Sheriff's deputy Gerard John Schaefer tv Serial killers Documentary

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Classification: Serial killer Characteristics: Sheriff's deputy - Rape - Mutilation Number of victims: 2 - 9 + Date of murders: 1969 - 1973 Date of arrest: April 7, 1973 Date of birth: March 25, 1946 Victims profile: Leigh Hainline Bonadies, 25 / Carmen Marie Hallock, 22 / Belinda Hutchens, 22 / Collette Goodenough, 19, and Barbara Ann Wilcox, 19 / Susan Place, 17, and Georgia Jessup, 16 / Mary Alice Briscolina, 14, and Elsie Lina Farmer, 14 Method of murder: Shooting / Strangulation Location: Florida, USA Status: Sentenced to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment in October 1973. On December 3, 1995, Schaefer was found stabbed to death in his cell. He had been killed by fellow inmate Vincent Faustino Rivera Gerard John Schaefer was born in Wisconsin on March 25, 1946, the oldest of three children in a family he later describes as "turbulent and conflictual." Years later, intervicwed by court-appointed psychiatrists, he would refer to himself as "an illegitimate child," the product of a hasty shotgun wedding. He describes his father as a verbally abusive alcoholic, flagrantly adulterous and often absent from home on business trips or otherwise. By 1960, Schaefer's family had settled in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He graduated high school there in 1964, and he was working on the first of severas college degrees when his parents divorced three years later. By that time, if we accept Schaefer's statements to psychiatrists, he was well on the way to troubles of his own. "From an early age," Dr. R. C. Eaton recorded in 1973, "[Schaeferl has had numerous sexual hang-ups." Experiments with bondage and sadomasochism began around age 12. "I'd tie myself up to a tree," he told Dr. Mordecai Haber, "and I'd get excited sexually and do something to hurt myself." Around the same time he began to "masturbate and fantaslze about hurting other people, women in particular." As if this wercn't enough, Schaefer recalled, "I discovered womens underwearpanties. Sometimes I wore them. I wanted to hurt myself. " The violent self-loathing went back to his earliest childhood games. In those games, he told Dr. Haber, "I always got killed. I wanted to die. My father favored my sister, so I wanted to be a girl. I wanted to die. I was such a disappointment to my family as a kid, to my father-he loved my sister. 1 couldn't please my father, so in playing games I wanted to be killed." Schaefer claimed to have visited a psychiatrist in 1966, seeking relief from his sexual deviance and homicidal fantasies, but therapy didn't help. If his later statements are credible, he kept on hearing volces "telling him to kill." That same year, he toured the South with Moral Rearmament, the cheery "Up With People" folks who sang that freedom isn't free. Schaefer thought about the priesthood as a calling, but he was turned away from St. john's Seminary, where, he recalled, "they said I didn't have enough falth." The rejection angered Schaefer so much that he quit the Catholic Church. His next goal was a teaching job, through which he hoped to instill "American values" like "honesty, purity, unselfishness and love," but Schacfer was twice dropped from student~teaching programs for "trying to impose his own moral and political values on his students." The second time, supervisor Richard Goodhart recalls, "l told him when he left that he'd better never let me hear of his trying to get a job with any authority over other people, or I'd do anything 1 could to prevent ¡t.