![]() ![]() When Alleen went missing, her father told her mother he felt she had been murdered and left in the desert. While the murder occurred, Mary French was waiting in the car and listening to the radio.Īfterwards the three buried her. Before murdering Rowe, Schmid told Saunders to rape her, but Saunders was gay, and he couldn't do it. Schmid and his friends took Rowe to the desert, where Schmid and Saunders murdered her. Schmid's girlfriend Mary French had persuaded Rowe to go out with Schmid's friend John Saunders, but Schmid had intended all along to murder Rowe, in order to know what it felt like to kill someone. On May 31, 1964, Charles Schmid decided to murder Alleen Rowe, a high school student living with her divorced mother. For a time, the members of his teenage coterie would keep the secrets of his murders. Women liked him and he frequently met them at the Speedway area of Tucson. He was called the "Pied Piper" because he was charismatic and had many friends in the teenage community of Tucson. He also stretched his lower lip with a clothespin to make it resemble Elvis Presley's. He used lip balm, pancake makeup and created an artificial mole on his cheek. Schmid was a short man who wore cowboy boots stuffed with newspapers and flattened cans to make him appear taller. His best friends were Paul Graff, who lived with him, John Saunders, and Richie Bruns. He spent much of his time on Tucson's Speedway Boulevard, picking up girls and drinking with friends, although he tended to be a loner. His parents left him to run on his own with a new car and a motorcycle. He began living in his own quarters on his parents' property and received an allowance of $300 a month. Just before graduating, Schmid stole tools from the school's machine shop, and was subsequently suspended. ![]() An accomplished athlete, he excelled at gymnastics and even led his high school to a State Championship, but quit the team his senior year. He did poorly in school, but was described as good-looking, intelligent and well-mannered. When Schmid tried to meet his birth mother, she angrily told him never to come back. He had a difficult relationship with his adoptive father, whom Katharine Schmid later divorced. Charles Schmid was an illegitimate child who was adopted by Charles and Katharine Schmid, owners and operators of Hillcrest Nursing Home in Tucson, Arizona. ![]()
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