[CometBaby]

The Borden girl's middle name is listed as Beth. I'm guessing it's Elizabeth, so they could have called her "Lizzie Borden"??

[Turbopilot]

Does PA have the death penalty? If so, it sounds like the boyfriend just volunteered for it.

I wonder if the girl will be charged. That "Lizzie Borden" thing is eerie...I wonder if it's like having the middle name "Wayne"?

[newzjunkey]

No surprise here. She needs to be charged as an accessory.

[injin]

'something' is just not getting through to alot of these young ladies these days....Natalee ? Taylor?
What more can parents do to get through into their little secret worlds they start creating at about age 12 or 13?
How can true life wisdom and interest in doing the right thing
and maintaining virtue be cultivated ?
Girls these days , some of them, just seem to want to throw it all away as quickly as possible. Don't they know they will spend their lives regretting it? If they make it....

[KarinG1]

He may be getting married soon, but it won't be to a girl. The boy confessed he did it, when will he stop being an 'alleged' killer? I was never even convicted of killing that prime minister and everybody still refers to me as an assassin. They probably always will, but it's cool. I'm used to it.

[Iris7]

Perhaps some of the old timers recollect Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate.

On January 28, 1958, Charles Starkweather went to the house of his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate (fifteen years of age). At her house, he argued with and shot Caril Ann's mother and stepfather and strangled Caril Ann's two-year-old sister. Caril Ann got home just in time to witness all three murders.

Starkweather hid the bodies at various places behind the house. The two stayed in the house for several more days, turning people away with a note taped to the door, written by Caril, that read: "Stay a Way Every Body is sick with the Flue [sic]." Caril Ann's grandmother became suspicious and called the police.

When police arrived Charles and Caril Ann had already left. In the following three days, Starkweather shot or stabbed 7 people to death. The first killing was when Charles robbed a gas station and abducted attendant Robert Colvert. He drove Colvert to a secluded spot and executed him with shotgun fire into the gut and then to the head. Just to watch him die, I guess.

The dead:

1. Robert Colvert (21), gas station attendant
2. Marion Bartlett, Caril Ann's stepfather
3. Velda Bartlett, Caril Ann's mother
4. Betty Jean Bartlett (2), Marion and Velda's daughter
5. August Meyer (72), Starkweather's family friend
6. Robert Jensen (17)
7. Carol King (16), Robert's girlfriend
8. Clara Ward, C. Lauer Ward's wife
9. C. Lauer Ward (47), wealthy industrialist
10. Lillian Fencl (51), Clara Ward's maid
11. Merle Collison, travelling salesman

Caril Ann Fugate was fifteen years old. She watched Starkweather kill her mother and stepfather and then strangle her two year old sister. She went with Starkweather on his killing spree. Who knows if she pulled a trigger or two?