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  • By: Harold Schechter
  • Narrated by: Steven Weber
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (73 ratings)
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The Pied Piper

By: Harold Schechter
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Summary

With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy heartthrob. In 1964, he still had a hold on girls who’d follow him anywhere. He murdered three of them.

It was the dawn of the free-love movement - perfect for a magnetic madman who’d also foreshadow its end a few years later in the malignant charisma of Charles Manson. The inspiration for a classic story by Joyce Carol Oates, Schmid, the most bizarre serial killer of any era, was the epitome of a narcissist flattered into believing he could get away with murder.

The Pied Piper is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.
©2018 Harold Schechter (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Essays Murder United States Social Sciences Serial Killers True Crime Nonfiction Crime
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A pleasant listen.

Well narrated short on an interesting and obscure character from the dark world of the serial killer.

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Interesting short story

Great narration, and an interesting story ,; I could have listened for a lot longer. Smitty’s victims got justice in the end by his violent and hopefully painful murder.

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