Free Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers by Carol Anne Davis Page B

The submissive often indicates to the dominant party what he or she enjoys, so in a way it’s the submissive that’s in charge, the common term for this being ‘topping from below.’
    Sexually submissive people are often very strong characters in their day to day lives - as, in many ways, Charlene was. She was running rings around everyone at work but, like many women, wanted a man in her bed who could take charge. Gerald Gallego, who hated women deep down, originally rose to the challenge. He appeared streetwise and very masterful.
    Within a week of meeting, the new couple had rented a house and moved in together. Gerald soon moved beyond the flowers and chocolates stage of the relationship and Charlene accepted that he was more interested in his own sexual satisfaction than he was in hers. Like most serial killers who use sex to hurt and humiliate their partners, his preference was for anal sex then oral sex, with vaginal sex a very poor third. But she was fascinated by his machismo and was soon sharing in his illicit fantasies.
    When they had been cohabitating for a few months Gerald brought home a sixteen-year-old dancer and they had a threesome together, but he made sure that the two women only touched him and not each other. The next day he returned early from work to find Charlene having sex with the girl. Enraged, he threw the dancer out of the, thankfully, open window and hit Charlene. He then withheld sex from her, saying that he had become impotent. In reality, it seems, he no longer found her attractive because she’d shown she wasn’t fully dependent on him for sexual kicks. Inadequatemen like Gallego tend to choose very needy or very young girls who they can overwhelmingly dominate and impress.
    Gerald now sodomised his fourteen-year-old daughter and raped her friend - prior to this he had only had vaginal sex with the confused teenager. He did so with Charlene’s knowledge. It’s unclear if Charlene was in the room with them or just in the same apartment, but she evidently didn’t find anything immoral in Gerald’s paedophiliac act. The fact that she condoned the incest - and would later help him flee from the authorities when they were ready to charge him with it - suggests she had the lack of conscience found in the sociopath.
    For the next few months Charlene worked at various jobs and Gerald, who was uneducated, worked in a bar. He made many tips because he was so attractive to women. Charlene suspected he was sleeping with many of his customers, as by now he was sexually disinterested in her.
    When the couple had been together for a year, he said that he needed a pair of love slaves to turn him on, and asked her to procure them. Some sources suggest that she agreed because she saw the man’s word as law, that she wanted only to please him. But no one is completely self-effacing so it’s more likely that she wanted to satisfy her own strong lesbian desires and totally control a helplessly tied-up girl. Whatever hermotivation, she agreed to lure teenage virgins to their certain deaths.

The first two victims
    On 11th September 1978 she approached two teenage girls in a Sacramento shopping mall, suggesting they come with her to her Oldsmobile van to smoke some marijuana. Gerald, of course, was crouching in the back.
    Sixteen-year-old Kippi Vaught and seventeen-year-old Rhonda Scheffler happily accompanied Charlene to the vehicle where Gerald immediately locked them in and brandished his pistol. He told the girls that they were being kidnapped as he wanted to terrify them - their fear turned him and Charlene on. Charlene then taped their mouths, ankles and wrists, took the gun and kept it trained on the girls whilst he drove to a deserted area. They arrived late in the afternoon and Gerald and Charlene undressed and told the victims to do the same.
    For the next six hours, the couple assaulted the helpless teenagers. Gerald sodomised them both and made them fellate him. He only had vaginal sex with