2. Childhood
•Raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
•Did not get along with his father, who
he thought favored his sister.
•As a teen he became a peeping tom, he
would spy on a neighborhood girl.
•Killed animals as a child
•Admitted to cross dressing
3. Childhood
• At age 12 he would experiment with
bondage and sadomasochism
•His father favored his sister so he
wanted to be a girl.
•Would fantasize about hurting other
people
4. Adulthood
•Graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas
High School .
•Went to college.
•Got married during college to Martha
Fogg
•Became a teacher, but was soon fired
for “totally inappropriate behavior.”
5. Adulthood
•Applied to the priesthood – was rejected
for “not having enough faith”
•Went into law
enforcement, graduating as a
patrolman at the end of 1971
6. Victims
Date Victim Age Crime Site
08/09/69 Leigh Hainline Bonadies 25 Murder and rape Miami
18/12/69 Carman Hallock 22 Murder and rape Fort Lauderdale
04/01/72 Belinda Hutchins 22 Murder and rape
January 1971 Barbara Ann Wilcox Murder and rape Cedar Rapids, Iowa
January 1971 Collette Goodenough Murder and rape Cedar Rapids, Iowa
27/09/72 Susan Place 18 Murder and rape Fort Lauderdale
27/09/72 Georgia Jessup 16 Murder and rape Fort Lauderdale
23/10/72 Mary Briscolina 14 Murder and rape Fort Lauderdale
23/10/72 Elsie Farmer 14 Murder and rape Fort Lauderdale
7. Motives
• As a child his dad favored his sister
over him, grew a resentment to girls
•Sexual pleasure, was into bondage at
a young age.
8. Methods and rituals
•He obtained his victims easily, as
he was a police deputy.
•He would usually pick up the girls
while they were hitch hiking.
•He would bound them to a tree
then rape them before killing them.
•He would always keep the victims
jewelry.
9. Getting caught
• While on patrol he picked up two teenage girls, who
were hitchhiking. He took them to some remote
woods and tired them to a tree and threatened to kill
them or sell them as prostitute however he got a call
on his police radio and had to leave them there but
planed to return. The girls escaped and went to the
police. Gerard told the police he was just trying to
teach the girls a lesson about hitchhiking. They did
not believe him and he was stripped him of his badge
and charged with false imprisonment and assault.
10. Getting caught
•After posting bail, Schaefer was released.
Two months later, on September 27, 1972,
Schaefer abducted, tortured, and
murdered Susan Place, and Georgia
Jessup,
and buried them on Hutchinson Island.
•The police got a search warrant for his
home and found lurid stories he had
written that were full of descriptions of
the torture, rape and murder of women
11. Charges
•Schaefer was charged with the
murders of Place and Jessup. In
October 1973, he was found guilty and
given two life sentences.
•Authorities soon stated that he was
linked to around 30 missing women
and girls.
12. Death
•On December 3, 1995,
Schaefer was found
stabbed to death in his
cell. He had been killed
by fellow
inmate Vincent
Rivera.
13. Questions
• Serial killers blend in, they are usually charming, the impeccably
dressed, polite individuals. They know how to stalk there victims by gaining
there trust.
•Organized crime scenes- Planned offense, Transports body, Body hidden, and
Missing weapon or evidence
Disorganized Crime Scenes- Body left at death scene, Spontaneous
offense, Depersonalizes victim, and Victim or location known
Mixed Crime Scene- Shows characteristics from both the organized and
disorganized crime scenes
Atypical Crime Scene-Crime scene that can't be classified by the data
available.
• You sometimes don’t know the people you trust, they could be serial killer.
Also the most unlikely people you would think of become serial killers.
