he had the gun in my face and had me sit in a rocking chair and this is when he told me that my family was over at this woman s house, and if i did what i was told, they wouldn t be hurt. all he had to do was make a phone call and they would die. a shot gun blast would cause a lot of damage and apparently he was able to clean it up before he came home. how was this possible? he had two hours to clean it up. the three bodies having been dump-in two sheds in the backyard went undiscovered for nearly two weeks as charlie and carol remained in the house. i think charlie s story is that he got into an argument with her stepfather and it escalated from there and ended up shooting the stepfather, her mother ran in screaming, he then killed her mother. and in your view, carol ann
charlie now saw himself as a genuineout law. he began telling carol, it s just you and me, we have got to go away together. at this point had she started to feel a little bit suffocated by him? she actually told him not to call her anymore? yes, she did. january 21st, 1958. knowing what happened at the bartlett home in belmont on that cold winter day depends on who you believe. one thing is known for sure. carol s stepfather and mother had been shot and stabbed to death. 2 1/2-year-old betty jean was bludgeoned whbe w rifle and stabbed with a knife. carol said she came home to find starkweather holding a gun on her. the then 46-year-old carol ann fugate he scribed what happened next.
the hate he had already into more hatred. but there was one person, the 18-year-old starkweather didn t hate. he had eyes for a spunky and rebellious 13-year-old named carol ann fugate. she said, my god, he was so funny, he put me on a pedestal, he always wanted to buy me things. the two cruised around lincoln in charlie s beat up 49 hot rod. charlie was also a crack shot and really into guns and carol s parents didn t like him one bit. they probably weren t very impressed with him. as a person, they serge were concerned about the age difference between them. this empty lot is all thatry mains of where carol was living at the time, with her hard working stepfather, and her mother sell da. also giving there was her 2
charlie s desire to buy things for carol soon became problematic. after getting fired and having a fight with his father, he was kicked out of the house. charlie was desperate for money. located here on corn husker highway, this used to be a crest gas station that charlie used to like to hang around. in the early morning hours of one employee working, 21-year-old robert holbrooke, who was married with a baby on the way. starkweather robbed him and then forced him at gunpoint to drive them both to a secluded area. he came in and robbed holbrooke, took hit out in a secluded area and killed him. do we even know how much money he got. i would guess under $100.
did hold a gun on the couple at one point, and take $4 out of his pocket but claims she did it at starkweather s command. with six people murdered, charlie and carol drove back into bennett. the next morning, thigh cruised arrange the neighborhood, looking for a place to hide out. dumped jensen s car, and get a new one. they end up at a house that he became familiar with while he worked on the trash route? right. this is the home that stark weather chose to hold out in. carol ann wait inside were 46-year-old clara ward and her 41-year-old maid. armed with guns and a knife, charlie and carol ann terrorized