{"id":1653,"date":"2007-12-06T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2007-12-06T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:14:13","slug":"nebraska-not-starkweather-but-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska: Not Starkweather, but close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tabloidbaby.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/nebraska-not-starkweather-but-close.html\">From TabloidBaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s tragic news from Omaha takes us back to the story of Charles Starkweather, the 19-year-old psychopath who took his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate on a killing spree 50 years ago this month. He&#8217;d kill 11 people, a few more than today&#8217;s murderer managed, but it took Charlie more than a month and two states to do it. His story was the basis of the movie Badlands, which made a star out of Martin Sheen, who&#8217;d go on to narrate All The Presidents&#8217; Movies, the classic Bravo doco series from our pals at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozenpicures.blogsot.com\/\" target=\"new\">Frozen Pictures<\/a>.  The case also became a tabloid TV classic when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1580291074?tag=tabloidbabybl-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1580291074&amp;adid=0714VCJV5FSBF77NH2DE&amp;\" target=\"new\">A Current Affair<\/a> nabbed an exclusive interview with Caril Ann thirty years after the crimes. A production assistant on the story later sold the segment as the basis for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107619\/\" target=\"new\">TV movie<\/a> starring Tim Roth, which allegedly influenced a couple of kids in Canada to embark on a spree on their own. And the circle of death continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TabloidBaby: Today&#8217;s tragic news from Omaha takes us back to the story of Charles Starkweather, the 19-year-old psychopath who took his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate on a killing spree 50 years ago this month. He&#8217;d kill 11 people, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabloid-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}