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Glenda Sue Carter

Case from Mesa, AZ dated Nov 12, 1966

Victim Details

Glenda Sue Carter

Female

White / Caucasian

Mesa

AZ

1966-11-12

18

Glenda

Sue Carter

06/22/2026

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On a tragic Saturday morning in Mesa, Arizona, the life of 18-year-old Glenda Sue Carter, a White female, was cut short in a senseless act of violence. On November 12, 1966, Carter was one of several victims in a mass shooting at the Rose-Mar College of Beauty. The gunman, 18-year-old Robert Benjamin Smith, entered the beauty school and forced Carter, along with other students and customers, into a back room.

Inside the room, Smith ordered the victims to lie down in a circle. When one of ...
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    I recently came across the 1966 Rose-Mar College of Beauty shooting case, and something that stuck w... ...Read More
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