COLD-BLOODED is the classic account of the murder of three young
girls by Charles Schmid, Jr., teen-age idol of the lower depths of
Tucson, Arizona in the Hot-Rodder mid-60s-a lost city surrounded by
a bone-dry ocean of rocky deserts. Lover to many scrawny, broken
girls, Schmid a champion gymnast-turned-half-baked philosopher and
ultimately a lonely boy disguising an emptiness so vast that he
sought to fill it by seeing how far he could go. "Racing through
life at a million miles an hour," he wrote, Schmid claimed he
sought the thrill of "Death's closeness" and finally reaching for
the thrill of "that ultimate experience." COLD-BLOODED gives the
reader a step-by-step account of the series of events which led
Schmid to "killing for the thrill of it," from finding out what he
always suspected, but dreaded-that he was nothing but an orphan,
unwanted by his real mother the day he was born-to his strange,
chaotic relation with a girl he described as being a "wreck,
looking for it to happen," which led to his final killings. A
high-profile murder case at the time, Schmid's trial became a
launching pad for superstar defense attorney F. Lee Bailey and a
sick inspiration to still-incarcerated Charles Manson. Drawn from
author John Gilmore's first-hand encounters, COLD-BLOODED contains
a wealth of information on Schmid, including extensive interviews
describing the way his view of the world, and interviews with his
teenage hangers-on, who describe at length what a larger-than-life
phenomenon "Smitty" became for them. This is an intimate portrait
of the seething, desperate-for-action teenage scene of the
mid-1960's, through a focus on Schmid who pushed everything further
that his contemporaries, allowing us to see the pitiful and
frightening aspects of these aberrant, chronic runaway children,
heirs to an empty culture and a rootless society.
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