Bad Luck That Young Women Face
...ree serial killers were popular during and after high school, were well-dressed, well-mannered, and “normal.” However, they seldom dated girls while in high school. Smitty and Ted did not know who their real parents were until they were in their early twenties. They were not the type of men that would be considered serial killers by people who knew them (Ramsland). Arnold Friend may not have raped or murdered his victim in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Instead the story ends with Connie going out of the house and leaving with him. It is not evident how Arnold murdered Connie. However, Arnold told Connie that he was her “lover.” He told her that he knew that she was the “one” for him. He stalked her, therefore knowing everything about her. Arnold reeled Connie in by telling her what she wanted to hear, that he loved her and she was the “one.” This led Connie to finally give up on getting him to leave. She knew what was going to happen, she would never see her family again, so she went out of the house and left with Arnold. Therefore the reader does not know how everything ends up for Connie or Arnold. The reader is left not knowing what happens with Connie or Arnold (Oates 357). Charles Schmid murdered three young women. The victims disappeared in the night. Charles murdered his first victim, Alleen Rowe, in the desert in Tucson, Arizona. He hit her with a shovel and with a sharp rock on the head and then buried her in the desert. His last two murders were sisters, Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. He led Gretchen believe that he loved her. Charles took them to his house and strangled them and then took them out to the desert and buried them (Ramsland). Ted Bundy’s method of murdering his victims was quite similar to the way that Charles Schmid murdered his victims. Ted Bundy confessed to murdering forty women, however, there were over one hundred women murdered that were linked to Ted Bundy. Ted would make fake casts and use crutches and ask women for help. The young women would also disappear at night. He would rape them and them hit them on the head with a blunt object that became known as a crowbar. He would sometimes dismember them or leave them as they were, but with objects shoved up there vaginas. Ted would leave their bodies in the mountains, deserts, national parks, on the side of the road, in their bedrooms, and many other locations (Lohr). One thing that all these unfortunate women had in common was they all disappeared during the night. Their killers reeled them in and brutally beat them. Arnold, Charles, and Ted all used their feelings to get the young women to leave with them to go someplace. When Charles and Ted were arrested they pleaded innocent even though they knew they were guilty. They both died in prison. Charles Schmid was stabbed by another prisoner and died in the hospital on March 30, 1975 (Ramsland). Ted Bundy died in the electric chair on January 24, 1989 (Bell). The victims of Arnold Friend, Charles Schmid, and Ted Bundy were all similar. Connie was Arnold Friend’s only victim in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Connie was fifteen years old and pretty. She had long dark blonde hair that was pulled half up on her head and the rest she let fall down her back and brown eyes. Connie had a childlike walk and a high-pitched laugh. She had charms on her bracelet that jingled from her thin wrist and she wore flat ballerina slippers that scuffed the sidewalk (Oates 349). Charles Schmid’s victims were similar to Connie. He had three victims all in Tucson, Arizona. Their ages were fifteen, sixteen, and thirteen. Alleen Rowe, Schmid’s first victim, was fifteen. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. She had above-average grades. She went out to hang out with her friend Mary, Charles’ lover, Charles, and John, a friend of Charles, after her mother left to work. She never returned home and her body was never found, but her hair curlers she was wearing the night of her death were found in the desert. Charles second and third victims, his last, were Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. Gretchen was sixteen years old and Wendy was thirteen. Gretchen was rich, had blonde hair, and was thin. She was the misfit in her fa...