The Shoe Fetish Slayer: Inside Jerry Brudos' House of Horrors
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When a 19-year-old encyclopedia saleswoman knocked on the wrong door in Portland, Oregon in January 1968, she walked into the nightmare that would define one of America's most disturbing serial killers. Jerry Brudos looked like everyone's quiet neighbor, a hardworking electrician with a wife and kids. But behind the locked door of his garage workshop, he was living out fantasies so twisted they'd shock even seasoned FBI profilers. This is the story of how a childhood obsession with high-heeled shoes escalated into murder, necrophilia, and the kind of trophy collection that still makes detectives sick decades later. Four young women lost their lives to a man who saw them as nothing more than objects to fulfill his darkest compulsions. Welcome to the horrifying world of The Shoe Fetish Slayer.
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| 1:00.7 | In 1968, a young woman selling encyclopedias, door-to-door, |
| 1:05.8 | knocked on the wrong house in Portland, Oregon. |
| 1:08.7 | The man who answered seemed interested in buying her books. He invited |
| 1:12.8 | her inside his garage. She was never seen alive again. What happened in that garage over the |
| 1:19.4 | next 16 months would become one of the most disturbing cases in American crime history. So let's talk about Jerry Brutus. |
| 1:51.5 | On the surface, this guy looked like the definition of ordinary. |
| 1:55.8 | Born on January 31st, 1939, in Webster, South Dakota, he grew up and became an electrician, got married to a woman |
| 2:03.6 | named Darcy, had two kids, lived in a regular house in Salem, Oregon. If you passed him on the street, |
| 2:09.5 | you wouldn't look twice at him. And that's precisely the problem, because Jerry Brutus committed |
| 2:15.3 | the kidnapping, rape, and murder of four young women between |
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