brutus was in his element, he had a human doll, the perfect plaything imprisoned in the subterranean torture chamber totally at his mercy. His fantasies had come to full fruition when he had finished toying with Brinker, he tied her hands behind her back and placed a rope around her neck. He then attached to hoist fixed to the basement sailing. He asked Springer if the rope was too tight. She said yes, he was glad he gave the rope three swift, poles, lifting parents Brinker from the ground she kicked and struggled at her, buys until the life left her body
as with Jan Whitney Brunos, then violated her corpse. He did this repeatedly over the course of several hours. Even after Darcy and the children were turned home hours later. He reportedly went upstairs for dinner before returning to the basement to defile sprinklers corpse, at least one. Time he been removed, both of her breasts at night as Darcy and the children slept Brunos carried sprinklers body out o the basement and drove to a bridge. Spanning the Long Tom River between core values and Eugene
by the time he arrived. It was after two, a m. He Titus spare a cylinder engine part just blinkers corpse, carried her to the edge of the bridge and dropped her into the swiftly moving water below by this point, Brutus is criminal. Signature with solidified criminologists Scott Bond defines the signature as a pattern of behaviour. That's not necessarily required to commit a particular crime, but one that serves the psychological or pathological needs of the criminal in cereal. Killing signatures tend to remain the same across offences. The emerge from an offenders core fantasies which are often developed long before their first kill by age. Thirty Brutus his signature, rarely deviated from the same script. He kidnapped a young woman detained her in his basement, raped her and then dressed and posed. Her for
photographs afterward. He would almost always kill her rape, her corpse and manipulate the body like a doll. Finally, he removed a flesh. Trophy and disposed of the remains in a local river, but not every attempted kill when, according to brew doses, his plan. One afternoon in April of nineteen, sixty nine rootless was prowling the campus of Portland State University. When he noticed a young woman, twenty four world Sharon. Would she was leaving the history Depart Then, where she worked as a secretary would a lot. On her mind that day, the mother of two was set to divorce. Her husband of seven years
At the same time, she was also battling a middle ear infection as well as adjusting to newly prescribed contact lenses. Her hearing that day was not at its best. Her vision was blurry and her thoughts were occupied. Little did brutal snow. That heat spotted would at her most vulnerable brood else. The consummate predator, perhaps sensed her disorientation he followed, would from a short distance, plotting his move. It was broad daylight on a crowded college camp as after all, He had to be smart, as would walk to a staff parking structure tucked away in a corner of the university property. The crowds thinned students siphoned off into various,
buildings as afternoon lectures began door slammed left and right voices died. Suddenly, wood was alone or associate thought would sons to prickling on the back of her neck. She had a vague sense of being followed. Instinct told her to avoid the parking spot. Cheers, dark deserted stairway. Instead, she took a sharp turned toward a well lit ground level entrance. She picked up speed while her gut earned, with an unnamed nervous energy. Mere step from the garage entrance, she felt a heavy tab on her shoulder. She turned her head to face the penetrating stare. Of Jerry Brunos later she told an rule author of the book Lust killer. I could sense the
full, and I knew I was going to die. Brutal stuck to a script, brandishing is toy pistol. He instructed would not to scream or he'd shoot, but would refuse to play brew doses game at the top of her lungs. She screamed no would began to back away but Brutus lunged for her point. Petite woman into a half Nelson and dragging her to the ground. Her head locked between his arms would cakes and screamed fighting for her life when brutally put a hand over her mouth to muffle her she bit down as hard as she could. Drawing blood in a panic, her jaws fastened, as Brutus yowled in pain. She not release his hand, Brutus grabbed, would by the hair and then with his hands still caught between her
Keith he slammed her head against the concrete. He proceeded to beat the woman with savage ferocity. Even ass. Her skull was pummelled would clamped her John tightly down. I'm brute us his hand as It's already blurred vision began to cloud. She saw car approach from the corner of her eye Only then did her job muscles spasm, releasing brutal, is bloodied hand from her teeth. Immediately. Bhutto's picked up a toy gun and fled the scene would realized. Her attackers motive had changed mid fight. Brood, was no longer interested in abducting her. He was more concerned with freeing himself from the vice grip upper jaw. Soon police arrived on the scene, not realising the connection between this assault and the women who had been reported.
Missing months earlier, sharing would was bruised and battered but alive. She was one of brute us as few failed abductions, but if anything it was his failure to subdue Sharon that drove him to quickly find another victim to take her place. The very next day a Ten year old identified as Gloria Jean Smith was walking Longsome railroad tracks near her home in Salem, when Brunos lunged from the shadows, the girl was saved by her own lightning, fast reflexes, ass, soon ass. She saw the hulking man she shrieked and ran for help escaping by the skin of her teeth. Now, foiled, twice premisses desire to kill, came to a full boil on aid twenty third twenty two year old, Linda Sally drove to the nearby Lloyd Centre Mall to shop for her boyfriend's birthday, gift, petite
De and driving a bright red Volkswagen bug. She immediately caught brutal, says attention so ass. She Parker log. On the sixth floor of the malls parking garage and walked inside to do her shopping brunos waited inside the garage for her to return is typical, hide out, but this I'm Brutus had a brand new game and Linda Sally, would Play along coming up Harry Brunos claims his fourth victim. Now back to the story by nineteen sixty, nine, Jerry Brunos had murdered three young women and organs, Willimot Valley, Linda Slawson, Jan Whitney and Karen Sprinkler, but when his attempts to abduct his fourth victim failed twice, he was determined to make his next murder count soon Brutus found his next victim twenty two year old, Linda safely in the parking grass
the local mall and as safely it inside a to shop for a gift for her boyfriend's birthday. Brutus waited for her to return, later ass. She walked to her car, her arms full of bags Brutus approached her, but this time he tried a slightly different tactic, instead of his usual toy gun. He brandished a phoney security badge and told, sadly, that he was taking her into custody on just suspicion of shoplifting. Despite her assurances that she hadn't stolen anything and had the sales receipts to prove it grew dose insisted she accompany him to a Portland police station. Sadly went willingly and followed him too car according to brood us. She asked no questions even ass. They drove well beyond the Portance city limits and into Salem Authority, can be a powerful influence and compelling submission in his face,
experiments on obedience and control. Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram found, but humans are likely to go to great lengths to appease authoritative figures. Even when a directive goes against an individual's better instincts or moral compass, Milgram discovered that most subjects are still likely to follow orders anyway. In this case, it comes as no surprise that Linda Sally would so readily trust. A man put, himself forward as a civil authority, even though he didn't drive and official vehicle, and even when they drove well beyond Portland City limits into Salem Sally didn't voice her doubts when Brutus pulled up to his suburban home and entered the garage. Sadly still said, nothing for Brutus is plan could
I've been going more swimmingly until suddenly, it wasn't Darcy whom he had believed to be out with the children ambled onto the front, porch as Brunos, walked out of the garage he held up a hand to Sally still in the car morning her not to move or make a sound Brutus later claimed, but Darcy couldn't see Sally, so he simply ordered his wife back into the house but when Darcy complain that dinner was already ready, burritos relented, he assured dark that he'd be their momentarily. Then he returned to the car and bound Sally with some rope. Brutus less Sally alone in the car, while he ate during time she reportedly did not try to escape and after Brutus finished supper. Darcy left for the evening
while their regular babysitter came over to watch the children. The sitter never bothered proved us when he locked himself in his workshop. Thus he was able to sneak Sally into the basement where he throttled her with the same leather strap he used to kill Jan wit me. It was at this point that sadly reportedly began to fight back. She was an athlete, a regular swimmer and though petite in stature, powerfully built, but Brutus doses, brute strength. Eventually, one out and Sally asphyxiated Brunos proceeded to have sex with her court but he was enraged that the seemingly quiet and compliant young woman had decided to resist him. He wanted to punish her defiance. Brutus hung sallies body from a hoist in the basement, sailing and stripped off the rest of her clothes. Then he inserted to me
those into each side of her rib cage. Finally, the skilled electrician attached to electric leads to the needles and put them into an outlet Brutus hoped to see sallies corpse convulse with electricity, but to his disappointment the experiment only lightly and her flesh Brunos, kept sallies body for a day and night to have sex with level. This time he didn't take a trophy. He reportedly did not like the shape of her breasts when Brutus, finished he tied yet another engine part two Linda sallies body and watched as it dropped sinking into the depths of the Long Tom River. But little did brute us now that soon, Linda sallies body would float too weeks after the murder of Linda Sally, her body found its way. The rivers surface, where it was discovered by fishermen
voting in the Long Tom River, and just two days later, Karen Sprinklers corpse was found fifty feet away. Her breasts cut out the cavities filled with brown paper towels when the tenant Jim Stovall heard news at the two bodies recovered from the long time. He ended baby race to the scene. There he observed under, novel similarities between the two dead women, both were weighed down with engine parts and both were around the same age and physique autopsies revealed yet another connection. Both Springer and Sally shared a cause of death, traumatic asphyxiation taking into account these parallels as well as the missing women in the region. Stovall began to connect the dots he suspected that link
Slawson and Jan Whitby had suffered the same fate as Brinker and Sally Ann, something it has got told him. Even more bodies were floating undiscovered in organs, waterways,. Suddenly it dawned on Stovall, he had a serial killer. On his hands. Stovall in Oregon State Lisa tenant, Jean Dirty agreed to call leading investigation into these killings and began by overseeing the dredging belong Tom River, but after several days the search was suspect. There were no more bodies to be found in that part of the valley, so they continued elsewhere. The investigation waged on Jerry, Hebrew followed the discovery of bodies through local newspapers. He revelled in the fact that he baffled the authorities he felt totally in control. Now a feeling he'd been chasing his entire
life riding the sensation. Brutus became bolder, and in May, nineteen sixty nine. He began in dorm rooms at Oregon, State University sing random calls to some of the female dormitories on campus Brutus tried to solicit dates. He told the girls that answer that, He was a Vietnam that hoping the law I would impress them into accepting it actually worked, miraculously the art brutal, was able to arrange several blind dates through this cold calling method, but some are more suspicious than others. One co had contacted Lieutenant dirty after she'd been on a date with brutal she told him. She met the self proclaimed war veteran in the lounge of her dormitory, where they talked about her studies. She didn't recall the conversation to be particularly sparkling But one bizarre interaction haunted her. The young
until dirty that at some point during the date Brunos reached over and place to hand on her shoulder, he began to massage it and quaint strangely demanded that she pretend to be sad. Then he reportedly told her to think of the two girls found in the long term. River, he said that was an awful thing that happened to them dead. If that weren't beery enough before saying Goodbye It was reportedly asked the woman why she had agreed to meet him. How did you know I would bring you back home and not take you to the river and strongly investigators were shocked. Could this be the killer? They were looking for dirty asked the student what the man looked like and she described him for the lieutenant Ta
all close to six feet: heavy, but not fat. Soft around the middle with reddish blonde thinning hair, he was pale and comforted freckles dirty, took down the details and then urged the student to phone the police, if she ever heard from him again routers his friend. Rules would be its downfall. When informative darkies conversation with the student at organ state, Jim Stovall, was reminded of something the attempted abduction of glory. A gene Psmith after Brunos tried to grab Smith from the train tracks, the fifteen year old had immediately phoned the police Smith described her assailant as large, nearly six feet and, frankly, suddenly, after months without a lead, the police had a convincing profile police instructed Brutus is would be college date to call them if the freckled man ever contacted
damn sure enough on May twenty fifth nineteen sixty nine, the young woman gotta call back she and media we recognised brew doses, halting hesitant voice and willed herself to stay calm. He asked her out that night for Coca COLA and a little conversation the student told brutal. She wasn't immediately available. She wash your hair, but she could meet him in the dormitory lounge. In forty five minutes he agreed she hung up the phone. And immediately dial the police. The Oregon state pity flew into action, plain clothes officers, position selves and the dorm lounge, and waited sue a man matching the description arrived tall hulking at least Thirty years old, Jerry Brutus was
unfazed when the office is approached him and what they began asking questions he delivered us answers calmly. He lived in Ella manages come by the university after moving a friend's near by long. They were out of town and Brutus was just dropping in to check the college out. The police knew he was lying about his reason for being there, but they had no legal basis to arrest him, but now they had his name. Investigate dug up Brutus history of institutionalization. They discovered he had a history of sexual violence towards women as far back as adolescence, as continued to review brew doses record. Found more and more coincidences as police drove into public records. They found that Brutus either had lived or worked near the location
where the missing women were last seen during the times they had disappeared. The circumstantial evidence was enough to justify a visitor. Brutus is home for some follow up questions, while their asylum police, detective, Jerry Frazier, got a glimpse inside Brutus is garage and spotted a bit of rope. The knots were distinctive, it looked as though they might match. Ligature marks left on some of the victims bodies still police slacked enough physical evidence to arrest brood over for the murders in an ideal world. They could tell him for a while and wait for him to slip up, but time is of the essence. Brunos new detectives were sniffing around. He could run at any moment on May twenty, eight nineteen sixty nine at last ditch effort to find evidence that might point to the murders police served. Search warrants on Brutus is
two vehicles, because breeders, how the interior scrubbed they were unable to pull substantial evidence, but it was enough to spook him to do These later on May thirtieth a team staking out the brutal residents in full, Stovall and dirty that the entire family had left their home and heading north. On me, I five freeway, coincidentally, earlier that day the two lieutenants had secured in IRAN torrent for Bruno says: assault of Gloria Jean Smith, Stovall and already had to act fast. They couldn't lose Brutus over the border into Washington, state or even worse. Canada, a troopers put out an ape. He on the Brutus, his vehicle and later
evening. They located the family on the eye five, when police pulled the car over Darcy Brutus was behind the wheel. Her children, seated in the back brunos at first blush, was no are to be seen, but is dirty. Shined is flashlight into the rear. The car he saw me I mass hidden beneath the blanket he said to the king, ring Brunos you're under arrest get out of the car when Brutus booked into Salem County jail, he was stripped guards were shocked to find under his ordinary work clothes, he was wearing a pair of sheer women's undergarments Brutus explained he needed special underwear due to sensitive skin detectives for Speechless Stovall deployed a good cop approach, as he interrogated Brunos starting small, getting him to talk about the type of women he was it
practice to and his interest in women's shoes from there they progressed conversations about Brutus is childhood, and his first petty thefts lulled into a sense of security. The confessions came, flooding outer, Brutus, mouth, seemingly out of nowhere. He confessed to hitting Linda Slawson over the head. While she tried to sell him instead of encyclopedias and over the course of several hours, Brunos confessed to the murders of Jan Whitney, Karen Sprinkler and Linda Sally on June fourth, nineteen sixty nine thirty year, brute was arranged for the murder of parents, Brinker to which he pleaded not guilty. By reason of insanity. He was subsequently examined by a team of states, Psychiatry s they determined he possessed an above average Iq Andy.
TIM seen. However, they diagnosed Bruno Sazen anti social personality, manifested by fetishism trans best, ISM exhibition, ism, voyeurism and especially sadism, Just weeks later, on June, twenty seventh Brutus was charged with the first degree, murders subject, Whitney Linda Sally Ann parents, Brinker and ultimately he was handed three consecutive life sentences. Prison life for Brutus was not easy. Aside from being cut off. From his family on the outside. He was not popular on the inside. He was reportedly assaulted, both physically and sexually by fellow inmates. Multiple too, between one thousand nine hundred and sixty nine and one thousand nine hundred and seventy one up until one thousand nine hundred and seventy seven. His attorneys fought hard to reverse his conviction in state appellate courts
This is final appeal was rejected on May twenty fifth nineteen, seventy seven, when sixty year old, brute elsewhere, Finally, up for parole, he was denied due to the seriousness of these crimes. Seven years later, on March twenty Eightth, two thousand six Jerry Brunos, died in prison from a particularly aggressive case of liver cancer. He was sixty seven at the time, his death. He was the longest serving inmate in the Oregon Department of corrections. Brutus persona would live on an infamy an analytical subject of FBI agent, Johnny Douglas largely credited as the Father of criminal profiling
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