Tales from the Morgue: The Pied Piper of Tucson series
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Johanna Eubank
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Note: This series was first published on tucson.com in 2010 and updated in 2018 in Tales from the Morgue. In newspaper terms, the "morgue" is the archive of the paper.
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At the request of several readers, Tales from the Morgue presents the story of the Pied Piper of Tucson.
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The bones of the missing sisters, Gretchen and Wendy Fritz, were found in the desert after an informant led police to them. The informant accu…
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Richard Bruns had implicated two other people in the death of Alleen Rowe. These people were John Saunders and Mary French.
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The attorney for Charles Schmid, accused in the murder of three teenaged girls, felt that news coverage of the case would keep Schmid and the …
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The Schmid case was sensational enough to put Tucson in the public eye. Time magazine did an article on the case, which was summarized in the …
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On Nov. 24, 1965, at the preliminary hearing for Charles Schmid in Justice Court, Richard Bruns testified for more than four hours and was exp…
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Mary Rae French and John Saunders both pleaded guilty for their parts in the murder of Alleen Rowe.
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The trial can't start until there is a jury. Jury selection for the Schmid trial proved to be a difficult undertaking.
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As the trial of Charles Schmid Jr., accused of murder in the deaths of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz, began, Schmid's attorney, William Tinney, dis…
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Charles Schmid was on trial for murdering Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. The chief witness against him was Richard Bruns.
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On Feb. 28, 1966, Charles Schmid Jr.'s mother testified as a defense witness for her son.
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The jury took only two hours to reach a verdict in Charles Schmid Jr.'s trial for murder in the deaths of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz.
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Charles Schmid was officially sentenced to death for the murders of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz on March 25, 1966. Schmid spoke publicly at the s…
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As if the Schmid case wasn't talked about enough already, in April 1966, there was buzz that F. Lee Bailey would join in Schmid's defense.
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Charles Schmid Jr. was not granted a plea change in the Rowe murder case and was sentenced to 50 years to life.
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Charles Schmid Jr. did his best not to stay in prison. He appealed his convictions to the Arizona Supreme Court, but they were upheld.
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Charles H. Schmid Jr. may have been spared the death penalty by the Arizona Supreme Court, but other prisoners did not spare him.
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Richard Bruns turned in Charles Schmid for murdering teenage girls in the mid-1960s, helped police find the bodies of two of the girls and testified against him. Now he's telling his story.
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Johanna Eubank
Online producer
