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Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid, Jr. (July 8, 1942 - March 30, 1975), also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson," was an American serial killer. His crime, profiled in the March 4, 1966 issue of Life Magazine, inspired "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, and "The Lost," a novel by Jack Ketchum. The 1971 movie The Todd Killings is based on the Schmid case.Schmid's crimes also inspired the 1995 film "Dead Beat," starring Bruce Ramsay, Balthazar Getty, and Natasha Gregson Wagner.
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