The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton

Author:Michael Newton [Newton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, Murder, General, Serial Killers
ISBN: 9780816069873
Google: DwNVbOcTncwC
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

SCHAEFER, Gerard John

on April 20, he was fired. Explanations vary: Chief erdale. Susan’s parents said the girls were last seen at Bernard Scott later said that Schaefer didn’t have “an her house, leaving with an older man named “Gerry ounce of common sense,” while ex-FBI Agent ROBERT

Shepherd” on their way to “play guitar” at a nearby RESSLER reports that Schaefer was disciplined for run-beach. They never came back, but Lucille Place had ning female traffic violators through the department’s noted Schaefer’s license number, along with a descrip-computer, obtaining personal information, and later tion of his blue-green Datsun. It was March 25, 1973, calling them for dates.

before sluggish investigators traced the plate number Whatever the cause of his firing, Schaefer needed a back to Schaefer, by which time he was already in jail job. Near the end of June, he signed on with the Martin for assaulting teenage girls.

County Sheriff’s Department, pulling up stakes and Schaefer denied any contact with Place and Jessup, moving to Stuart, Florida. He had been on the job less but the case began unraveling on April 1, 1973, when than a month when he made a “dumb mistake” that skeletal remains were found on Hutchinson Island by would cost him his career and his freedom.

three men collecting aluminum cans. Four days later, On July 21, 1972, Schaefer picked up two hitchhik-the victims were identified from dental records. Susan ers, 17-year-old Pamela Wells and 18-year-old Nancy Place had been shot in the jaw, detectives remarking Trotter, on the highway near a local beach. He told that evidence from the crime scene indicated the two them (falsely) that hitchhiking was illegal in Martin girls were “tied to a tree and butchered.” On April 7, County, then drove them back to a halfway house police searched the home of Schaefer’s mother, where where they were staying. Schaefer offered to meet them Gerard had personal items stored in a spare bedroom.

next morning, off duty, and drive them to the beach Evidence recovered in the search included a stash of himself. The girls agreed, but instead of taking them to women’s jewelry, 100-plus pages of writing and the beach on July 22, Schaefer drove them to swampy sketches depicting mutilation-murders of young Hutchinson Island off State Road A1A. There, he women, newspaper clippings about two women missing started making sexual remarks, then drew a gun and told the girls he planned to sell them as “white slaves”

to a foreign prostitution syndicate. Forcing them out of the car, he bound both girls and left them balanced on tree roots with nooses around their necks, at risk of hanging if they slipped and fell. Schaefer left them then, promising to return shortly, but the girls escaped in his absence and reached the highway, where they flagged down a passing police car. They had no problem identifying their assailant, since Schaefer had told them his name.

By that time, Schaefer had discovered their escape and telephoned Sheriff Richard Crowder. “I’ve done something foolish,” Schaefer told his boss.

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