The Unsolved Murder of the Schultz Children
Gail and Paul Schultz Around five o'clock on Saturday evening, March 7, 1953, a TV repairman was at work in his basement workshop, unaware that he was about to step into a nightmare more terrifying than any late-night horror flick that he or his customers had ever viewed on their television screen. When Paul Schultz went upstairs in his home in Nazareth, his wife, Claire, asked him to go out and look for their two children, who hadn't been seen since two o'clock, when they left the house to look for rocks. There was little reason to worry; 18-year-old Gail was a responsible and intelligent girl, and her 12-year-old half-brother, Paul, Jr., though mentally handicapped, clung to Gail's side as though she were his own mother. The search for the Schultz children didn't take very long at all. Paul found his children in minutes. But, tragically, their bodies lay partially submerged in the shallow, ice-crusted stream behind their Mitchell Avenue home. It seemed that Gai...
