Word: schmid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshmen have a 2-0 record with wins over Huntington Prep and the University of Connecticut freshmen. Although they have two standouts in Peter Schmid, a 6-7 center, and Dan Metzler, a 6-2 guard, they are not as strong as previous teams have been...
...most of his acquaintances around Tucson, Charles Schmid Jr., 23, seemed more sick than sinister. A compulsive blabbermouth who prated indefatigably of his sexual and fistic derring-do, the squat (5 ft. 3 in.), sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue...
...Problem. What went on in the swinging fringe of teen-age Tucson was all too clearly documented in the course of Schmid's two-week trial for the murders of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. Juvenile authorities pointed out that many parents either did not care what their children were up to or else hesitated to check on their activities for fear of inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill...
...teens of Tucson who knew of Charles Schmid's ghastly murders [Nov. 26] prove that dry rot has set in, not only in Arizona but in all of America. There is very little conscience in a nation whose teen-agers withhold information about wanton murders...
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...