Gerald Schaefer

Gerald John Schaefer is a American Serial killer which has the effect of having prevailed whereas he followed the occupation of police officer. This former assistant sheriff was shown to have killed 34 women under terrible conditions, but was finally condemned only for the only murders of Susan Place (17 years) and of Georgia Jessup (16 years) to the prison to perpetuity (and not with the capital punishment, since at the time of its lawsuit, in 1973, the capital punishment had been abolished with the the United States).

It was the subject of an interview on behalf of the French specialist in the serial killers Stephan Bourgoin which, although accustomed to these situations since having met the majority of the large contemporary criminals of this type, describes it, under outside débonnaires, like leaving the feeling be " the evil absolu" (sic).

Schaefer used its quality of police officer to delude with the young hitch-hikers whom it attached, sometimes in wood, in order to torture them, setting out again even to work peacefully before returning to complete its victims. One day whereas he tortured two young girls in a forest, its radio of service called it. It left on mission while thinking of returning afterwards for " to finish what it had with faire". During time, the two young girls succeeded in releasing their bonds and alerted the helps. Imprisoned in Starke, the prison of State of Florida, it was found died in its cell on December 3rd, 1995, stabbed of 40 stabs to the head and the nape of the neck by a fellow-prisoner, probably for a banal argument in connection with a coffee cup…

It is evoked like supporting character of the novel of James Ellroy a Killer on the road (1986).

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