Was a College Student’s Murder Solved 40 Years Later?
3 min readMar 13, 2019
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In 1978, Susan Marie Schmidt was a 21-year-old Glendale, Arizona, resident and honors student at Arizona State University. The former cheerleader was an energetic and passionate tutor described as driven. She hoped to work as a probation officer in the future.
On March 22, Susan drove to the mall near Northern and 59th Avenues in Glendale. It was at 8:30 p.m. that a…
