The Pied Piper is the sixth book in the Bloodlands series. This one was super interesting to me. I had never heard of Charles Schmid Jr. before.
He convinced a girlfriend and friend to help him find a girl to rape and murder. After this he was anything but quiet about it, but no one ever took him seriously or reported it.

Then, he murdered his girlfriend (different from the one who helped him lure the first victim) and her young sister. Again, he didn’t really hide this fact. A friend who knew of the body dumpsite, finally told his father who called the police.

He was sentenced to death, escaped prison and was eventually recaptured. The death penalty was abolished by the Supreme Court and he was serving life without parole when he was stabbed to death by two other inmates. No motive was given, but I imagine it was due to basically getting away with his life after killing the 3 young women.

This was probably my favorite book in the series. All in all, it was a great series of lesser known true crime stories of the past.