the women for nearly 10 hours. so what happened at this house? that s a matter of dispute. the only thing that s not disputed is that there were people killed. mr. ward, his wife and their maid. carol s story is that charlie killed them all. charlie s story is that carol assisted in the knifings of the two women. charlie admit sthas he wrestled with mr. ward when he came home from work. while the murders were happening at the ward house t bodies of august myier, robert jensen and carol king were discovered in bennett. and everybody immediately knew who did it. charlie s car was stuck in the mutd at the meyer house, bob jenson s car was gone, i mean you put two and two together and figure it out. that night charlie and carol got into when the three bodies were discovered at the
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.
charlie s story is that and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. with starkweather was having trouble releasing the car s brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or i ll kill you. coming up, joe sprinkle may not have realized it, but he was
berth. it s still a mystery while charlie and carol were tried separately only for the stabbing and killing of 17-year-old robert jensen. after a two week trial in may of 1958, starkweather was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. i was at the interview and watched carol, in her usual icy cold demeanor answer questions. did he say why he i presented to the public, you know, this person that, you know, well, you know, she s hard amped she s this, and she s that, not knowing that behind that was a person that was testified. starkweather testified against fugate kraming he was a participant in the killing spree.
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