Gerard John Schaefer ended up on the police’s radar for the first time in 1972 - or at least for the first time as a suspect. Schaefer was a sheriff’s deputy in Martin County, Florida when he admitted to his superior that he had messed up… by tying two women to trees and torturing them, before they escaped. He was fired and charged with aggravated assault, but would spend the next 6 months living in the community, while awaiting his trial. What you’ll find here is that this is likely not where the story begins or ends.

Content warning: sexual assault, dismemberment, graphic details, violent misogyny

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Sources:

• Wikipedia

• Morbid

• Crime Library

• Criminal Minds Wiki

• Tampa Bay Times

• Charley Project

• Murderpedia

• Forensic Mag

• Buzzfeed: Devil's Tree

• TC Palm Archives
  

Love Island is nearing its end, while the Bachelorette is just beginning… Plus, can you guess what Lindsay Hubbard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard have in common? Hopefully Taylor Swift will join them soon by giving birth to Rep TV?

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In October of 1970, Dorothy Irene Wiley got into a violent argument with her husband, Clark, which ended in her walking out with their 13-year-old daughter, Susan, who goes by Genie, and taking her to her parents’ home in Monterey Park, California. Dorothy and Clark had an 18-year-old son (let’s call him Davis), but Davis had recently run away from home and was living with friends. Dorothy, who went by Irene, was a single mother for the first time, and in desperate need of support for herself and her daughter, and made her way to the disability services department in nearby Temple City, where she was hoping to be able to get disability payments for her severe nearsightedness. However, due to this vision problem, Irene accidentally made her way to the social services office next door, where a social worker took one look at Genie, and knew something was very wrong.

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Sources:

• Genie Wikipedia

• Language Deprivation Experiment Wikipedia

• Victor of Aveyron Wikipedia