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Dec 8, 2022 · The Killing Spree: A True Story of a String of Brutal Murders, Rapes, and the Cop Who Tried to Stop It Paperback – December 8, 2022 by Anita Paddock (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
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Jul 22, 2023 · Jul 22, 2023 6:00 PM EDT. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, pictured above, went on a killing spree, leaving 11 people dead in 1957 and 1958. The Murderous Rampage of a Young Couple. Several years before the world became aware of cult leader Charles Manson's heinous crimes in the late 1960s, the United States was fixated on a spree ...
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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...
I just finished reading “The Killing Spree” by Anita Paddock. I had to stop reading part way through because of anger of the situation and tears flowing for Officer Randy Basnett and his family. Anita did an amazing job of writing this true crime book as she always does.
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Nov 28, 2023 · The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America. On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Starkweather and Fugate’s capture and arrest, and the resulting trials about the killing spree, received worldwide coverage. The event would serve as the inspiration for the movie Natural Born Killers and Springsteen’s iconic album Nebraska. Today, the story has dropped far from the national consciousness.
Dec 9, 2022 · The Killing Spree: A True Story of a String of Brutal Murders, Rapes, and the Cop Who Tried to Stop It Anita Paddock bvseo_sdk, dw_cartridge, 18.2.0, p_sdk_3.2.0
