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Starkweather : the untold story of the killing spree that changed America  Cover Image Book Book

Starkweather : the untold story of the killing spree that changed America / Harry N. MacLean.

MacLean, Harry N., (author.).

Summary:

"On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to help were murdered and jammed in a food cellar. By the time the dust settled, ten innocent people were dead, and the city of Lincoln was in a state of terror. Schools closed. Men with rifles perched on the roofs of their houses. National guardsmen patrolled the street. Every few hours, there would come a knock on the door, and a voice would ask: "Everyone all right in there?" If there is a cultural version of PTSD, the town suffered from it. Starkweather and Fugate's killing spree and the resulting trials received world-wide coverage. It was the first mass killing of the modern age--a precursor of the awakening of the country from the slumber of the fifties to the rebellious, violent sixties. From Starkweather on, people in the Midwest locked their doors. Yet, in spite of this massive exposure, the story has dropped far from the national consciousness. With new material, new reporting, and new conclusions about the possible guilt or innocence of Fugate, the tale is an updated and definitive retelling"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781640095410 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Starkweather, Charles Raymond, 1938-1959.
Fugate, Caril Ann.
Murder > United States.
Spree murderers > United States.
Genre: Biographies.
True crime stories.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch 364.15230973 MacL 31681010352102 NONFIC Available -


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