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Am I wrong could this be the TRUE STORY! FEEDBACK?


First read the recount at the link, I provided below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Wight

I came across this on Wikipedia. I found no info to support it. However, It sounds like the true account; The Lost was loosely based around. I admit it’s been three years since I saw The Lost. However, the beginning of the movie follows what happened to Rebecca Wight almost to a T. Right down to the nude encounter at the outhouse.

Taken from Wikipedia.

It was Wight who first encountered Stephen Roy Carr. She had walked into a public restroom near their campground, nude except for her shoes because she thought no one else was there.
There she ran into Stephen Roy Carr. Carr, 22, sometimes lived in a cave and carried a .22 caliber rifle. He asked Wight for a cigarette. She said she didn't have one, and hurried back to the campsite, where she told Brenner that someone else was there. The couple dressed, and decided to find a more private campsite "Unseen by the couple, Carr watched them from 82 feet away. He raised his rifle and fired eight bullets at the women. Brenner was hit in the arm, face, head and neck.


Stephen Ray Carr is the real name of the male convicted in killing Rebecca Wight. Ray Pye is the name used in the movie.

I am interested to hear if others think this is the true account, as well.


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More than likely, Ketchum did use that story as influence for that scene. Ketchum is known to pull his stories straight from the headlines.

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Yeah, that's true, he does pull stories from headlines. I remember reaearching The Girl Next Door and finding out that he had seen the true story on a Forensic Files type of show or book, and that was what gave him the idea for the book. The mother and her children being involved in some sort of kidnapping/torture, along with the neighborhood kids being involved - this was all true. Although, for some reason, I seem to remember the original story had actually happened in the 70's. That doesn't really make sense, but my brain keeps coming back to that. Who knows.

I've got two good posts in me and I just wrote my third...

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Actually the book is loosely based around the serial killer CHarles Schmid.

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This book/movie was actually based on two separate murder cases. The first being Stephen Roy Carr and the second being Charles Schmid. This, I believe, has been confirmed by the author of the book Jack Ketchum. If you look into the cases themselves it is actually very obvious that these stories were used as inspiration.

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I read the book 25 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schmid

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There's no doubt it was partly based on the 60's murderer Charles Schmid aka "the Pied Piper of Tucson", but it doesn't surprise me Ketchum would use more than one real-life source. . .

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The movie is a fictionalized true story (as was "The Girl Next Door"), so it isn't surprising he incoporated more than one true story.

This is the THIRD story I know of based on 60's killer Charles Schmid. There was a movie in the early 70's called "The Todd Killings". Then in the 80's there was the movie "Smooth Talk" which was based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" that was directly inspired by the Schmid murders.

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Regarding "Smooth Talk," are you talking about the movie w/Laura Dern & Treat Williams? I had no idea "Smooth Talk" was based on anything remotely close to a serial killer. I'll have to look up that short - thanks for the info!

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In that Wikipedia article on Charles Schmid, it says "victims: 3-4". If you read through it, there is Aileen Rowe and then later the Fritz sisters Wendy and Gretchen. So who is the possibly 4th?

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