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May 21, 2023 45 min

Fugate Teenage Killers

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."...family Annihilation and spree killing you just said family Annihilation I did so couple of definitions here so family and I Elation is like when multiple close family members are killed in one like one location in a short period of time and then spree killing so you have like serial killings which are like multiple victims multiple murder victims but there's like a cool-off period in between like it's like a course of time yeah and it's multiple locations okay this there's like mass murder which is like multiple murders in like one location and then for this case it's a spree killing so it's multiple murders multiple locations but it's a short period of time if that helps yeah yeah I mean I'm just more into the first one you said kind of caught my interest yeah please you're kind of sad though I'm Gonna Knock It Off don't tell me that all right all right so Charles Starkweather was born on November of 1938 and Lincoln Nebraska to guy and Helen Starkweather he was the third out of seven kids wow yeah there's lots of big fan every every murder comes from a big family seemed honest so guy was a carpenter but he had arthritis in his hands so there was like frequent bouts of unemployment because obviously Carpenters need their hands so kind of real unfortunate ailment he had Helen was a waitress she had to pick up the shifts a lot when guy was laid off I guess or unemployed they weren't the most well-off family like in terms of finances obviously but they made it work guy and Helen will always liked helping their neighbors whenever they needed and the neighbors just slowly love the Starkweather children because they were all so well-behaved Charles had it really rough growing up the once school started he was bow-legged and he had a stutter and he was extremely nearsighted now the nearsightedness wasn't diagnosed until he was a teenager so everybody just assumed he was a slow learner but he just couldn't see for shit so like he did he couldn't even read the top of the eye chart like the giant e.e. he couldn't even read that like that's how nearsighted he so kids bullied him a lot there was actually one case where they pushed him into oncoming traffic and laughed at him and said like his bow legs weren't working and that's why he went into traffic he got hit by a car oh my God yeah I don't think it was serious though but like but at the same time like that's so messed up for somebody to do it like what grade was this in it didn't specify it was just a real quick like oh yeah and then his bullying got so bad one day that he got pushed into oncoming traffic and and taller than his peers..."

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