Overview
- In January 1958, 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate added 10 murders over eight days after a November 1957 gas station killing, bringing the toll to 11.
- Victims included Fugate's mother, stepfather, and two-year-old half-sister, and Starkweather shot teen Carol King after she fought off a sexual assault.
- The pair fled across Nebraska in stolen cars, crossed into Wyoming, and police captured them after a 100‑mph chase.
- In court, Starkweather first backed Fugate's claim that she was a hostage before reversing himself, and he was executed in 1959 as Fugate was convicted at 14, served 17 years, paroled in 1976, and later lived in Michigan as Caril Ann Clair, with reports saying she is still alive.
- The spree left a lasting cultural mark, inspiring the 1973 film Badlands, cited in 1994's Natural Born Killers, and Bruce Springsteen's song Nebraska.