The Midwest U.S. was rocked in the late 1950s not just by new-fangled rock ‘n roll music or by its bout of horrific flooding, but by an even more sinister kind of horror. Fourteen-year-old Caril Fugate accompanied her 19-year-old boyfriend Charles Starkweather on a murder spree that would claim 11 lives between December 1957 and January 1958 and would later inspire a host of films and music about their rampage through the Badlands.
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Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. “Theme for ‘The Mad Thinker'” from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein’s Lab, 2005
and by
Julie Maxwell. “Childhood Memories” from Farther Than All the Stars, 2016. Creative commons attribution license.
Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner (nathalierattnerart@gmail.com)
Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics
Featured photos from: the13thfloor.tv and YouTube.
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Sources:
Beaver, Ninette. Caril. Lippencott, 1974.
Newton, Michael. Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Gallery, 2014.
Salter, Peter. “Fugate Recovering from Injuries, But Can’t Shake Starkweather Legacy.” Lincoln Journal-Star. 21 Jan. 2014.
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