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Diana Dean ENG 1102 Sandra Rourke December 7, 2014 A CONTINUED STUDY OF THE REAL LIFE STORY BEHIND â€Å"WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?† AND OF SERIAL KILLERS IN GENERAL The name of the man behind Joyce Carol Oates’s short story, â€Å"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?† is Charles Schmid, Jr. or â€Å"Smitty† as he was called by most everyone who knew him. I use both names interchangeably. The names of Schmid’s victims were Alleen Rowe whom he killed on May 31, 1964, with the help of two friends, John Saunders and Mary French; and Gretchen Fritz, and her sister, Wendy Fritz, whom he killed on August 16, 1965. My outside research on Charles Schmid, Jr. included reading the book, â€Å"Cold-Blooded, The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious ‘Pied Piper of Tucson’† written by John Gilmore; reading the book, â€Å"Catching Serial Killers: Learning from Past Serial Murder Investigations† written by Earl James; and searching â€Å"Charles Schmid, Jr.† and â€Å"serial killers† on the Internet. How the minds of serial killers work is a very interesting subject indeed. I marvel at how a person could take the life of another human being – and enjoy it. Motivations behind one wanting to kill another can stem from feeling dismissed or rebuffed, the need for power and the need for perfection. It is also possible that a serial killer is trying to overcome some sort of physical limitation. 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