The Sex Slave Killers

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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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I'm the host, and thank you
for listening today. And you know,

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I've been answering these questions that come
in sporadically on different episodes, so I

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figured i'd answer another one in this
episode, and this one comes from Joe

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in Alabama. Joe says, Hey, Joe, what's up with your voice

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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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mean it was relaxing out there,
and I knew the smoke was coming in

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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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So I don't feel bad. It's
just the way that it sounds right

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now, and I could either not
do an episode or I could do an

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episode. So I hope that helps
Joe. It did. Thank you.

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