Jerry Brudos: The Lust Killer

Jerry (Jerome) Brudos was born on January 31,1939, in Webster, South Dakota. He was known as the Lust Killer. His mother name was Eileen, and his father name was Henry. Jerry had a strained relationship with his overbearing mother. Brudos found a pair of women’s high heels in the junkyard. When Jerry’s mother found out he was wearing high heels. She took them away, and destroyed them. When he was five years old. That marked the beginning of his fascination with women’s fashion footwear. He stole women’s underwear form neighboring homes. He spent his teenager years in and out of psychotherapy and state hospitals. As a teenager Jerry began to stalk local women. He would knock down doors, or choke women unconscious. At the age of seventeen, he dug a hole, and kept girls as sex slaves. Shortly after that he was taken to a psychiatric ward of Oregon State Hospital for nine months. Jerry and his wife Darcie Meztler had a daughter named Megan. Jerry finally got a job as a technician at a West Salem Electronics firm. Him and his wife had a second child, but he wasn’t allowed to be in their son’s life.

He face abuse from his mother. When he was seventeen. He was sent to a psychiatric center. Jerry was denied the insanity plea.by forensic psychologist who determined him sane. He had an antisocial personality disorder. He was diagnosed with borderline schizophrenic. He was also a necrophilia. Meaning that he a sexual attraction to dead bodies. He attributed his sexual previsions, and attacks to get revenge against his mother and women in general. He developed a dark fantasy life to compensate for his rough childhood, and he began to act on his disturbed