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Charles Starkweather

1938 - 1959

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Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Charles Starkweather is the 204th most popular extremist (down from 201st in 2024), the 5,761st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,165th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Charles Starkweather ranks 204 out of 283. Before him are Mary Surratt, Amelia Dyer, Robledo Puch, John Wesley Hardin, Émile Henry, and Irmgard Möller. After him are Jane Toppan, Ramadan Shalah, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Robert Ford, Stanley Williams, and Ibn al-Khattab.

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Among people born in 1938, Charles Starkweather ranks 317. Before him are Leonardo Favio, Susan Strasberg, Peter Snell, Werner Olk, Anna Wierzbicka, and Clement Quartey. After him are James Gunn, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Hermann Huppen, Boris Melnikov, Boris Mikhailov, and Paul Morrissey. Among people deceased in 1959, Charles Starkweather ranks 123. Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Ragnar Nurkse, Molla Mallory, Boris Eikhenbaum, Heleno de Freitas, and Edmund Goulding. After him are Felix Jacoby, Albert Namatjira, Nicholas Charnetsky, Alfonso Reyes, Carl Enckell, and Ion Gigurtu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Starkweather ranks 5,761 out of 20,380. Before him are Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Roger Sherman (1721), Reginald VelJohnson (1952), Dean Jagger (1903), William Rehnquist (1924), and Joe Haldeman (1943). After him are Robert Gould Shaw (1837), Jimmy Fallon (1974), Betty Buckley (1947), Bill Goldberg (1966), Emmy Rossum (1986), and Bruce Glover (1932).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Charles Starkweather ranks 70. Before him are Herbert Mullin (1947), Bugs Moran (1893), Carl Panzram (1892), Patty Hearst (1954), Mary Surratt (1823), and John Wesley Hardin (1853). After him are Jane Toppan (1854), Robert Ford (1862), Stanley Williams (1953), Stand Watie (1806), Richard Speck (1941), and Robert Berdella (1949).

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