Fugate was sentenced to life in prison, but was released in 1976. He was given the death penalty and died in the electric chair on June 25, 1959.
Starkweather and Fugate were convicted of murder. Starkweather and Fugate’s final victim, a shoe salesman, was killed on January 29 the couple was captured later that day. On January 28, the couple killed another three people–the Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid. Starkweather and Fugate remained holed up at the scene of the crime for several days, before taking off in Starkweather’s car and murdering three more people-a farmer and two teenagers-on January 27. Join Kendare as she runs down five films that were inspired by the same crimes.
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Starkweather turned serial killer on January 21, 1958, when he shot Fugate’s stepfather and mother after arguing with them at their home, and strangled Fugate’s two-and-a-half-year-old sister. It was inspired in part by the 11-victim murder spree committed by Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, and also by the murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, perpetrated by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Reportedly, an attendant at the station had previously refused Starkweather’s attempt to buy a present for Fugate on credit. Starkweather committed his first murder on December 1, 1957, when he robbed a gas station and killed the attendant. He later idolized James Dean and identified with the actor’s rebellious, outsider image. Growing up, Charles Starkweather was bullied and did poorly in school. The final act in this heartland tragedy was played out on June 25, 1959, when Starkweather strolled disinterestedly to his death in the electric chair. The crimes later inspired a slew of books, movies and music, including Terence Malick’s 1973 film “Badlands,” starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song “Nebraska.” The killer couple’s deadly road trip, which generated enormous media attention and a massive manhunt, came to an end the following day, when Starkweather and Fugate were arrested near Douglas, Wyoming. On January 28, 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would ultimately leave 10 people dead.
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