Phantasmal Crime 34 - The Serial Killer and the Devil's Tree

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Gerard John Schaefer had been a Florida Law Enforcement Officer. Police are some of our most trusted public servants. Our default position when it comes to police officers is to trust them. And most of the time, that position is correct. But sometimes it can be wrong. Very wrong. That was the case with Gerard John Schaefer. He was a prolific serial killer during the heyday of serial killers in the 1960s and 1970s. There are those who say he made Ted Bundy look like a Boy Scout. Many serial killers have a particular place they gravitate to for dumping bodies. Schaefer had a place he liked to torture and kill young women. That place is known as the Devil's Tree.

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0:00.0	listener discretion is advised. True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.
0:22.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to
0:26.3	fantastical crime.
0:29.3	Gerard John Schaefer had been a Florida law enforcement officer.
0:36.0	Police are some of our most trusted public servants.
0:39.0	Our default position is
0:43.0	is to trust them.
0:44.0	And most of the time, that position is correct.
0:47.0	But sometimes, it can be wrong.
0:49.0	Very wrong.
0:51.0	That was the case with Gerard John Schaefer. He was a prolific serial killer during the
0:56.1	heyday of serial killers in the 1960s and 1970s. There are those who say he made Ted Bundy look like a Boy Scout.
1:05.0	Many serial killers have a particular place they gravitate to for dumping bodies.
1:10.0	Schaefer had a place he liked to torture and kill young women.
1:14.0	That place is known as the Devil's Tree. Oh, Ocamic Park is a popular waterfront park in
1:43.8	in St. Lucie, Florida.
1:46.2	Trails encircle a lush hammock with an area of pine trees.
1:50.8	Large live oaks that have stood as sentinels for centuries make up the rest of the landscape.
1:56.0	This park is hard to find as it sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
2:00.0	Everything about the location translates to serenity and beauty.
2:05.0	But that is not the case here.
2:07.0	There is a Macabre history, a terrifying one.
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