Sunday, February 08, 2009




Charles Starkweather was a mass murderer who killed 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his 14 yr. old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. His story inspired the films The Sadist, Badlands, Starkweather, Murder in the Heartland, The Frighteners and Natural Born Killers. His story also inspired the Bruce Springsteen song 'Nebraska'. Starkweather was executed in the electric chair at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

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