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Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a two-month road trip with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. The couple was captured on January 29, 1958. Starkweather was executed seventeen months later, while Fugate served 17 years in prison.
Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the third of seven children to Guy and Helen Starkweather. The Starkweathers were a respectable family with well-behaved children of working class background. The family always had shelter and other resources. Guy Starkweather was by all accounts a mild-mannered man; he was a carpenter who was often unemployed due to rheumatoid arthritis in his hands. During Guy's periods of unemployment, Starkweather's mother supplemented the family income by working as a waitress.
Starkweather had attended Saratoga Elementary School, Irving Middle School, and Lincoln High School in Lincoln. In contrast to his family life Starkweather possessed no kind remembrances of his time of going to school. Starkweather was born with genu varum, a mild birth defect that caused his legs to be misshapen. He also suffered from a speech impediment, which led to constant teasing by classmates. He was considered a slow learner and was accused of never applying himself, although in his teens it was discovered that he suffered from severe myopia that had drastically affected his vision for most of his life.
Actors: Steve Taylor (producer), Lance Henriksen (actor), Al Sapienza (actor), America Young (actress), Karl T. Hirsch (editor), Keir O'Donnell (actor), Shannon Lucio (actress), Gabriel Tigerman (actor), George Lindsey Jr. (actor), Ali MacLean (actress), Lee McLaughlin (miscellaneous crew), Mark Boot (producer), Dennis Garber (actor), Justin Ipock (actor), Joe Gerety (actor),
Plot: Since childhood, Nebraska farm-boy Charles Starkweather has a schizophrenic Mr. Hyde side, a nameless dark figure, who inspires him to be cruel for the kicks. Having grown up to a 19 year old garbageman and fallen in love with weird girl 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, he gets completely out of control, killing of her entire family and various other singles of groups during their ensuing inter-state car-chase, hunted down by sheriff Merle Karnopp and a growing army of cops and press, then unprecedented.
Keywords: abuse, father-son-relationship, nebraska, road-movie, serial-killerActors: Kim Davis (miscellaneous crew), Scott Vickrey (editor), Fairuza Balk (actress), Renée Zellweger (actress), Tim Roth (actor), Patrick Williams (composer), Randy Quaid (actor), Milo O'Shea (actor), Gerry Bamman (actor), Brian Dennehy (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Bob Gunton (actor), Marco Perella (actor), Kate Reid (actress), Michael O'Hara (writer),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,