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To: swain_forkbeard

What/who is Starkweather?.............


28 posted on 03/04/2008 1:08:43 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger
Serial killer in the 1950s. He and his underage girlfriend got their start after killing her parents and then went on a spree.

The award-winning movie badlands was made about it and Natural Born Killers boorows heavily from that earlier movie.

30 posted on 03/04/2008 1:11:02 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Red Badger
Wikipedia:

Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was a spree killer who murdered 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his underage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. He became a national fascination in the USA, eventually inspiring the films The Sadist, Badlands, Starkweather, Murder in the Heartland and Natural Born Killers. He also inspired the Bruce Springsteen song "Nebraska".

Me:

Badlands starred a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. 1973 film, I believe.

34 posted on 03/04/2008 1:12:29 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Red Badger

Famous case. Fifties, I think. Maybe early sixties. The movie Badlands, starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, and Warren Oates, is about the case.


38 posted on 03/04/2008 1:14:33 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Red Badger
"What/who is Starkweather?............."

Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather

From Wikipedia on Caril Ann Fugate

"Fugate lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1956 she started dating Charles Starkweather. He was five years her senior, a dropout, and a truck unloader at the Western Newspaper Union warehouse.

On January 21, 1958, Fugate later claimed to have come home to find that Starkweather had shot Marion Bartlett, her stepfather, and her mother Velda to death. Fugate made lunch while Starkweather choked and stabbed her baby half-sister Betty Jean to death. (Starkweather, on the other hand, claimed that she had been in the home during all three murders.)

During the next seven days, the pair lived in the house with the bodies and turned away all visitors, which made Fugate's relatives suspicious. Starkweather and Fugate then fled, driving across Nebraska on a spree of robberies and murders that claimed seven more lives before they were arrested.

Fugate's downfall was admitting to holding a .410 shotgun on a young high school couple in a car while robbing them of $4.00. The couple were shot and killed later that evening. The girl was found partially naked, and she was brutally stabbed multiple times in the abdomen after being shot.

Starkweather and Fugate accused each other of the girl's murder. Starkweather admitted to killing the boy."

83 posted on 03/04/2008 2:27:20 PM PST by Mila
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