![]() One of Bruce Springsteen’s best albums is built around the song Nebraska, which is a dire first-person account of the crimes. ![]() Movies have been made and made again about it. Stephen King was said to have followed it closely in his youth. Join Kendare as she runs down five films that were inspired by the same crimes. This case also gripped the nation and it exists in the popular consciousness either understood or misunderstood. It was inspired in part by the 11-victim murder spree committed by Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, and also by the murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, perpetrated by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Starkweather became a flashpoint in America for a 1950’s moral panic that put the crosshairs squarely on then-contemporary media items like true crime magazines, comic books, juvenile delinquency movies, and rock and roll. She was terrorized into being an accomplice and lost almost 20 years of her life in prison because of this loser. He was accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate whose parents were among the victims. He was a loser who painted himself into a corner with his own bad decisions and murdered to cover up previous crimes. Charles Starkweather AP Starkweather was a teenager when he went on a two-month killing spree in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958 which claimed 10 lives. Starkweather and Fugate were not couples killers like Bernardo and Homolka or Fred and Rose West. Though, as we’ll see, his relationship to Caril Fugate, may not have been the Bonnie and Clyde, love-against-the-odds fairy tale that modern American folklore and media have made it out to be. In truth, he was an 18 year old burnout with no prospects for the future and no problem being a legal adult with a 13 year old girlfriend. Sensationalized to a ridiculous degree, Starkweather began a killing spree in 1957 that would end in the electric chair after 11 people had been murdered during his 60 days on the run. The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage by Linda Battisti and John BerryĬharles Starkweather is the subject of one America’s most misguided criminal fairy tales. Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey Of Charles Starkweather And Caril Ann Fugate by Michael Newton
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