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...murders came to light when Richard Bruns, 19, told police that Schmid had shown him a grave in the desert outside Tucson in June 1964, a month after 15-year-old Alleen Rowe disappeared from her home. Last August, said Bruns, a few days after Gretchen Fritz, 17, and her sister Wendy, 13, had failed to return home from a drive-in movie, Schmid took him out on the desert again, showed him the Fritz girls' corpses-only one was even partially buried-and boasted that he had killed them. Acting on Bruns's story, Tucson police rounded...
...bored, vacant-eyed teen-agers who hang out at the drive-ins and juke joints along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard, Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 23, was known as a swinger. A well-muscled onetime state high-school gymnastics champion, Smitty always had wheels, money, tall tales and an inexhaustible supply of available girls' phone numbers...
Skeleton Search. Last week, because of his pathological penchant for bragga docio, Schmid was in jail, charged with the murders of two daughters of a Tucson surgeon. Along with two friends - one a 19-year-old girl - he was also accused of murdering a third girl. Police, who had found the two sisters' skeletons on the desert, last week were still searching for the third...
...Norma Rowe reported her daughter missing, gave police the names of Schmid, Saunders and Mary French as possible sources of information. The three were questioned repeatedly, but police finally became convinced that Alleen had simply run away from home-a not uncommon occurrence among teen-agers in Tucson's fast-growing, mobile society where few families stay long enough to put down roots...
Almost as fantastic as the murders themselves was the disclosure that at least 30 teenagers, all friends of Schmid's, had apparently heard him brag about the crimes-and said nothing. Confided one 16-year-old coed at Tucson's Palo Verde high school: "A lot of people knew, but it was already too late. Telling would just have made it tough on everyone...