Gerard Schaefer: The "Killer Cop" Who Fooled Everyone | True Crime Documentary

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  @heatherhammersmith8997 · 1 year ago

  "Things are very different today" NOPE! Pretty much every single cop that has finally been caught assaulting or killing people has a looooong record of these things because they hop around from department to department, without their records EVER following them and each new department almost never contacts the old precinct for background checks either.

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• CR

  @CrimesWithPoirot · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc6X8PRnlZU&amp;t=849">14:09</a> - The moment when Schaefer tells his boss it was just a &quot;lesson&quot; to teach the girls about hitchhiking dangers reveals something far more chilling than simple manipulation. <br> <br>Notice how effortlessly he constructs this narrative of benevolent authority - the protective officer teaching wayward youth. But here&apos;s what strikes me: this wasn&apos;t panic-induced lying. This was rehearsed. The speed and coherence of his explanation suggests he&apos;d already crafted this exact justification long before he committed the act. <br> <br>Which begs the question - how many times had he mentally rehearsed variations of this story? How many potential scenarios had he already scripted explanations for? The documentary focuses on his impulsiveness, but I see something far more calculating: a predator who&apos;d already anticipated getting caught and had his defense ready. <br> <br>What&apos;s truly disturbing is that his &quot;teaching moment&quot; excuse actually contains a kernel of truth - hitchhiking WAS dangerous. But not because of random strangers. Because of people exactly like him, hiding behind badges and authority. He weaponized a legitimate safety concern to mask his predation. <br> <br>The real question isn&apos;t whether he was impulsive or calculated - it&apos;s whether he deliberately chose law enforcement specifically because it provided the perfect cover story for his crimes. After all, who questions a cop &quot;protecting&quot; young women? <br> <br>Sometimes the most dangerous lies are the ones wrapped in truth.

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• KA

  @KatherineGivens-q8e · 1 year ago

  These Professionals are 🤢 good grief to think they get paid.

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• JO

  @johnlundvall · 8 months ago

  The scariest thing is that if thoose two girls hadn&apos;t escaped he could have kept going for years and God knows how many more he would have killed. But also he should have got locked up for life immedately when the girls told their story and he admitted to his boss what he did, the justice system is sometimes a bad joke. It turns your stomach thinking of what these poor girls had to go thru before they died.

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• SE

  @setghanbingfest4988 · 1 year ago

  Thank goodness the &quot;boys in the house&quot; took care of him.

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• TR

  @Truecrimewatcher · 1 year ago

  Phelps always says it like it is-love it!

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• SU

  @suncrest889 · 6 months ago

  I live in the Martin County area. The police dept he worked for enabled his behavior and emboldened him. It was and still is a toxic &quot;good ole boy&quot; fraternity. This man was evil but the police dept deserves some responsibility.

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• BO

  @Bottles2026 · 11 months ago (edited)

  These experts are ruining this... Dude sounds like Gacy in his interviews.

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• SH

  @SH3V3K_14 · 1 year ago

  Schaefer is definitively the scariest serial killer in my view. He&apos;s the only one who scares me when I see his prison interviews. Pure evil.

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• BI

  @biotechy2k933 · 1 year ago

  I can&apos;t see bed wetting as a means to make you mother angry I had horribly abusive foster parent who would beat me for bed wetting but when my biological father manged to regain custody of me in the sixties wet I wet the bed he just made no fuss he said it&apos;s ok we just wash the sheets I was so scared But realised he would just say it&apos;s not a problem we all have accidents and you will grow out of it. Now my father survived being a Changi POW I think when parents show compassion and understanding and tolerance and humanity that is a positive nurturing response so when my child wet the bet there was no yelling abuse or violence I said even when my son was upset I would say it&apos;s okay have a quick shower get ready for school I also said I was a bed wetter it&apos;s just one of those things so we got a mattress protector and I just washed the sheets and protector was a bit more house work but I think not making a big song and dance was more beneficial for my son&apos;s well being it appears to me that showing love and acceptance helps to develop children to grow into a better adult we also didn&apos;t use corporal punishment when the kids were naughty being given extra chores or losing TV time rather than violence was more effective and talking to the kids saying well you lose tv time for being mean to your sibling is why you are being punished seems many of these individuals who become cruel violent human beings could have become better people if they were in less abusive relationships with their own parents

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• LE

  @letushear7301 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Gerard looks like he is running for mayor in the white sweater. You would think dude was way up in the poles in that still picture.<br>The dude is completely smiling in his mugshot like it is his high school reunion.

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• BU

  @burly636 · 6 months ago

  Well, it’s not mental illness. It’s demonic.

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