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- Just in time for Halloween, here's a creepy story about, arguably, the first and worst serial killer in Wyoming, a woman named Polly Bartlett. Bartlett came to Wyoming with her father, brother and niece in 1868. They settled in South Pass City, which at the time was experience a mining boom and was one of the fastest growing cities in the state.
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Polly Bartlett, also known as The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch, is purported to have been a 19th-century murderer from the Wyoming Territory. She is said to have been the first serial killer in Wyoming, before it was even incorporated as a state.
Jan 14, 2020 · According to some accounts, they discovered the bodies of 22 young men who had been presumably poisoned by Wyoming's first, and worst, serial killer. In 1868, Polly Bartlett poisoned 22 men at her family's boarding house in South Pass City, Wyoming.
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Beaver, Ninette. Caril. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1974.McArthur, Jeff. Pro Bono: The 18 Year Defense of Caril Ann Fugate.Burbank, Calif.: Bandwagon Books, 2012.Newton, Michael. Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.New York: Pocket Books, 1998.O’Donnell, Jeff. Starkweather: A Story of Mass Murder on the Great Plains. Lincoln, Neb.: J&L Lee Publishing, 1993.(An article on the apprehension of Starkweather and Fugate can be found in nearly every newspaper on either Jan. 30 or Jan. 31, 1958, or both.)“Authorities Say Nebraska Youth Killed 10 People,” Casper Tribune-Herald, 30 Jan 1958, 5.“Charlie Wins a Pack of Cigarettes: Death Verdict Met Without Emotion,” Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Sun, 25 May 1958, 1.“Family Calls Starkweather Mad at World,” St. Petersburg Times, 30 Jan. 1958, 1.Bruce Springsteen. Nebraska, 1982.Church of Misery, Badlands, 2009.Del Shannon, Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow the Sun), 1965.Icky Blossoms. Stark Weather, 2012.Badlands(1973).Murder in the Heartland (1993).Natural Born Killers (1994).The Sadist(1963).Exit 151 on Interstate 25, 10 miles west of Douglas, Wyo., leads to the road to Ayres Natural Bridge, and is near the turnoff from the old U.S. Rte. 20-26 where Merle Collison was murdered and the police first caught up with Starkweather and Fugate. Starkweather fled east from there, through Douglas, and was captured about ten miles east of town on...
All the photos are by Chuck Morrison and Carl Ketchum of the Casper Tribune-Herald, from the Chuck Morrison Collection, Casper College Western History Center. Used with permission and thanks. The two Nebraska lawmen in the photo of Starkweather leaving jail are Sheriff Merle Kanopp of Lancaster County, Neb., and Captain Harold Smith of the Nebraska...
Oct 22, 2015 · Just in time for Halloween, here's a creepy story about, arguably, the first and worst serial killer in Wyoming, a woman named Polly Bartlett. Bartlett came to Wyoming with her father, brother and niece in 1868. They settled in South Pass City, which at the time was experience a mining boom and was one of the fastest growing cities in the state.
Aug 17, 2023 · Polly Bartlett, also recognized as The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch, is believed to have been a 19th-century killer from Wyoming Territory. Allegedly, she was the first serial killer in Wyoming, pre-dating its statehood. According to accounts, in 1868, Bartlett, aided by her father Jim, supposedly murdered 22 men who entered their family ...
Oct 15, 2018 · In 1868, Polly Bartlett poisoned 22 men at her family's boarding house in South Pass City, Wyo.
Oct 7, 2021 · It turns out that South Pass was the home of Wyoming's very first serial killer - a young lady by the name of Polly Bartlett. Back in the 1860s, gold was discovered in this mountain pass town, and people flooded the place looking to get rich quick.
