Here's How Many Victims Jerry Brudos Actually Had

At 21, Jerry Brudos followed a young woman home, then strangled her to unconsciousness and stole her shoes, which he took home to sleep with, according to Radford University Psychology Department. For several years after that attack, Brudos laid low as a family man with a wife. The couple would have two children. After the birth of their second child in 1967, Brudos' depraved urges came back. That year he stalked another woman and broke into her house where he raped and strangled her until she passed out, then he stole her shoes. 

Brudos' known murder victims are Linda Slawson,19, Linda Salee, 22, Karen Sprinker, 19, and Jan Whitney, 23. According to the book "Serial Murderers and Their Victims", Brudos bludgeoned Slawson with a two-by-four. It was her foot that he kept before throwing her into a river. 

From there, Brudos went on to strangle the remainder of his victims — Whitney, Sprinker, and Salee — as well as abusing their bodies in various, torturous ways. A month after his final murder, Brudos was caught. 

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