Overview
The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like ""The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett"" and ""The Andy Griffith Show"" mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the ""Pied Piper of Tucson"" by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls. In this firsthand account written in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmid, the details of getting involved way in over his head, and how he finally summoned the courage to blow the whistle to end the deadly rampage that shocked the nation and changed the city of Tucson forever.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Bruns
Publisher: Twin Feather Publishing
Imprint: Twin Feather Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780983166559
ISBN 10: 0983166552
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 20 March 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.
Reviews
...a gripping tale told in a straightforward manner and personable voice. --Readers' Favorite How could a true-crime memoir so infused with brutality, betrayal, deceit, and destruction simultaneously function as an inspiring tribute to integrity and friendship? Yet Bruns succeeds in honoring the inviolability of friendship despite unmasking a barbaric fiend beneath the guise of his friend. --Foreword Reviews In order to understand the criminal mind, how the everyday individual can become a figure who can rape, strangle and kill is a transformation that needs to be examined. I, a Squealer is an opportunity to do just that through a rare witness account of how one man unraveled and spilled into the darkest layers of depravity. --Crime Traveller
How could a true-crime memoir so infused with brutality, betrayal, deceit, and destruction simultaneously function as an inspiring tribute to integrity and friendship? Yet Bruns succeeds in honoring the inviolability of friendship despite unmasking a barbaric fiend beneath the guise of his friend. --Foreword Reviews (03/16/2018) .. .a gripping tale told in a straightforward manner and personable voice. --Readers' Favorite (03/16/2018) In order to understand the criminal mind, how the everyday individual can become a figure who can rape, strangle and kill is a transformation that needs to be examined. I, a Squealer is an opportunity to do just that through a rare witness account of how one man unraveled and spilled into the darkest layers of depravity. --Crime Traveller (03/16/2018)
Author Information
Richard Bruns is the man who turned Charles Howard Schmid Jr aka ""The Pied Piper of Tucson"" into the authorities and was the star witness for the prosecution in the cases against Schmid. He wrote his first hand account at the time of the trials in 1967. Bruns is a retired teacher and continues to reside in Tucson, Az.
