Posted on 06/25/2021 6:45:54 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Just past midnight this date in 1959, Charles Starkweather was electrocuted in Lincoln, Nebraska, for a mass-murdering road trip with his jailbait date that claimed ten lives.*
A loner and loser, Starkweather’s spree in January 1958 caught the national imagination and has never quite let it go since — the prototypical despair of miscarried white masculinity, a primal scream from the underbelly of the American dream.
Bowlegged, myopic, slightly speech-impaired, Starkweather was an outcast at school and fought back with his fists, then dropped out entirely and into a yawning dead-end economic life collecting garbage from the wealthier quarters of Lincoln. “The more I looked at people the more I hated them because I knowed they wasn’t any place for me with the kind of people I knowed,” he said in his confession. Starkweather palliated his isolation by aping James Dean, dreaming of a big robbery score, and losing his heart to 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate, in whose adolescent eyes the beaten boy felt his stature grow....
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I think this ‘couple’ was the model for the murderous couple in the movie The Frighteners (1996) starring Michael J. Fox...............................
[ the prototypical despair of miscarried white masculinity, a primal scream from the underbelly of the American dream. ]
[Bowlegged, myopic, slightly speech-impaired, Starkweather was an outcast at school and fought back with his fists, then dropped out entirely and into a yawning dead-end economic life collecting garbage from the wealthier quarters of Lincoln. ]
Don’t the two statements contradict each other?
Also more anti-white propaganda subtly put into the article as the main reason this crazy person killed people...
SICK SICK SICK
Prototypical Lefty smear tactics of the people they hate.
Starkweather gave no last words but in a letter from prison to his parents, wrote "But dad I'm not real sorry for what I did cause for the first time me and Caril have (sic) more fun."
The 1973 film Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek is a great take on the story.
...more anti-white propaganda subtly put into the article as the main reason this crazy person killed people...
nail on the head!
That was a very BIG DEAL at the time! I was 18 and remember it well. Nowadays, it’s almost an everyday occurrence.
They need to eve in global warming and sexual confusion and they have the trifecta.
Badlands - 1973: Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. It was based on the Starkweather murders, with names changed to protect the guilty.
I’ll have to check it out! Never heard of it! But I love Spacek!................
If you’re going to commit mass murder, don’t do it in Nebraska. Starkweather was executed just over a year after his conviction. In 1965, Duane Earl Pope murdered three people execution-style while robbing a bank in Big Springs, Neb., a sensational news item at the time. In 2021, Pope is still in prison for that crime.
Oh, brother. What a load.
For sure!
During the scene in the old hospital the ghost of the living girls mentions Starkweather twice. Talks about beating the Starkweather record.
Not a bad movie with an appearance by R Lee Ermey.
>>A loner and loser, Starkweather’s spree in January 1958 caught the national imagination and has never quite let it go since
media fascination with murder sprees by teenagers never has gone away and more have followed in their footsteps because of the media attention.
Note the (comparative) short time between the crime and the execution of 19 months! In today’s justice environment, the trial would just be starting.
Charles Starkweather’s first three victims were family members of his crime partner, 14yo Caril Ann Fugate; stepfather, Marion Bartlett, mother Velda baby half-sister, Betty Jean (2yo). He & Caril Ann Fugate, in their escape / murder spree, killed another 8 innocent people and 2 pet dogs. Included in this was a teenage couple, Robert Jensen and Carol King, being good samaritans, when Starkweather’s car got stuck in a ditch.
Caril Ann Fugate denied, in her own trial, Starkweather’s claim of voluntary murder of several of the victims but, due to not taking advantage of escape opportunities, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1958 at age 15. Following a US Supreme Court ruling on improper handling / conviction of minors, she was parole after 17 years in 1976. A request for a Nebraska Pardon in February 2020 was denied on the grounds that “pardon is to restore a felon’s rights, not to absolve them of crimes.”
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