What a Creep “The Pied Piper of Tucson”
Season 15, Episode 4
Charles “Smitty” Schmid

Life magazine wrote a cover story about Charles “Smitty” Schmid in March 1967 describing teenagers as basically animals that race, do drugs, have sex, and will never “snitch” on anyone--even a 22-year-old pedophile Creep who wears heavy makeup and killed one of their schoolmates. This story is about a man dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” who acted like a murderous Wooderson.

Trigger warnings: murder, sexual assault, and animal abuse

Sources for this episode:
Life Magazine March 4, 1966, http://altsclass.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/8/0/38808759/lifemagazinepiedpiper.doc.pdf
Life Magazine with photos https://www.vintag.es/2015/06/friends-of-murderer-charles-schmid-1965.html?m=1
Mel Magazine: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/charles-schmid-murders-pied-piper-tucson
Charles Schmid Wikipedia
Once Upon a Crime Season 2, Episode 4
The Pied Piper Bloodlands by Harold Schecter
I, A Squealer: THE Insider’s Account of the Pied Piper of Tucson Murders: Richard Bruns
History Channel: https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/a-killer-who-cant-keep-his-mouth-shut
Tucson Citizen: http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/2005/07/11/69875-vicious-pied-piper-butchered-in-prison-in-75/
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