I, Squealer is a book written by Richard Bruns, about his friend Charles Schmid, The Pied Piper of Tucson. When Richard was 20, he got mixed up in the saga of the Pied Piper of Tucson, a serial killer who was also his best friend. Can you imagine that? I can't. It would be horrible, and even worse when he blames you for the murders. Richard wrote this years ago and put it aside after he finished. His daughter convinced him to publish it, for which I personally am glad. I found this to be a very fascinating book. A story that needed to be told. I could not put this book down! I had to know more and more. I highly recommend this book! It is an excellent book, written by someone who actually went through the situation. ( )

An amazing account of a young man’s nightmare of watching his charismatic best friend descend into madness. The friend was Charles ‘Smitty’ Schmid, later to be dubbed The Pied Piper of Tucson, and back in the ‘60s, he was the town's teen idol. But he began to change, his appearance became bizarre, his behavior cruel and heartless. Before it was over the bodies of three young girls were left in the desert. And even though Schmid bragged to his friends about the killings, only one – his best friend - was willing to violate the teen code against squealing. This is the journal that friend, Richard Bruns, wrote immediately after the arrests and the tension and fear he felt then are still palpably real on its pages. His later account of what it cost him to come forward is almost as incredible as the story his journal reveals. Compulsively readable from beginning to end. ( )