His narrow escape happened after he got loose from the ties, removed a picture that was covering the window, and climbed out the window. A prostitute named Chris Bryson was tortured on the second floor. In March 1988, 2 years after killing Todd Stoops, Berdella abducted his last victim. Stoops died due to a combination of blood loss and an infection. The torture he endured prior to his death included electric shocks via a spatula placed across the eyelid in an unsuccessful attempt to blind him.

Todd StoopsĢ1-year-old Todd Stoops was kidnaped because Berdella felt sexually frustrated at him. He was killed after 3 days of torture by suffocation. Next year, a friend of Berdella, 18-year-old Robert Sheldon, came to stay with him for a few days and found himself drugged and held captive in the basement just like Howell before him. This was the beginning of his torture and murder spree. In the following hours he repeatedly raped his victim, wrote carefully about the process into his diary, and took several pictures to relive his fantasy later. On July 5 th, 1984, Berdella invited Howell to his house, where he drugged him with sedatives for animals and immobilized him by binding him to a bed. In 1984, he started dating Jerry Howell, a good-looking 19-year-old male prostitute. Berdella was conscious of his homosexuality. He raped, tortured, and killed at least six men. Robert Andrew 'Bob' Berdella was an American serial killer from Kansas City, Missouri. 31 women are identified, some of them still alive – including Bradford's ex-wives.īradford died in 2008, taking the secret with him to his grave. Bradford, his wife, and their newborn child.

Photos of Shari Miller just prior to her murder.

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