The Starkweather homicide took place in 1958, it was a gruesome murder spree that took place throughout Nebraska and Wyoming and had a total of ten victims. The murder spree began when 19-year-old Charles Starkweather murdered his girlfriend’s family. His 14- year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate,came home to her house in Lincoln, Nebraska one day to see her family was gone. She was met with Charles Starkweather and was then told that if she did not comply by running away with Starkweather, he would murder her family. Little did she know, her family was already dead. After the couple then fled Caril Fugate’s house to Bennet, Neb. where they then met a farmer, August Meyers,who offered his hospitality and in return, was shot with a shotgun. Later