Daughter of Harry Russell Schuh and Margaret Elnora Childs. Married to Virgil Glover.
Below is an excerpt from the book Midnight Assassins.
Chapter 34 , has the account about the crime committed by,
Charles Harvey Odom to Lisa Schuh in Joplin, Missouri in 1961.
Chapter 34
The brutal Assault of Lisa Schuh, One of the Most Heinous Rapes
in Jasper County History
Lisa Schuh, a pretty thirteen-year old school-girl from Wichita, was visiting her grandmother , Eula Childs, in Joplin on Sunday afternoon, July 23, 1961 when she decided to taker her little dog for a walk. Leaving her grandmother's house at 731 Porter about 4:15 p.m., she started down an alley behind the house and had gone but a short distance when a man in a green and white 1956 Chevrolet pulled up beside her and ask her a question.
Vernon Stephens, who was painting inside a garage that fronted on the alley, looked out a window and saw the man pull out a road map as if asking the girl for directions. Stephens heard the girl reply that she couldn't help. Suddenly the girl clasped her hand over her mouth in horror, and the man jumped out of the car, grabbed her by the arm, and hustled her and her dog into the automobile. When the man got back in the car, Stephens saw what had caused the girl's alarm. The man held a pistol in his right hand and was waving it threateningly at the girl, as she cowered in terror on the other side of the front seat. Stephens got a look at the man's face and also hurried into the street as the kidnapper drove away in time to see that the car bore a Kansas license with the tag number SU-1-0204.
Stephens quickly notified the girl's grandmother, who told Lisa's older brother to call the police. A manhunt involving hundreds of officers from all of the Tri-State area was launched almost immediately. Detective Charles Hickman of the Joplin Police came on duty about 5:00 p.m. and promptly joined the search. After driving around for several minutes in the area of the chat piles at the northwest edge of Joplin, Hickman spotted a car near the intersection of Belle Center Road and Schifferdecker that seemed to fit the description Stephens had been given. Hickman, driving an unmarked car, followed the vehicle south on Schifferdecker and confirmed that the license plate number also matched. The officer radioed for backup, and he and Sergeant Jack Fay stopped the vehicle near the intersection of Seventh and Schifferdecker.
The officers found a girl's bloody blouse, a pair of shorts with a flowered design, a pair of panties, and a pair of blue, ballet-type slippers in a heap on the floorboard of the backseat. Beneath the front seat the officers found a .22 caliber automatic pistol. Also found in the car were some men's clothes on it as well. The policemen placed the driver under arrest and took him to the station for interrogation.
The suspect, identified as twenty-nine-year-old Charles Harvey Odom, said he'd been to Springfield to visit his mother and was on his was back to his home in Wellington, Kansas. He had stopped on Seventh Street at a filling station just west of Maiden Lane to get gas, but he denied abducting the girl or knowing anything about it.
Meanwhile, those looking for the missing girl continued to concentrate their search northwest of Joplin, and shortly after 7:00 p.m., three Kansas lawmen and an area resident spotted her little dog on the east side of JJ Highway about a mile north of Belle Center. Looking around, they found Lisa in some dense underbrush, near death and clad only in a brassiere. She had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and one large wound on top of her head had laid open her skull and exposed her brain. She was rushed to Freeman Hospital in Joplin and soon forwarded to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, where she underwent brain surgery.
Lisa stayed in a coma for several weeks and underwent more surgery. She finally began to show signs of recovery about the first of September, although she remained partially paralyzed on the right side of her body.
In mid-September, Odom waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial. About the same time, Lisa was released from the Springfield hospital and taken home to Wichita.
In early 1965, Lisa Schuh spoke to a Wichita civic group. She had come a long way in three and a half years but was still partially paralyzed on her right side and was still in physical therapy. Joking that her recovery was easy, she said, I just see something I can't do and set out to do it. And pretty soon I can. Briefly in Joplin at a meeting of the local Sertoma Club, which had raised funds for her medical treatment. "I give my thanks, many of them," she said, "to you persons who were so good to me."
By the age of twenty, Lisa had regained enough of her verbal and quantitative skills to graduate from high school. Afterward she worked briefly in a hospital cafeteria, but her lingering health issues cut short her working years. In 1994, when she was forty-six, reporter interviewed her for a story about capital punishment. She was living in Barton County with a twenty-two-year-old son. Her right arm was still unstable, she still spoke in broken patterns, and her ordeal had left her jaded on the question of the death penalty. She wondered only why Odom not not be executed promptly after raping her and leaving her for dead. Speaking of the crime she said, "It just doesn't go away. I think of it every day, every night."
Below is an excerpt from the book Midnight Assassins.
Chapter 34 , has the account about the crime committed by,
Charles Harvey Odom to Lisa Schuh in Joplin, Missouri in 1961.
Chapter 34
The brutal Assault of Lisa Schuh, One of the Most Heinous Rapes
in Jasper County History
Lisa Schuh, a pretty thirteen-year old school-girl from Wichita, was visiting her grandmother , Eula Childs, in Joplin on Sunday afternoon, July 23, 1961 when she decided to taker her little dog for a walk. Leaving her grandmother's house at 731 Porter about 4:15 p.m., she started down an alley behind the house and had gone but a short distance when a man in a green and white 1956 Chevrolet pulled up beside her and ask her a question.
Vernon Stephens, who was painting inside a garage that fronted on the alley, looked out a window and saw the man pull out a road map as if asking the girl for directions. Stephens heard the girl reply that she couldn't help. Suddenly the girl clasped her hand over her mouth in horror, and the man jumped out of the car, grabbed her by the arm, and hustled her and her dog into the automobile. When the man got back in the car, Stephens saw what had caused the girl's alarm. The man held a pistol in his right hand and was waving it threateningly at the girl, as she cowered in terror on the other side of the front seat. Stephens got a look at the man's face and also hurried into the street as the kidnapper drove away in time to see that the car bore a Kansas license with the tag number SU-1-0204.
Stephens quickly notified the girl's grandmother, who told Lisa's older brother to call the police. A manhunt involving hundreds of officers from all of the Tri-State area was launched almost immediately. Detective Charles Hickman of the Joplin Police came on duty about 5:00 p.m. and promptly joined the search. After driving around for several minutes in the area of the chat piles at the northwest edge of Joplin, Hickman spotted a car near the intersection of Belle Center Road and Schifferdecker that seemed to fit the description Stephens had been given. Hickman, driving an unmarked car, followed the vehicle south on Schifferdecker and confirmed that the license plate number also matched. The officer radioed for backup, and he and Sergeant Jack Fay stopped the vehicle near the intersection of Seventh and Schifferdecker.
The officers found a girl's bloody blouse, a pair of shorts with a flowered design, a pair of panties, and a pair of blue, ballet-type slippers in a heap on the floorboard of the backseat. Beneath the front seat the officers found a .22 caliber automatic pistol. Also found in the car were some men's clothes on it as well. The policemen placed the driver under arrest and took him to the station for interrogation.
The suspect, identified as twenty-nine-year-old Charles Harvey Odom, said he'd been to Springfield to visit his mother and was on his was back to his home in Wellington, Kansas. He had stopped on Seventh Street at a filling station just west of Maiden Lane to get gas, but he denied abducting the girl or knowing anything about it.
Meanwhile, those looking for the missing girl continued to concentrate their search northwest of Joplin, and shortly after 7:00 p.m., three Kansas lawmen and an area resident spotted her little dog on the east side of JJ Highway about a mile north of Belle Center. Looking around, they found Lisa in some dense underbrush, near death and clad only in a brassiere. She had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and one large wound on top of her head had laid open her skull and exposed her brain. She was rushed to Freeman Hospital in Joplin and soon forwarded to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, where she underwent brain surgery.
Lisa stayed in a coma for several weeks and underwent more surgery. She finally began to show signs of recovery about the first of September, although she remained partially paralyzed on the right side of her body.
In mid-September, Odom waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial. About the same time, Lisa was released from the Springfield hospital and taken home to Wichita.
In early 1965, Lisa Schuh spoke to a Wichita civic group. She had come a long way in three and a half years but was still partially paralyzed on her right side and was still in physical therapy. Joking that her recovery was easy, she said, I just see something I can't do and set out to do it. And pretty soon I can. Briefly in Joplin at a meeting of the local Sertoma Club, which had raised funds for her medical treatment. "I give my thanks, many of them," she said, "to you persons who were so good to me."
By the age of twenty, Lisa had regained enough of her verbal and quantitative skills to graduate from high school. Afterward she worked briefly in a hospital cafeteria, but her lingering health issues cut short her working years. In 1994, when she was forty-six, reporter interviewed her for a story about capital punishment. She was living in Barton County with a twenty-two-year-old son. Her right arm was still unstable, she still spoke in broken patterns, and her ordeal had left her jaded on the question of the death penalty. She wondered only why Odom not not be executed promptly after raping her and leaving her for dead. Speaking of the crime she said, "It just doesn't go away. I think of it every day, every night."
Daughter of Harry Russell Schuh and Margaret Elnora Childs. Married to Virgil Glover.
Below is an excerpt from the book Midnight Assassins.
Chapter 34 , has the account about the crime committed by,
Charles Harvey Odom to Lisa Schuh in Joplin, Missouri in 1961.
Chapter 34
The brutal Assault of Lisa Schuh, One of the Most Heinous Rapes
in Jasper County History
Lisa Schuh, a pretty thirteen-year old school-girl from Wichita, was visiting her grandmother , Eula Childs, in Joplin on Sunday afternoon, July 23, 1961 when she decided to taker her little dog for a walk. Leaving her grandmother's house at 731 Porter about 4:15 p.m., she started down an alley behind the house and had gone but a short distance when a man in a green and white 1956 Chevrolet pulled up beside her and ask her a question.
Vernon Stephens, who was painting inside a garage that fronted on the alley, looked out a window and saw the man pull out a road map as if asking the girl for directions. Stephens heard the girl reply that she couldn't help. Suddenly the girl clasped her hand over her mouth in horror, and the man jumped out of the car, grabbed her by the arm, and hustled her and her dog into the automobile. When the man got back in the car, Stephens saw what had caused the girl's alarm. The man held a pistol in his right hand and was waving it threateningly at the girl, as she cowered in terror on the other side of the front seat. Stephens got a look at the man's face and also hurried into the street as the kidnapper drove away in time to see that the car bore a Kansas license with the tag number SU-1-0204.
Stephens quickly notified the girl's grandmother, who told Lisa's older brother to call the police. A manhunt involving hundreds of officers from all of the Tri-State area was launched almost immediately. Detective Charles Hickman of the Joplin Police came on duty about 5:00 p.m. and promptly joined the search. After driving around for several minutes in the area of the chat piles at the northwest edge of Joplin, Hickman spotted a car near the intersection of Belle Center Road and Schifferdecker that seemed to fit the description Stephens had been given. Hickman, driving an unmarked car, followed the vehicle south on Schifferdecker and confirmed that the license plate number also matched. The officer radioed for backup, and he and Sergeant Jack Fay stopped the vehicle near the intersection of Seventh and Schifferdecker.
The officers found a girl's bloody blouse, a pair of shorts with a flowered design, a pair of panties, and a pair of blue, ballet-type slippers in a heap on the floorboard of the backseat. Beneath the front seat the officers found a .22 caliber automatic pistol. Also found in the car were some men's clothes on it as well. The policemen placed the driver under arrest and took him to the station for interrogation.
The suspect, identified as twenty-nine-year-old Charles Harvey Odom, said he'd been to Springfield to visit his mother and was on his was back to his home in Wellington, Kansas. He had stopped on Seventh Street at a filling station just west of Maiden Lane to get gas, but he denied abducting the girl or knowing anything about it.
Meanwhile, those looking for the missing girl continued to concentrate their search northwest of Joplin, and shortly after 7:00 p.m., three Kansas lawmen and an area resident spotted her little dog on the east side of JJ Highway about a mile north of Belle Center. Looking around, they found Lisa in some dense underbrush, near death and clad only in a brassiere. She had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and one large wound on top of her head had laid open her skull and exposed her brain. She was rushed to Freeman Hospital in Joplin and soon forwarded to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, where she underwent brain surgery.
Lisa stayed in a coma for several weeks and underwent more surgery. She finally began to show signs of recovery about the first of September, although she remained partially paralyzed on the right side of her body.
In mid-September, Odom waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial. About the same time, Lisa was released from the Springfield hospital and taken home to Wichita.
In early 1965, Lisa Schuh spoke to a Wichita civic group. She had come a long way in three and a half years but was still partially paralyzed on her right side and was still in physical therapy. Joking that her recovery was easy, she said, I just see something I can't do and set out to do it. And pretty soon I can. Briefly in Joplin at a meeting of the local Sertoma Club, which had raised funds for her medical treatment. "I give my thanks, many of them," she said, "to you persons who were so good to me."
By the age of twenty, Lisa had regained enough of her verbal and quantitative skills to graduate from high school. Afterward she worked briefly in a hospital cafeteria, but her lingering health issues cut short her working years. In 1994, when she was forty-six, reporter interviewed her for a story about capital punishment. She was living in Barton County with a twenty-two-year-old son. Her right arm was still unstable, she still spoke in broken patterns, and her ordeal had left her jaded on the question of the death penalty. She wondered only why Odom not not be executed promptly after raping her and leaving her for dead. Speaking of the crime she said, "It just doesn't go away. I think of it every day, every night."
Below is an excerpt from the book Midnight Assassins.
Chapter 34 , has the account about the crime committed by,
Charles Harvey Odom to Lisa Schuh in Joplin, Missouri in 1961.
Chapter 34
The brutal Assault of Lisa Schuh, One of the Most Heinous Rapes
in Jasper County History
Lisa Schuh, a pretty thirteen-year old school-girl from Wichita, was visiting her grandmother , Eula Childs, in Joplin on Sunday afternoon, July 23, 1961 when she decided to taker her little dog for a walk. Leaving her grandmother's house at 731 Porter about 4:15 p.m., she started down an alley behind the house and had gone but a short distance when a man in a green and white 1956 Chevrolet pulled up beside her and ask her a question.
Vernon Stephens, who was painting inside a garage that fronted on the alley, looked out a window and saw the man pull out a road map as if asking the girl for directions. Stephens heard the girl reply that she couldn't help. Suddenly the girl clasped her hand over her mouth in horror, and the man jumped out of the car, grabbed her by the arm, and hustled her and her dog into the automobile. When the man got back in the car, Stephens saw what had caused the girl's alarm. The man held a pistol in his right hand and was waving it threateningly at the girl, as she cowered in terror on the other side of the front seat. Stephens got a look at the man's face and also hurried into the street as the kidnapper drove away in time to see that the car bore a Kansas license with the tag number SU-1-0204.
Stephens quickly notified the girl's grandmother, who told Lisa's older brother to call the police. A manhunt involving hundreds of officers from all of the Tri-State area was launched almost immediately. Detective Charles Hickman of the Joplin Police came on duty about 5:00 p.m. and promptly joined the search. After driving around for several minutes in the area of the chat piles at the northwest edge of Joplin, Hickman spotted a car near the intersection of Belle Center Road and Schifferdecker that seemed to fit the description Stephens had been given. Hickman, driving an unmarked car, followed the vehicle south on Schifferdecker and confirmed that the license plate number also matched. The officer radioed for backup, and he and Sergeant Jack Fay stopped the vehicle near the intersection of Seventh and Schifferdecker.
The officers found a girl's bloody blouse, a pair of shorts with a flowered design, a pair of panties, and a pair of blue, ballet-type slippers in a heap on the floorboard of the backseat. Beneath the front seat the officers found a .22 caliber automatic pistol. Also found in the car were some men's clothes on it as well. The policemen placed the driver under arrest and took him to the station for interrogation.
The suspect, identified as twenty-nine-year-old Charles Harvey Odom, said he'd been to Springfield to visit his mother and was on his was back to his home in Wellington, Kansas. He had stopped on Seventh Street at a filling station just west of Maiden Lane to get gas, but he denied abducting the girl or knowing anything about it.
Meanwhile, those looking for the missing girl continued to concentrate their search northwest of Joplin, and shortly after 7:00 p.m., three Kansas lawmen and an area resident spotted her little dog on the east side of JJ Highway about a mile north of Belle Center. Looking around, they found Lisa in some dense underbrush, near death and clad only in a brassiere. She had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and one large wound on top of her head had laid open her skull and exposed her brain. She was rushed to Freeman Hospital in Joplin and soon forwarded to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, where she underwent brain surgery.
Lisa stayed in a coma for several weeks and underwent more surgery. She finally began to show signs of recovery about the first of September, although she remained partially paralyzed on the right side of her body.
In mid-September, Odom waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial. About the same time, Lisa was released from the Springfield hospital and taken home to Wichita.
In early 1965, Lisa Schuh spoke to a Wichita civic group. She had come a long way in three and a half years but was still partially paralyzed on her right side and was still in physical therapy. Joking that her recovery was easy, she said, I just see something I can't do and set out to do it. And pretty soon I can. Briefly in Joplin at a meeting of the local Sertoma Club, which had raised funds for her medical treatment. "I give my thanks, many of them," she said, "to you persons who were so good to me."
By the age of twenty, Lisa had regained enough of her verbal and quantitative skills to graduate from high school. Afterward she worked briefly in a hospital cafeteria, but her lingering health issues cut short her working years. In 1994, when she was forty-six, reporter interviewed her for a story about capital punishment. She was living in Barton County with a twenty-two-year-old son. Her right arm was still unstable, she still spoke in broken patterns, and her ordeal had left her jaded on the question of the death penalty. She wondered only why Odom not not be executed promptly after raping her and leaving her for dead. Speaking of the crime she said, "It just doesn't go away. I think of it every day, every night."
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