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The Sex Slave Killers · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion is advised. This is tenedmitted murdered. Born in California in nineteen forty
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  six, Gerald Gallego's childhood was rough from the very start. His mother was
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  a sex worker, and she also frequently brought home clients so that they could
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  sexually abuse Gerald. Gerald's father was a criminal and he was estranged from the
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  family, and he was no better. When Gerald was nine years old,
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  his father became the first person to be executed by gas chamber in Mississippi.
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  With this pedigree, it might not be such a surprise that Gerald's criminal record
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  began at the age of ten, after he broke in two and robbed a
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  house in his neighborhood. By the age of twelve, he was a sex
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  offender after molesting a six year old. As a young boy, Gerald had
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  only ever seen and adult relationships that were abusive and unstable. As an adult,
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  he followed this pattern, marrying a total of six women and then inevitably
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  leaving them once they could no longer financially support him. In fact, he
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  was married to someone else when he met the woman who would become his next
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  wife, and then accomplice the one person who had matched his level of depravity
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  Charlene Williams. Charlene's upbringing could not have been more different to Gerald's. Her
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  parents were well off because of her father's successful business, but when her mother
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  was in a car accident, Charlene effectively became the woman of the house,
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  doing the cooking and cleaning while her father was away on business trips. It
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  was a lot of responsibility for a young girl, and in her teenage years
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  in early twenties, it was clear that it had taken its toll on Charlene.
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  At first it was just alcohol, then it was harder drugs and a
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  reputation as the office nymph maniac. Despite rumors of Charlene's flirtatious behavior with her
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  male colleagues, it's actually possible that she was a lesbian. One of her
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  ex husbands, a heroin addict, later stated that Charlene had insisted on having
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  threesomes with him and a female prostitute. Another married man who Charlene later had
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  an affair with, broke off that affair when Charlene wanted to have a threesome
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  with him and his wife, and so far in the story, it sounds
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  a lot like a Jerry Springer episode. R I p Jerry, but it's
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  going to get much, much worse. After this breakup, Charlene tried to
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  take her own life, but she survived just in time to meet Gerald Galgo
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  at a Sacramento poker club Sparks Flew immediately. One week later, Charlene moved
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  in with Gerald, despite him currently being married to another woman. Gerald was
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  a sadist who enjoyed inflicting pain on his partners, and Charlene took up a
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  submissive role in their sexual relationship. She claimed that she hated the way that
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  he hurt her, but decided to put up with it because of her love
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  for him. At the time, it seemed as if Gerald's sexual fantasies opened
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  up new doors for Charlene, allowing her to explore things about herself that she
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  never had before. Several months into their relationship, Gerald brought home a gift
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  for Charlene, a sixteen year old girl who worked as an exotic dancer.
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  He wanted to have a threesome, but he wanted it to be all about
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  him. He didn't want Charlene to touch the girl. The girl stayed in
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  the house when Gerald went to work, and when he arrived home, he
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  found that Charlene and the sixteen year old were having sexual intercourse. Gerald flew
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  into a rage, picking up a teenager and throwing her through a window,
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  and then viciously beating Charlene. From that day forward, Gerald was no longer
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  interested in having a sexual relationship with Charlene. He told her that his libido
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  was gone. However, Charlene believed that he was cheating on her. After
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  one year of this, Charlene was desperate. When Gerald confessed to her that
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  he believed having a couple of sex slaves would fix his libido. Charlene eagerly
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  agreed to find two girls and bring them home to him. It's possible that
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  this arrangement wasn't just serving Gerald, it also allowed Charlene to act on the
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  attraction to women that she had been suppressing most of her life. On the
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  twenty sixth of June nineteen seventy eight, a sixteen year old girl named Sandra
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  k Butler vanished in Nevada. Police decided that Sandra had probably run away from
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  home and never investigated the possibility that she had been kidnapped. Her body was
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  never found. Gerald and Charlene never confessed to having any involvement in Sandra's disappearance,
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  but one year later they kidnapped two teenage girls from almost the exact location
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  Sandra had been when she went missing. On the tenth of September nineteen seventy
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  eight, Charlene lured sixteen year old Kippy Vaught and seventeen year old Ronda Scheffler
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  into the back of her van. The two girls were tied up, repeatedly
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  sexually abused, beaten, and then shot execution style in the head. Kippy
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  survived the first bullet because she had moved her head just as Gerald fired the
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  gun, but he then shot again three more times, making sure that she
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  was dead. The next set of victims were even younger, thirteen year old
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  Sandra Collie and her friend, fourteen year old Brenda Judd. They vanished from
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  Washahoe County Fair in June nineteen seventy nine. Charlene and Gerald had tricked them
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  into their van, telling the girls that they would pay them for handing out
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  flyers instead. With the girls locked in the vehicle, Charlene began to drive.
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  In the rearview mirror, she could see Gerald sexually assaulting both of the
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  children while she drove down the interstate. After they parked the van in a
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  remote area, Charlene took over, sexually assaulting both victims while Gerald then watched.
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  When Gerald got bored, he grabbed a shovel and used it to hit
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  Sandra in the head, not stopping until she was dead. He then killed
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  Brenda, dug a deep hole in the ground, and buried both girls.
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  It was believed for the next four years that Brenda and Sandra were just runaways,
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  and their disappearance was barely investigated until Charlene confessed to killing them. Gerald
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  continued to demand that Charlene help him find victims, just as casually as you
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  might order a cup of coffee. Before the couple abducted seventeen year old friends
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  Stacy Retikin and Karen Chipman Twigs, Gerald had woken Charlene up in the morning
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  by telling her a quote I won a girl get up. Two months later,
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  Stacy and Karen's remains were found buried in shallow graves, partially eaten by
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  coyotes. Both girls had died from massive blunt force trauma to the head after
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  being sexually assaulted. Although Gerald and Charlene are only confirmed to have killed eleven
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  people, most of whom were underage girls. Authorities suspect that they killed even
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  more because of their habit of killing victims in remote locations and multiple of their
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  victims being falsely reported as runaways. There's a very good chance that the remains
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  of their other victims have just not been found. During their last killing,
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  Gerald and Charlene deviated from their pattern. They abducted and killed a male victim.
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  When Gerald saw Craig Miller and his fiance Mary standing on the roadside,
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  he pulled the car over and ordered them into the vehicle at gunpoint. He
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  shot Craig in the back of the head when they arrived at a remote location
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  nearby, then shot him twice more to make sure that he was dead.
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  Mary watched in horror, Unable to help her fiance. Gerald and Charlene then
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  transported Mary back to their apartment, where they sexually assaulted her for several hours
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  before killing her. However, Gerald and Charlene had been careless and impulsive in
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  their abduction of the couple. One of Craig and Mary's friends had seen the
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  entire altercation and remembered the license plate of the car driven by the kidnappers with
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  a plate number. Police zeroed in on the two suspects, Gerald and Charlene
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  Gallego. They were quickly taken into custody and pleaded not guilty to the charges
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  against them. In nineteen eighty three, Gerald Gallego was sentenced to death in
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  California for killing Craig and Mary. The following year, he received another death
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  sentence in Nevada from the murders of Stacey and Karen. Charlene's attorney had convinced
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  the courts to offer a reduced sentence if she agreed to testify against her husband,
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  which she did. Despite her involvement in at least eleven murders and most
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  likely Moore, she was now only facing sixteen years of jail time. During
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  her time behind bars, Charlene told one of her fellow prisoners how ecstatic she
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  felt during the torture and murder of Kippe and Ronda. Charlene's sentence finished in
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  nineteen ninety seven, and after her release, she gave interviews where she claimed
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  that she had also been a victim of Gerald's despite admitting to enjoying the killings
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  and taking such an active role in the abductions. Quote there were victims who
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  died, she said, and there were victims who lived. It's taken me
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  a hell of a long time to realize that I'm one of the ones who
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  lived to this day. Charlene Gallego is a free woman. That is ten
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  minute Murder for Today, brief and binge able true crime. I'm Joe.
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  today? Why don't you sound like that? Well, it's a good question,
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  Joe. I'd love to tell you. That's because I was sitting out
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  by the fire pit earlier today and was just breathing in smoke. I don't
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  my face and I was just like, Okay, well I'm fine with this,
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  I guess, And now I sound like this and it won't go away.
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  I've had two and a half bottles of water and it's still with me.
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