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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history and

the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK,

three week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers

in true crime history. True Murder with your host, journalist and author Dan Zufanski.

Good evening. The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley and the righteous brothers filled

the airwaves. Television shows like The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet and the Andy Griffith

show mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Arizona. But the sun-baked

desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath named Charles Schmidt

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 first-hand account written

in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmidt, the details

of getting involved way in over his head, and how he finally summoned the courage to blow

the whistle, then the deadly rampage that shocked the nation and changed the city of Tucson

forever. The book that we're featuring this evening is I, A Squealer, the insider's account

of the Pied Piper of Tucson murders with my special guest, journalist and author, Lisa Espich.

Welcome to the program and thank you very much for agreeing to this interview, Lisa Espich.

Hi Dan, thank you for inviting me on. Thank you very much, very very interesting story indeed.

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