Charles Starkweather Bio

Famous villains Bonnie and Clyde were petty robbers who became serial killers. Common murder united them in history with Charlie Starkweather, teenage killer and Paul Knowles, the misfit who
crossed America murdering innocent people.

At the height of the Depression in 1930's America, Bonnie and Clyde captured the imagination of the American Public as they
fled from state to state living off the proceeds of their crime. But the couple was more than thieved-they were callous killers who shot anyone who got in their way. Finally they were caught in
an ambush and their murderous spree ended in a hail of police bullets.

Twenty-four years later another young couple murdered 10 people one week, in Nebraska. 17 year old Charlie Starkweather, and his
girlfriend, 14 years old Caril Fugate, began their killing spree with Caril's parents and their two year old daughter. The police
quickly caught up with the murderous couple and just over a year later Starkweather was put to death on the electric chair, and Fugate was jailed for life.

The third spree killer worked alone on a 20,000-mile journey through 25 different American states in the 1970's. By the time he was caught he had murdered at least 20 people. Paul Knowles
was a misfit, who took his revenge out on a society that he felt had rejected him. Finally captured after a huge police hunt,
Knowles tried to escape from the back of a police van, and was shot by a policeman in the ensuing struggle.