Cold-Blooded

Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson" (True Crime Series, No 1)

Cold-Blooded was written by and John Gilmore. The 256 page book was published by in 2015 (originally in 1996) with an ISBN 10 of 1878923250. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Cold-Blooded mentions 1 serial killers including Charles Schmid. The author John Gilmore has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

COLD-BLOODED is the classic account of the murder of three young girls by Charles Schmid, Jr., teen-age idol of the lower depths of Tucson, Arizona in the Hot-Rodder mid-60s--a lost city surrounded by a bone-dry ocean of rocky deserts. Lover to many scrawny, broken girls, Schmid a champion gymnast-turned-half-baked philosopher and ultimately a lonely boy disguising an emptiness so vast that he sought to fill it by seeing how far he could go. "Racing through life at a million miles an hour," he wrote, Schmid claimed he sought the thrill of "Death's closeness" and finally reaching for the thrill of "that ultimate experience." COLD-BLOODED gives the reader a step-by-step account of the series of events which led Schmid to "killing for the thri...