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Hi, everyone, I'm Tanya. And I'm Tlaia. advised.

Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.

And I'm T Leah.

And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. I'm going to be. Welcome everyone to today's episode. I have a really interesting case for you today to Leah. I like very interesting cases

All right so let's do this so this case is about a man named Charles Schmid Jr.

He was nicknamed the Pied Piper of Tucson.

Charles Schmid Jr was born July 8th, 1942.

His parents, the Schmidz, adopted him when he was one day old.

His biological mother had come to the Hillcrest nursing home in Tucson, Arizona. This nursing home was owned by

the Schmid's and she told them that she's getting ready to have this baby. She

didn't know who the father was and she wanted to place the baby for

adoption, so they said, okay. The Schmitz decided to put the record of his birth,

including his mother's name, in a safety deposit box at the bank and they had agreed

that they would give Charles Jr. the information when he turned 21.

However, they decided somewhere along the way they did it to him on his 18th birthday and the story goes that he tracked down his birth mom and she wanted nothing to do with him.

So I don't know if that caused maybe a little psychological issue for him. Charles Jr. was nicknamed

Smitty in high school, so I'm going to be referring to him as Smitty throughout the

rest of this episode. He was a really good athlete. He was on the gymnastics team. Picture someone very physically fit.

However, he had a smaller stature. The things that I read, the articles and everything ranged his height to be between 5 3 and 5 5. He's a little guy.

He's a little guy. As I said he was on the gymnastics team he took that team to state

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