“Joe was a charmer. He was like the kind of student that would try to use his charm to kind of get out of a lot of things,” said Marilyn Skowron, who taught at Holy Cross for 22 years and now teaches English at Guerin College Preparatory High School. “He was an average student, but he would try like batting his eyelashes at you and try to make you feel like, ‘Oh yeah, I'll give you a break.’ ”