Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American serial killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was 19 years old.[ He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Fugate served seventeen years in prison, gaining release in 1976. Starkweather's execution by electric chair in 1959 was the last execution in Nebraska until 1994.