At the time of his arrest, he had a bandage on his nose, which he said he had broken. Investigators were surprised to learn he wore makeup to darken his skin, added a “beauty mark” on his cheek and wore a heavy layer of lip balm. Schmid was an Elvis Presley admirer, dyed his reddish-brown hair black, and wore it heavily greased and slicked back. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, then a Tucson Police Department detective who investigated the Schmid case, said Schmid tried to make up for his diminutive stature by packing his oversize cowboy boots with rags and flattened beer cans, adding about 3 inches to his height. He dropped out of school during his senior year and like to “cruise” Speedway Boulevard.
While still in his teens, he had his own small house on his parents’ property where he drank and partied frequently with friends, his activities largely unmonitored. He had a generous allowance (said to amount to $300 a month), a car and motorcycle, factors that – coupled with a handsome countenance and devil-may-care attitude – enhanced his appeal to a steady stream of adoring young girls, hence his sobriquet of “Pied Piper.” He had a muscular frame but stood only 5 feet 4. Growing up, the younger Schmid proved an indifferent student at Tucson High School, though he excelled at gymnastics. Schmid was born July 8, 1942, to an unwed mother, adopted as a dayold infant by Charles and Katharine Schmid, who owned and operated a nursing home in Tucson.
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This was an era before mass murders and serial killers had become disquietingly common phenomena, and Tucson was horrified. Schmid had gained national notoriety in the 1960s, including feature stories in Life and Time magazines, for the brutal murders of three young Tucson girls.
His adoptive parents declined to claim his body, and prison officials buried him in the prison cemetery. died 10 days later at a Maricopa County hospital, his days as the so-called “Pied Piper of Tucson” were at an inglorious end.
Two fellow inmates administered the ultimate attitude adjustment, and when Charles H. It was 30 years ago that a small man with a large ego was “shanked” in the Arizona State Prison at Florence – stabbed with makeshift prison knives nearly two dozen times in the head and chest and left in a puddle of blood.
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