Midwestern Murders in the 1950s: Five Films Inspired by Starkweather/Fugate & Hickock/Smith
By Kendare Blake
September 17, 2021In December 1957 and January 1958, nineteen-year-old Charlie Starkweather embarked on a killing spree through Nebraska and Wyoming. Most of the murders took place in just over a week, an eight-day rampage of shootings and stabbings that confounded authorities and terrorized the general public. With his even younger girlfriend in tow, Charlie killed eleven people,…