Gerald Parker

Gerald Parker (born 1955), also known as the Bedroom Basher and the Bludgeon Killer, is an American serial killer and sex offender who raped and murdered five young women and girls aged 17 to 31 in Orange County, California, from December 1978 through October 1979. During this time, he was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Tustin. He was dishonorably discharged in 1980 after his conviction for rape, but he would not be linked to the murders until over a decade later following a DNA match.

Parker confessed and was also confirmed to have assaulted a sixth victim, who was pregnant at the time of the attack; she survived, but her child was delivered stillborn. Her husband, Kevin Lee Green, was falsely convicted of the attack and served 16 years in prison until Parker's arrest. Parker was sentenced to death in 1999 and as of 2025 is incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.