Charles Boney’s “indictment has raised questions about whether his fixation with women’s feet — which he first acknowledged in 1989, when he was arrested in Bloomington, Ind., for knocking three women to the ground and stealing one shoe from each — may have figured in the Camm murders. In the affidavit filed in that case, investigators said Boney placed Kim Camm’s shoes on top of her Ford Bronco; her bare feet had cuts and bruises. In an interview with The Courier-Journal on March 1, before he was arrested, Boney testily denied having a foot fetish. ‘I’m a man,’ he said. ‘I like women. I like all of a woman.’ But after his arrest in the Bloomington shoe thefts in the late October 1988, police said in a report, Boney volunteered, ‘This may seem strange, but I have a thing for ladies’ legs and feet.’ And Faust said that a few weeks ago, Boney told him that he had found a new job, distributing pantyhose for Hanes. A spokeswoman for Hanes, Peggy Carter, said the company sells all its hosiery direct, that it has no distributors, and that it had never heard of Boney…” —Courier Journal (US)

Charles Boney, the subject of this long news profile, is apparently a complicated ne’er-do-well. He is described as such a genteel and polite person that the very people he’s robbing at gunpoint don’t really fear him. He’s been implicated in various felonies — assault, robbery, murder — and yet in prison he aced his college courses and authored a romance novel titled “I Wish for Love.”

But the one constant in his complicated life appears to have been his foot fetish. His life of crime apparently began when he assaulted a few girls for their shoes. Later he married — for the second time, so far as you can make out from the article — and the first conversation he had when meeting his wife-to-be was about feet. “That”s how we started talking,” his wife told a tv station. “I kind of have a shoe fetish, too. Not a foot fetish, but a shoe fetish.” Evidently their marriage was something of a folie à deux with feet as its focus. And then Mr. Boney somehow got involved in helping a former state trooper kill his wife and children. After the murders, police found the wife’s shoes carefully perched atop her Ford Bronco. Was one of the perpetrators — perhaps Mr. Boney? — setting them aside from the mayhem, putting them on a pedestal or impromptu altar?

The news profile wonders whether Mr. Boney’s foot fetish might not be the driving force behind his life of crime. However, it doesn’t really force the argument, since indeed it’s a difficult argument to make: plenty of people worship feet without ever landing in jail for acts of brutal thuggery. At the same time, though, it’s hard to deny that feet seem to have occupied a central position in his crimes. Is it because there might be some connection between his fetish and his criminal behavior? Or is it because, if he’s truly a fetishist, then feet would play a prominent part in any aspect of his life, criminal or otherwise?

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