Photos: The Starkweather case
See archive photos of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate before and after the 1958 murder spree.
Starkweather
Caril Fugate and Charles Starkweather in a snapshot taken by his landlady a few months before their January 1958 murder spree.
Lincoln Memories
National Guardsmen Specialist 2nd Class Bobbie Michaud and Specialist 2nd Class Eugene Lackey stand guard at 13th and O streets in downtown Lincoln in this photo from January 1958. Gov. Victor Anderson requested that the Nebraska National Guard assist the Lincoln Police Department in patrolling the city during Charles Starkweather’s crime spree.
Caril Ann Fugate
A request for a pardon by Caril Ann Fugate, shown in a police car after being taken into custody in 1958, was denied on Feb. 18.
150. Charles Starkweather
150. Charles Starkweather
1938-1959
Spree killer
The most infamous Nebraskan, Lincoln garbage man Starkweather killed 11 people in Southeast Nebraska and Wyoming during a two-month murder spree in 1957 and 1958. He has been the subject of movies, books and Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska.”
Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate (center) was convicted of murder after accompanying Charlie Starkweather on a 1958 crime spree.
Starkweather
Charles Starkweather's driver's license
Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate, left, is greeted by her sister.
Report
A file from the investigator on police performance in handling the Starkweather murders.
Starkweathe
Charles Starkweather
Starkweather guns
Starkweather guns
Caril Fugate Clair
Caril Ann (Fugate) Clair and her husband, Frederick A. Clair, who died in a car accident in August 2013.
Charles Starkweather
Charlie Starkweather's grave at Wyuka Cemetery is one of the few indigent burial sites in the cemetery with a grave marker. Starkweather killed 11 people in 1957-1958. He was executed in the electric chair in 1959.
The former Caril Ann Fugate is asking for a pardon for a first-degree murder and felony robbery charge for which she was convicted 61 years ag…
Liza Ward said that for a long time she thought that Caril Ann (Fugate) Clair must have been guilty to some degree, until she herself agreed to appear on a crime show and had to extensively research the case.
The Nebraska Pardons Board voted 3-0 to deny a pardon or even grant a hearing to consider one Tuesday to the former girlfriend of infamous Neb…
Organizer of nationwide effort says: "At the very least, she was 14 years old, with the death penalty on the table. Even if you don't believe she was entirely innocent, you could go to a place of forgiveness for a child."
Although Charles Starkweather had no last words just before execution, the deputy warden said that, when prison officials went to fetch Starkweather from his cell, his words were: "What's your hurry?"