“The more I looked at people, the more I hated them because
I knowed there wasn’t any room for me.”
Charlie Starkweather, Confession taken in January, 1958
“Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.”
~John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, Line 62
In the early morning hours of December 1, 1957, Charlie Starkweather, a 19 year old James Dean devotee from Lincoln, NE, robbed a young gas station attendant, Robert Colvert, and then shot him twice with a shotgun.
Over the next 60 days, Starkweather and his teenage girlfriend, Carol Fugate, went on one of the most chilling and heinous killing sprees recorded in American history.
Immortalized in movies like Natural Born Killers and folk songs by Bruce Springsteen, the murders still bring shivers to the townspeople of Lincoln.
In an unassuming plot of ground in Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, NE, Charlie Starkweather–one of the most notorious serial killers in US history–lies buried forever in darkness. Five of his victims are also buried here.
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