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.

Caril Ann Fugate got a raw deal. That’s the premise of “The 12th Victim,” a four-part Showtime documentary series based on the 2014 book by Linda M. Battisti and John Stevens Berry (both Battisti and ...

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 ...

Charles Starkweather's killing spree began Jan. 21, when he murdered his girlfriend's mother, stepfather and baby sister. It ended with his arrest eight days later near Douglas, Wyoming. By that time, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Even 65 years later, the name “Starkweather” brings chills. Charles “Charlie” Starkweather, 19, accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, ...

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 ...

Showtime is exploring an infamous teenage couple who were convicted of murdering 11 people in the 1950s in the network’s latest docuseries. The 12th Victim is a four-part docuseries following the ...

For his first book, Harry MacLean was a stranger, and Skidmore, Missouri, was a strange land. But that didn’t stop the Nebraska native from driving there from his home in Colorado after reading about ...