On the morning of July 24th, 1925, eight year old Arthur "Buddy" Schumacher Jr. left his home in the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, joined up with a few friends and jumped a freight train to take a ride to a nearby swimming hole. The last those friends saw of Buddy was shortly after they got off that train. The community and state desperately searched for him until the body was found in some brush about a mile away from his house seven weeks later, his clothing torn and a handkerchief shoved down his throat.
Murder In Wauwatosa - The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher explores all the strange events surrounding the killing and the investigation that followed. Eyewitnesses changed their minds about what they saw. Evidence may or may not have gone missing from the District Attorney's office. Two men confessed, although police didn't think either of them did it, and another prime suspect had to be let go due to a lack of evidence. Despite several promising leads, authorities never charged anyone with the crime.
Today it's considered unsolved. But there were some local residents in 1925 who thought authorities did know who killed Buddy Schumacher.
Join me, Scott Stick, the Undoing Evil podcast and author Paul Hoffman, as we explore Murder In Wauwatosa - The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher.
