Charles Starkweather & Caril Fugate

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Starkweather Background

• Starkweather grew up in a poor family.• His father was a carpenter but didn’t get

enough work to hold down the family consistently because of the arthritis in his hands.

• Because of this his mother worked as a waitress

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Background (conts.)• Stark weather had a disease which made his legs miss

shaped • Was bullied in School• He also had a speech problem• Was bullied in school• Also had myopia (which effects vision)• Was a slow learner• And didn’t like school • After letting out his rage physically he later became a

bully himself and got his revenge

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Fugate’s part in the killings

• Fugate said she came home and saw that Starkweather had shot both her parents

• She told him to hide the bodies • Later the two fled doing a cross country crime

spree• She claims she was a hostage

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FIRST MURDER

• Starkweather committed his first murder in November 30 1957.

• He tried to buy a stuffed animal from a gas station cashier on credit but the cashier wouldn’t let him so after buying a few smaller purchases he cam back with a shotgun and drove the cashier out to field and shot him in the head.

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First Spree• January 1 1958 Starkweather shot Fugate’s parents and Fugate and Starkweather

hid their bodies behind the house.• Then after fleeing to a family friends house Starkweather shot the friend and his

dog and then took off with his car.• After their car got stuck in the some mud the ditched it, then later shot two

teenagers trying to give them a ride• Once ditching they bodies they drove to a nearby town and broke into a home and

stabbed both a woman and her maid then shot the husband when he came home• They dove off in the family’s car and headed onto the highway.• After authorities being alerted Starkweather ditched the car and shot another man

and drove off but before they could get anywhere a sheriff caught them.• Fugate surrenderd with out a fight but Starkweather was speeding off.• He stop after the sheriff shot the car window and glass flew in to Stark weather's

neck

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Victims• 1.Robert Colvert (21), gas station attendant• 2.Marion Bartlett (57), Fugate's stepfather• 3.Velda Bartlett (36), Fugate's mother• 4.Betty Jean Bartlett (2), Velda and Marion Bartlett's daughter• 5.August Meyer (70), Starkweather family's friend• 6.Robert Jensen (17), Carol King's boyfriend• 7.Carol King (16), Robert Jensen's girlfriend• 8.C. Lauer Ward (47), wealthy industrialist• 9.Clara Ward (46), C. Lauer Ward's wife• 10.Lillian Fencl (51), Clara Ward's maid• 11.Merle Collison (37), traveling salesman

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Trial & Execution

• Starkweather was sentenced to death by electric chair

• Fugate was given a life sentence• But Fugate got out on parole and married• She refuse to talk about the murdering spree

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