The Teenage Sweethearts Who Killed Ten People in Eight Days (opens in new tab)
The 20th century blueprint for psychopathy are the crimes of 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Starkweather committed his first murder in November of 1957. Then on January 21, 1958, he killed Fugate's parents and two-year-old sister. Over the next eight days, the two traveled around Nebraska and Wyoming, killing almost everyone they encountered. The sensational murders inspired several movies including Badlands in 1973 and Natural Born Killers i...
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