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Jerry Brudos

1939 - 2006

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Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos (January 31, 1939 – March 28, 2006) was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women. All of Brudos's murders were committed inside either his car or the basement or garage workshop of the two homes in which he resided during the period he committed his murders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Brudos has received more than 3,608,487 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jerry Brudos is the 132nd most popular extremist (down from 119th in 2019), the 2,932nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,028th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jerry Brudos ranks 132 out of 209. Before him are Albert Anastasia, Josef Blösche, Luis Garavito, Sam Giancana, Leon Czolgosz, and Marcus Fulvius Flaccus. After him are John Adams, Patricia Krenwinkel, Alexandros Koryzis, Richard Chase, Carl Panzram, and Patty Hearst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jerry Brudos ranks 161. Before him are Elvīra Ozoliņa, Germaine Greer, Czesław Niemen, Jane Alexander, Ariane Mnouchkine, and Arkady Luxemburg. After him are Carlos do Carmo, Yael Dayan, Frank Vincent, Yoshinobu Ishii, Robert James Waller, and Dick Scobee. Among people deceased in 2006, Jerry Brudos ranks 112. Before him are Alexander Zinoviev, Lee Jong-wook, Red Buttons, Marek Grechuta, Coretta Scott King, and Basil Poledouris. After him are June Allyson, Alberto Spencer, Angelica Rozeanu, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Joe Rosenthal, and Pietro Rava.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Brudos ranks 2,932 out of 18,182. Before him are Terence McKenna (1946), J. P. Guilford (1897), Don Norman (1935), Kurtwood Smith (1943), Jonathan Franzen (1959), and Joel Asaph Allen (1838). After him are Linda Nochlin (1931), Bill Hewlett (1913), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Dolores Costello (1903), S. S. Van Dine (1888), and Ted Williams (1918).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Jerry Brudos ranks 43. Before him are Rodney Alcala (1943), Robert Hansen (1939), Baruch Goldstein (1956), Joseph Valachi (1904), Sam Giancana (1908), and Leon Czolgosz (1873). After him are Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Richard Chase (1950), Carl Panzram (1892), Patty Hearst (1954), Robert Stroud (1890), and Louis Farrakhan (1933).

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