Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer

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Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was a serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

All of Brudos's murders were committed inside either his car or the basement or garage workshop of the two homes in which he resided during the period he committed his murders. Each victim was killed by strangulation; several victims were photographed before and/or after death, and three of his victims endured post-mortem dismemberment. Brudos is known to have engaged in acts of necrophilia with his victims' bodies and to have retained selective body parts of three of his victims to both demonstrate his domination and to satiate his sexual fetish for women's feet, lingerie, and shoes.

Sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment, to be served at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Brudos died of liver cancer while incarcerated at this facility in 2006.

Brudos became known as the "Lust Killer" due to the primal motive behind his crimes; he also became known as the "Shoe Fetish Slayer" due to his lifelong shoe fetishism.

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Sources:

⁠Jerry Brudos - Wikipedia⁠

⁠Jerry Brudos And The Grisly Murders Of The 'The Shoe Fetish Slayer' (allthatsinteresting.com)⁠

⁠Jerome Brudos - Victims, Family & Facts (biography.com)⁠⁠Jerry Brudos, notorious serial killer & fetishist — Escape — Crime Library⁠

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