The year is 1958, and America is still innocent in terms of evil people. We know they were always around, but with snail mail and no internet, things that made the news are not like they are today. Someone commits a heinous crime in Manchester, England, and in mere seconds, we here in the US hear about it. Today's case, Day 11, takes us back to when Eisenhouse and Nixon led the US and the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, was America’s watchdog. Even though it entered the lexicon in early 1900, the word teenager was coming into the common language. Teens were becoming more independent from their parents thanks to public education. No longer were young children pulled from school to go to work. This led to some rebellion from those teens, who were better to show the cause than James Dean and Elvis. Perhaps it was perfect timing in the US, or maybe it was the shock of how two teenagers could capture the world's attention and go down in infamy. The couple would be memorialized in such movie classics as Terrance Malik’s 1974 Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as the leads, Tarrantino’s True Romance, David Lynch’s Wild at Hart, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers. Even today, the couple still holds our gaze with movies, tv shows, songs, books, and more.



Join Jen and Cam on the 5th Annual Our True Crime Podcast’s 12 Nightmares Before Christmas -Day 11-Bad Romance: Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate

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Sources:
http://www.biography.com/articles/Charles-Starkweather-233080
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6100
https://books.google.com/books?id=CxYeAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA39&article_id=2740,4258335
https://www.archive.org/details/killerscontractk0000cawt/page/174
https://books.google.com/books?id=348UAAAAIBAJ&q=%22Charles+Starkweather%22&pg=PA21&article_id=5866,2297883#v=onepage
https://lincolnlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/StarkweatherTimeline.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77473754/the-miami-news/
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/killing-spree-transfixed-nation-charles-starkweather-and-caril-fugate-1958
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/killer-couple-strikes-the-heartland

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