The Pied Piper Of Tucson
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Episode 220 takes us to Tucson, Arizona in the 1960s, when police find a charismatic young man responsible for the disappearance of three teenage girls as the leader of a bizarre little party cult. But even when the murder cases are closed, the exciting story continues to include a daring prison break and a deadly prison brawl.
Culled from the historic pages of the Arizona Daily Star.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Tucson, Arizona, August 22nd, 1965 |
| 0:10.0 | Two teenage daughters of Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Fritz have been missing since Monday evening. Gretchen Fritz, 17, and Wendy, |
| 0:23.6 | 13, both left home about 7.50 p.m. Monday after saying they were going to a movie at the |
| 0:29.8 | Cactus Drive-In Theater. Gretchen and Wendy took the family car after an argument, the mother |
| 0:35.3 | recalled. She described the car as a red and white |
| 0:38.3 | two-door Le Mans Pontiac sedan. August 24th. Police still have no leads to the whereabouts of |
| 0:50.7 | two Tucson girls missing since August 16th, but say there is nothing yet to indicate foul play. |
| 0:57.0 | The car in which the two teenage daughters of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Fritz left their home last Monday night |
| 1:04.0 | was found just before midnight Sunday at the Flamingo Hotel Annex at North 7th Avenue and East Mabel Street. |
| 1:16.4 | August 25th. |
| 1:18.9 | A report that the two missing daughters of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Fritz of Tucson were seen hiking |
| 1:24.7 | toward Nogales Monday night sent city detectives across the border into Mexico. |
| 1:30.8 | The search in Nogales, Sonora, stems from a report to a range deputy by two persons |
| 1:36.5 | who say they believe that the two girls whom they picked up in the area of Green Valley |
| 1:41.3 | and took to the border Monday night may have been the missing couple. |
| 1:50.4 | August 26th. Four persons reported that they saw Gretchen and Wendy Fritz boarding a bus for either |
| 1:59.1 | Homocio or Guimus, Sonora, Mexico. |
| 2:02.6 | Sheriff Walden v. Burr said, |
| 2:04.6 | 10 Nogales residents saw them in the area and later identified them from photos. |
| 2:09.6 | But no trace has been found since Wednesday. |
| 2:13.6 | A check with the Mexican consulate and immigration authorities revealed that the girls have gone into Mexico without tourist permits. |
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