A Match Made In Hell
On this day in 1977, Gerald Gallego met Charlene Williams at a poker club in Sacramento, California. Their meeting would spark a two-year run of sexual assault and murder until their capture in 1980. The killer couple was responsible for at least 10 deaths, that authorities know of. Charlene Adell Williams was born in 1956 in Stockton, California. By all accounts, she was a shy and intelligent child who was brought up by a very loving family. However, she began to experiment with drugs and alcohol in her teens and had two failed marriages by the time she met the 10-years-older Gerald Gallego, who had quite a different upbringing. His father had the distinction of being the first man executed in Mississippi's gas chamber, for murdering a cop during a prison escape. His mother was a sex worker. By the age of 13, Gallego had committed a sexual assault on a six-year-old girl. He had racked up 23 arrests for various crimes, including robbery, by the time he met Charlene. Despite th...