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Gretchen Fritz

Case from Tucson, AZ dated Aug 16, 1965

Victim Details

Gretchen Fritz

Female

White / Caucasian

Tucson

AZ

1965-08-16

17

Gretchen

Fritz

06/25/2026

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In the summer of 1965, the city of Tucson, Arizona, was gripped by a story that began with the disappearance of two sisters and ended with the unmasking of a charismatic killer. Seventeen-year-old Gretchen Fritz, a white female, and her thirteen-year-old sister, Wendy, vanished on the evening of August 16th after heading out to a drive-in movie. Their failure to return home sparked immediate concern from their parents, a prominent local heart surgeon and his wife. As days turned into weeks with ...
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