The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego by R. Barri Flowers

Author:R. Barri Flowers [Flowers, R. Barri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, true crime, serial killers, killer couples, true accounts, nonfiction, kidnap, criminology
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
Published: 2011-07-22T09:01:23+00:00

Rhonda Martin Scheffler

Kippi Vaught

Brenda Lynne Judd

Sandra Kay Colley

Karen Chipman Twiggs

Stacy Ann Redican

Linda Aguilar

Virginia Mochel

Craig Miller

Mary Beth Sowers

And an unborn child who was halfway there until its life was unmercifully snuffed out

* * *

Charlene led the brigade of investigators from one site of her and Gerald Gallego’s sex-motivated murderous odyssey to another. The trek crossed three states. From Baxter, high up in the Sierras of California; to Gold Beach on Oregon’s rugged coast; to rural Placer County in California; investigators were able to trace the murderous path of the couple.

Charlene’s remarkable gift for detail and accuracy made the job of gathering evidence that much easier for law enforcement investigators and crime scene technicians. Nevertheless, strong evidence was hardly in abundance. In some cases, it was nonexistent. Time, seasonal changes, shifts in the earth, decomposition of bodies, destroyed or disposed of evidence, all contributed to limiting what could be found and used against Gerald Gallego.

The most solid California case was for the kidnapping-murder of coeds Craig Miller and Mary Beth Sowers. Although the prosecution was without the testimony of Miller’s fraternity brother who had witnessed the abduction and handed police the vital license plate number of the getaway car of the killers, there was enough other ammunition to make for a strong ease against Gallego.

Most prominent was the ballistics match of the .25 caliber bullets that entered and killed Craig Miller and bullets fired into the ceiling of a tavern by Stephen Feil. Although the gun used was never found, circumstantial evidence pointed towards a .25 caliber Beretta automatic, which gun registration records indicated had been purchased by Charlene Gallego in March 1980.

The Beretta was consistent with the weapon used to kill Miller and Sowers, which had a barrel with a right-hand twist.

A match of the ejection and firing pin marks on the shell casings found near their bodies further supported the contention that both were shot with the same gun.

Then, of course, there was Charlene’s eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of Miller and Sowers to nail the lid on her husband’s proverbial coffin.

* * *

The prosecution, partly through Charlene’s cooperation, was also able to build a solid supportive case against Gallego in the murders of Kippi Vaught and Rhonda Scheffler, the first two of his ten alleged sex-motivated slayings.

Gallego’s semen and blood type matched specimens taken from the undergarments of Rhonda’s corpse. This was not the case for her husband or the African American suspects in her murder. In each instance, those blood tests came back negative.

Fibers found on Rhonda’s and Kippi’s clothing proved to be a match with carpet fibers taken from the van the Gallegos had used to kidnap the pair.

Another strong piece of evidence linking Gallego to Vaught and Scheffler came in the form of “bracken fern.” The material was found amongst vegetation in the victims’ socks and shoes. Experts found the fern to be consistent with that present in the Baxter area, where Charlene claimed her husband had sexually assaulted the two girls. In the Sloughhouse area, where the girls’ bodies were discovered, they found no bracken fern.

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