Charles Starkweather died in the electric chair at the Nebraska State Penitentiary 62 years ago today, showing as little emotion as he had displayed when questioned about the 11 victims in the case.

Even 65 years later, the name “Starkweather” brings chills. Charles “Charlie” Starkweather, 19, accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, murdered 10 people in six days in Nebraska ...

In January 1958, in the town of Lincoln, Nebraska, a bowlegged 19-year-old garbageman, Charles Starkweather, brutally murdered the mother, stepfather and two-year-old half-sister of his 14-year-old ...

Though committed more than 60 years ago, the Starkweather Spree Killings are still very fresh in the collective consciousness of today’s society, as a string of 11 brutal murders in Nebraska and ...

Most teenagers spend their formative years fantasizing about future careers, but 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate had far darker ambitions. On November ...

Harry MacLean was writing a novel that had a Charlie Starkweather theme woven into the narrative when he learned that Caril Ann Fugate had been denied a pardon by the Nebraska Board of Pardons.