![]() ![]() French stayed in the car listening to the radio while Schmid and Saunders buried the body. Instead, they drove to an isolated spot in the desert where Schmid raped the girl and then beat her to death with a rock. Mary convinced Alleen to go on a “double date” with her, Schmid, and Saunders. Alleen lived with her divorced mother and knew Mary French. I think I can get away with it.” He chose 15-year-old Alleen Rowe as his victim. ![]() Schmid suddenly announced, “I want to kill a girl tonight. On May 31, 1964, Schmid, his girlfriend, Mary French, and another friend, John Saunders were hanging out and drinking. By now in his early twenties, he was still hanging out with a high school crowd. As he moved from his teens into his early twenties, people his own age saw him as a creep. He attempted to compensate for his short (5’3”) height by wearing oversized cowboy boots stuffed with newspapers, rags, and flattened beer cans. He dyed his hair jet black and often wore makeup to make himself look more like his idol, Elvis Presley. With that steady income and no need to work, he spent his time cruising the main street of Tucson trying to pick up girls or throwing wild parties at his place. She eve gave him an allowance of $300 a month (equivalent to almost $3,000 in 2022 dollars). With no job and no prospects, Schmid moved into his own place on his mother’s property. Charles never went back and never graduated. Shortly after that, the school suspended him for stealing tools from the school’s shop. He quit the team in the middle of his senior year, though. ![]() But he did excel as an athlete, He led his high school team to a state championship in Gymnastics in 1960. Intelligent and courteous, young Charles was nevertheless no standout as a student. As a boy, Charles often butted heads with his father (his adoptive parents eventually divorced). The couple owned and ran a nursing home in Tucson, Arizona. They gave him his adoptive father’s name, Charles Howard Schmid, Jr. Charles SchmidĬharles and Katharine Schmidt adopted the baby born on Jwhen he was only one day old. The press dubbed him “The Pied Piper of Tucson.” This cutesy moniker belies the fact that Schmid killed three teenaged girls and buried them in the Arizona desert. This week, we travel (virtually) to southern Arizona. Last week’s case of missing Pennsylvania mom Lori Ann Auker ended with her ex-husband’s conviction for murder. ![]()
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