First, he entered the store twice and bought first a package of cigarettes and then a package of chewing gum. the next day, he returned with a shotgun. When he found that he wasn't carrying enough money, the manager, Robert Colvert, refused to let him buy it on credit and threw him out. On November 30, he went to a gas station and tried to buy a stuffed dog toy for Fugate. In 1957, aged 19, Starkweather committed his first murder. Charles then quit his job at the warehouse and became a garbage collector, using his route to plan bank robberies (though he never actually carried them out). Guy Starkweather, who was the legal owner of the car, paid for the damages and threw Charles out of the household, no longer willing to put up with his behavior. At some point, Caril crashed his car, a 1949 Ford, while he was teaching her how to drive. He took a job at a Western Union newspaper warehouse as a truck unloader he chose that location because it was close to Caril's junior high school. Though he was five years older than her, they were madly in love with each other. He was introduced to his girlfriend (and later partner-in-crime), Caril Ann Fugate, through the girlfriend of his best friend, Bob von Busch. At the age of 16, Charles dropped out of high school. After watching Rebel Without a Cause, he became obsessed with actor James Dean, who had the lead role, and started dressing like his character and imitating him. During gym class, his physique became better, and he started exacting revenge on those who had bullied him and also became a bully himself. He was also very near-sighted, not even able to read the top letter on an eye chart, but it wasn't discovered until he was a teenager before that, he had been thought of as a slow learner. In school, Charles was often bullied because he had bowed legs and a slight speech impediment. His father, Guy, was a carpenter who had arthritis in his hands and was often unemployed. 2 Killing Spree, Capture, and ConvictionĬharles Starkweather was born the third of seven children in 1938 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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