ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of the Gerald Gallego and Charlene Gallego. Gallego and Charlene were perhaps the country’s first husband-and-wife serial killers, leaving their mark as a sexually motivated pair of murderers. The homicidal similarities between Gerald Armond Gallego and his father, Gerald Albert Gallego, have not gone unnoticed by criminologists, sociologists, and biologists. The disturbing tale of Gerald and Charlene Gallego and their sex slave fantasy murders has been the subject of cable television crime investigation series exploring serial killers and team killers. Gerald Gallego, who represented himself, had tried to block Charlene’s testimony on the grounds of spousal privilege. Law enforcement officials were unable to connect the killers to their many crimes until they were finally apprehended and both started talking. Only then were the two killers forced to break their attachment and go against one another in the courtroom, where the stakes were high and with little room for error.
