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la-Palm Beach Post, Monday, May 14, 1973 I It i I Nancy Trotter Tells Of Schaef er Encounter 1 1 -TV 1 I 4 fcntHniiimnum mm 1 (I 1 mW v. Staff Photos by John Schffnr "He was mad 'cause we wouldn't talk to him and weren't scared. "He took us outside the car and got stuff out of his trunk ropes and sheets. Before, he had gotten the handcuffs from in between the car seats "He took Sue out in a field. He had my blanket and put it on the ground.

He made her sit on it, and he tied her legs together. "And then he made another loop around her shoulders so that she was tied hand and foot, handcuffed and gagged. "1 was scared then. I could have run away but I couldn't because he had Sue there. "He told us if one of us got away he would kill the one he had and then come and catch and kill the other.

"I was standing there with my arms behind my back and gagged. After he told Sue to get away 'cause he had me and if she got away he would kill me and then go back and kill her he took me down by the (Indian) river. "And there were these groups of trees down there. He tied my feet together. He made me stand on the (above ground) roots of a tree.

And then he made a noose and put it on my neck. "And that's when I started crying. "And then he put it (the rope) over a branch above me. and then he tied it onto another branch the rope went up and down and then hooked onto another piece of branch. "And then he told me not to get away.

"If I had fallen off of those roots I would have hung. "I was crying. But the only thing he really did to me was pinch my ass and I got a kind of disgusted look on my face and he just laughed. "He made some statement that if he wanted to he could have raped me right there. "He left, and right away I started trying to get undone.

I started chewing on the ropes around my neck. My feet were tied together. And I tried to work my legs out but I couldn't. "I finally turned around and fell against the branch where the other end (of the rope) was tied on. The rope was looser from my chewing on it and I could untie it with my hands (handcuffed) behind my back.

"I undid the knot myself, and then I got all the ropes off. It didn't take very long 10 or 15 minutes. "But I still had the handcuffs on. "I ran up by that Spanish fort and hid my ropes because I knew he didn't have any more in his trunk I had seen before that he had taken almost all of his ropes out of his trunk. "I felt like I was in a movie.

I sneaked behind the Spanish fort and peaked out the other side and saw his car still there. "I ran back down towards the river. I went into it knee deep and then I thought I heard somebody calling me. and fruit baskets. Gerard Schaefer asked Miss Trotter and Paula Sue Wells if they wanted to see a Spanish fort, and he brought them to this shed shortly before tying them to the tree.

Continued from Page Al said if we were going to Jensen Beach the next day a Saturday he offered to take us there since Jensen Beach was his patrol (area)." The girls accepted his offer and, Nancy continues: "The next' day he picked us up in a park in downtown Stuart that was iiext to the courthouse and near the apartment where we were" living. ''He was in a light blue foreign car with white interior and bucket seats. He was wearing home clothes slacks and a shirt. ''We asked him, 'How come you're not in a police said they had put him on as a 'plainclothes cop today' and he just observed. "So 1 got in the front seat and Sue (Paula Sue Wells) got in the back.

He started driving along A1A and then asked us if we wanted to see a Spanish fort. "We said "He took us to see this place and it was an old Spanish fort. He showed us the ruins along the river and where the boats used to come in and stuff like that. "We got out of the car and looked at it, looked in it and then we went back to the car because we wanted to go to the beach. "Then, he started asking us questions.

"He mentioned the Halfway House. We said there were just Jesus freaks there and that we were staying with one of the girls who worked there she also worked at McDonalds. "He asked us if there were drugs there. We said, 'No, no you're wasting your time if you think that there "He asked, 'Where are the drugs in We said we didn't know 'this is only our second day down "We weren't taking him very seriously. He asked us a whole bunch of things while we were still sitting there in the car.

"Then he told us he could dig a hole and bury us. "He told us, 'No crime without a "We still didn't think he was serious. We were just getting disgusted 'cause it was really hot and we wanted to get to the beach. "Then he said he'd have to put us under arrest as runaways. He made me dump out (the contents of) my purse on the car seat.

"Then he took me outside the car and put handcuffs on me with my arms behind my back. Sue, too. "He put us back in the car and started talking about white slavery. "He asked me 'would your parents pay "He said a bunch of weird stuff. He said he had someone he could sell us to- and then we could really see the world.

"We told him to go get his sheik and sell us. SPANISH FORT This weathered wooden shed on Hutchinson Island is the place Nancy Ellen Trotter refers to as a "Spanish fort." It actually is just a small, wooden storage building containing old lumber "I looked through the bushes it was Sue. He had gone back and Uiken her from the field and re-tied her down by the river just the way he had me "Sue kept calling me but I thought knew 1 was gone and was making her call me. "I kept going. "As I was going through the w.ii'r 1 IhmhI sounds like someone was behind nie.

"And I started running through the water 'cause 1 thought he was after me "At the first clearing, 1 up en land and there Was this whole bunch of undergrowth I crawled under there and just stayed in the bushes, being real quiet. "I knew there were snakes here, but I didn't see any. I did see every kind of spider. "And every time a bird flea up, or the wind blew through the trees I kept thinking it was hiru. "Then the place gut just really bad with mosquitoes.

I couldn't brush them off 'cause 1 war, still hanoVuftod "After a half-hour or so. 1 couldn't take it anymore. "I knew that the road out there was parallel with the river, so I started heading towards the road. "I was walking over all these bushes because I didn't want to take a path. I thought: he could catch me on a path, but I could run through jungle as fast as he could, "I fell down once in a while.

And then I got to a place where there were too many trees and vines I couldn't go in that direction anymore, and I couldn't get around. "I still thought he was behind me at that point. And if he was, I was just going to give up. "So I started back towards the river. "Finally I made it back to the river.

I never saw him, so I guess he wasn't following me. "I knew it was a peninsula, that it was on, and if I followed the river there would be a place where I would be able to look across the river and see the road Al A. "I finally got to a place where I could see the road on the other side so I walked out into the river and just started swimming. "I knew I could swim with my hands behind my back. I'm a pretty good swimmer.

"You kind of kick (while) on your back and kind of do the side stroke without your hands. "The river was pretty wide 'cause the cars on the road seemed pretty small when I started swimming. "I got stung by two jelly fish while swimming that's not very much fun. "When I got close enough to land where I could touch bottom I started walking towards shore. "I started crying and screaming at the cars on the road.

"The first car that stopped I wasn't even out of the water yet was (one driven by) Sheriff (Robert L. Crowder was at the time sheriff of Martin County and thus, head of the department of which Gerard Schaefer was a deputy. "The sheriff told me they were looking for me that Sue had been found about 45 minutes before she got loose and stopped a truck on the road and told about me. "The sheriff (Crowder) was really nice. He undid the handcuffs, wrapped me in a blanket and put me in the back seat of his car.

"I asked, 'What's going "He (Crowder) said, 'Guess we had one bad apple in the Nancy Trotter estimates her ordeal lasted "only around three hours." After nearly a year of reflection on it, she says: "The whole time I couldn't figure out what Schaefer was trying to do. I couldn't figure the whole purpose. He told the paper afterwards that he was trying to teach me a lesson. But he didn't say anything like that to us. To what does she credit her ability to escape? "I guess I just feel pretty lucky." mi i hi in ilmm -f Section of Indian River Where Nancy Trotter Crossed After Freeing Herself From the Tree She Was ied To iac-Kille Psychiatric Profile: A Nec "They sometimes tie themselves up, but damn short of where it hurts too much.

Luidens said the appearance of the retiring personality vanishes when the victim is dead and "he becomes animalistic, vicious, crude in a destructive explosion. "He has finally conquered somebody. "It serves as an ego-kick imagine that to a guy who is that weak." Luidens, whose professional life was spent as clinical director or superintendent of hospitals for the criminally insane, said he has no scientific proof, but he believes necrophiliac killers are "impotent with live women." i remember a quotation about one of the victims by liieluilei 'What a lovely way to "These people setoron kill themselves by that iovely ay to They are rarely suicides, since haven guts, to kill themselves. They ire Ij.eacjUv its Kxperls. 1.

miens said, frequently describe (lie ueci'opluliac as a dual personality, am! sailwtic lie miestions that one man can be both These killers are oiten retiring and shy. with the external behavior of a masoehisW" Luidens said. lie is the one to always retreat or withdraw from ai'iiumems coniliets "She made entries day by day. so when his moment came the material would be there fur a biography. She noted each medical convent inn which he frequently attended in a northern city.

"When the diary was reviewed, it was discovered the high level medical meetings allegedly held in that city never happened. "On each occasion a young lady died in that town." Necrophiliacs who have intercr.urse w-UU. corpses are extremely cynical and coldly indifferent (oward the tragic and horrible, Luidens said. "They very often vilify and violate the dead body, cutting them up in pieces," he added, "They gain great pleasure out of witnessing the torture. By JAYNE ELLISON Copyright 1973 Th Palm Btach Post Killers who mutilate then have sexual intercourse with the corpses are a "psychiatric phenomenon not clearly understood." Dr.

Henry G. Luidens, a forensic psychiatrist, said the killers can be "highly respectable, with no one thinking they could commit such crimes. "They unconsciously and subconsciously hate women and down deep they hate the mother who doted on them," Luidens said. "You seldom or rarely hear of these people. They frequently seek employment with large undertakers or mortuaries.

"And they can work there a long time without discovery, because the boss goes home at 5 o'clock. "Thev are fired, then found out. "Bu! there are no complaining witnesses." Luidens recalled the case of a highly regarded superintendent of a hospital for the criminally insane. "To my complete satisfaction, he murdered seven young women," Luidens said, "He did them one at a time. "It was never definitely proven, but it was quite obvious he had intercourse with those dead bodies." Luidens said a clue to the crimes was found in a diary kept by the physician's doting mother.

"He seemed to love his mother very much," Luidens recalled. "His mother kept the diary, thinking that he might be a famous psychiatrist one day. fTV 3n I 1 1' I Link Possibility Discussion Set c-r Jf Arsenal Found In Death Probe Continued from Page Al 1 Among weapons confiscated were a collection of knives ranging from Japanese weapons of large size used in the South i Pacific during' World War II. machetes and "overgrown" butcher knives, to shorter ones described as larger than pock- et or switchblade knives. Nine or more assorted driver's licenses, credit cards and other identification were recovered, I Other cases under investigation include: Mary Briscolina.

14, and Elsie Lina Farmer. 13. both of Fort Lauderdale, whose bodies were discovered Jan. 17 and Feb. 15 at a Plantation construction site.

Also Carmen Hallock. 23. and Leigh Bonadies. 25. of Fort Lauderdale, both presumed dead.

Their bodies were not found. Two West Virginia University coeds. Karen Ferrell and Mared' Malarik, whose decapitated, mutilated bodies were found (juried in a shallow grave in March 1970 near Morgan- towu w.va. Two girls in Rapids. Iowa Also under investigation are the disappearances of two ,1 Lake Park sisters.

Katrina Bivens. 14. and Sandra Bivens. 12. 1 and Wendy Brown Stephenson.

8. and Peggy Rahn. 9. both of Pompano Reach Investigators said the ghoulish crime spree may reach to' CHARLESTON. W.

Va. (AP) West Virginia police plan to meet with South Florida authorities today, to study a possible link between the bizarre murders of at least six South Florida girls and the brutal slayings of two Morgantown. W. Va. college coeds.

"I didn't know about this until the story was read to me." West Virginia State Police Supt. R. L. Bonar said of a copyrighted story in The Post Sunday telling of an investigation into a one-man killing spree over the last 10 years, which could explain the murders of 28 or more women. "It does sound awfully good," Bonar added.

The decapitated bodies of West Virginia University freshmen Karen Ferrell and Mared Malarik were found in shallow graves in a remote section of Monongalia County in March 1970. 1 They had disappeared about two months earlier and were lt seen hitchhiking to their dormitory from downtown Morgantown. I State police Sgt. J. R.

Potts termed the South Florida developments "the hottest thing I've heard yet." "The mode of operation they described down there sounds viry much like the coed murders in Morgantown." Potts said. I South Florida authorities, The Post reported, already had been studying the West Virginia link. The file on the case has btien sent by the Morgantown Police Department to St Lucie Sheriff Lanie Norvell Norvell's department is among seven law enforcement agencies actively investigating the murder spree olice in Fort Lauderdale are night her il.iug! ie an SCHAEFFR'S CAR a called al i a I ititt hinson Europe and North Africa. Bodies of many of the victims probably never will be lound, investigators said, because evidence indicates they were hacked and dismembered in various states of decomposition and disposed of in remote areas. holding Gerard Schaefer's car, this blue-green Dal- himself Jerry Si, phs i i sun, in an impoundment lot.

The license number of were i'mmd buried h-h. the car was noted by the mother of Susan Place the island, April 1.