Gallego serial killers

Infobox Serial Killer
name=Gallego sex slave killers


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birthname=Gerald Armond Gallego Charlene Adell Williams
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birth=July 17, 1946 (G.G.) October 10, 1956 (C.W.)
location=Sacramento, California (G.G. and C.W.)
death=July 18, 2002 (G.G.)
cause=
victims=10
country=U.S.
states=California
beginyear=September 11, 1978
endyear=November 2, 1980
apprehended=1980
penalty=Death

The Gallego sex slave killers are two American serial killers. Gerald Gallego and Charlene Williams Gallego terrorized Sacramento, California between 1978 and 1980. They killed a total of 10 victims, mostly teenagers, whom they kept as sex slaves before killing them.

Victims

Rhonda Scheffler and Kippi Vaught

Scheffler and Vaught, aged 17 and 16 respectively, were shopping at Country Club Plaza Mall on September 10, 1978. Charlene picked them up and put them in the back of the couple's van.

Gerald repeatedly raped the two victims throughout the night in Baxter, California. The next day, the Gallegos drove to Sloughouse, where Gerald got Rhonda and Kippi out of the van. He then made them walk out in the field to a ditch where he hit Kippi first with a tire iron then swung around and hit Rhonda. Finally, he shot each girl in the head with a 25-caliber pistol. As Gerald was walking back he saw one of the victims move (later revealed as Kippi Vaught) because the bullet had only grazed her skull. He returned and shot her three more times in the head, killing her.

Brenda Judd and Sandra Colley

Judd (age 14) and Colley (age 13) were lured into the Gallegos' van at the Washoe County Fair in Nevada on on June 24, 1979 on the promise of making some money delivering leaflets. Charlene drove the van northeast out of Reno on I-80. At the back of the van, Gerald repeatedly raped the two young girls while Charlene watched in the rearview mirror. Charlene then parked their van in a desolate area known as Humboldt Sink.

In the next couple of hours, Gerald rested and watched Charlene force the girls to perform sexual acts on each other.Fact|date=March 2008 Gerald then took a shovel from under the seat of their van pulled Colley out of the van and marched her toward a dark, dry creek bed. Gerald then stepped behind Colley's back and swung the shovel at the girl's head and, as Charlene recalled in the trial, 'a loud splat like a flat rock hitting mud and the girl sank to her knees and slowly toppled over on her face. Next Gerald then beat Judd to death and dug a grave which took him an hour, and then folded the naked bodies in to the hole and he put a rock over the grave. Their remains were found in Nov. 1999 by a tractor driver.

The teenagers were listed as runaways for four years until Charlene confessed to killing them in 1982 in the trial.

Stacey Redican and Karen Chipman Twiggs

On April 24, 1980 the Gallegos kidnapped Redican and Twiggs from Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, a bedroom community north of Sacramento. As with their other victims, husband and wife sexually abused and killed them.

Other victims

*Linda Aguilar and unborn child

*Virginia Mochel

*Craig Miller and Mary Elizabeth Sowers

References

# Davis, Carol Anne. [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0749005726 Women Who Kill, Profiles of Female Serial Killers] . Brixton, London: Allison & Busby Limited. 2001
# Ward, Bernie. [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1558177396 Families Who Kill] . New York: Pinnacle Books. 1993

External links

# [http://home.earthlink.net/~shriveledtolerance/ Shiva Made Schizos. Gerald and Charlene - The Sex-slave Killers]
# [http://rbarriflowers.homestead.com/files/SexSlaveMurdersExcerpts.htm The Sex Slave Murders by R. Barri Flowers]
# [http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/partners/gallego/index_1.html Crime Library]
# [http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/gallego.htm Frances Farmers Revenge Web Portal]