The Shoe Fetish Slayer
Review by Kim Cantrell
Before serial killers were even “serial” (generically referred to as “mass murderers”), Jerome Brudos was collecting women’s shoes and undergarments.
And when that wasn’t enough, he collected the women themselves!
In Lust Killer, award winning true crime author Ann Rule does a great job of detailing the crimes of sexual deviant Brudos as he escalates from stealing women’s undergarments off clotheslines to raping his victims’ lifeless bodies repeatedly.
His crimes are so demented that even seasoned detectives (and true crime readers!) blanch at the things Brudos did to his victims; and his lack of remorse when confessing to them.
Rule also gives readers a glimpse into the affects of a pervert’s crimes on his family; specifically, Brudos wife, Darcie.
This young lady was tried and convicted by neighbors and others simply on the grounds of “guilt by association.”
Despite suffering the humiliation of her husband’s crimes, coping with the stress of knowing these things occurred within feet of her backdoor where her children played, and figuring out how to start over as a single woman with no income and two small children; she was charged as an accessory based on blantant lies of gossipy old bitty whose sister lived next door to the Brudoses.
Fortunately, a jury did not convict and Darcie was reunited with her children to begin their lives again.
A very interesting read. A bit tedious in places, but overall an excellent piece of true crime.
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Updates from this book:
Jerome “Jerry” Brudos died while still incarcerated in March 2006.
