Jerry Brudos was an early bloomer as sexual deviants go. Brudos had an emerging shoe and foot fetish at the tender age of five, spending his time playing with stolen women's shoes while most boys his age were still struggling to learn the ropes of kindergarten. It wasn't long before Brudos was sexually consumed with women in high-heeled shoes. At seventeen he logged his first sexually related arrest, serving nine months in a mental hospital for forcing a neighborhood teen to disrobe at knifepoint while he snapped pictures of the terrified girl.

Brudos managed to put aside his obsessions long enough to graduate from high school and become an excellent electronics technician. He also got married a woman who he often persuaded to parade around the house nude and comply with his kinky bedroom habits. He was not satisfied with just a compliant partner, unfortunately, and in January of 1968 he murdered encyclpedia saleswoman Linda Slawson in his garage workshop (which was Brudos' domain, even his wife didn't dare set foot inside) and cut of her left foot which he saved in a freezer to use a grotesque model for his massive collection of women's shoes. That November Brudos struck again, strangling Jan Whitney, who he had abducted up in his car. After her death Brudos cut off her right breast, which he later attepted to make a plastic mold of. Slawson and Whitney's corpses were both dumped in a nearby river.

In March of 1969 Brudos strangled Karen Spinker, dut off both her breasts, and also dumped her into the river. As with the previous two victims, the sick killer engaged in necrophilia with Spinker's body before disposing of it. His fourth and final killing occurred the next month when Brudos, posing as a detective, lured Linda Salee to his garage and killed her, enhancing his fun by shocking her with a live electrical cord.

Finally on May 25 Brudos was apprehended and confessed to his crimes, not that it really mattered in the end. The sex predator had accidently caught his own face, reflected in a mirror, in one of the photographs he had taken during his exploits with Salee. He pled insanity but was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.