[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?

[cricket]

Interesting. . .I remember.. .but had forgotten. . .

That said. . .and supposed evidence to back up this charge/assertion; I guess it is just a matter of time before they go and arrest her. ..or is there some hesitation going on here which is to say. .

. . ..'what are they waiting for'?

[BizzeeMom]

Just curious, are Starkweather and Fugate still living?

[MrNWA4Life]

Uh, Caril Ann Fugate was 14, not 15. She was born in July 1943.

[MrNWA4Life]

There’s no evidence that Caril Ann Fugate was anywhere near her home when her family was murdered. As for her half sister, she wasn’t strangled, her skull was smashed in with the butt of a rifle. There wasn’t really any evidence that killed anyone, ust Charlie’s testimony which he changed his stories seven times, while Caril always maintained the same story. She claimed that Charlie said he was holding her family hostage and that they would be safe as long as she did what he said. As for why she continued to stay with Charlie after killing August Meyer, Tim Roth (who played Chharlie in Murder In The Heartland) stated: “when you watch someone blow someone’s head off, you do what the person with the gun tells you”.