Don Wendling when he was 7 in 1951, the same year a teenage Charlie Starkweather shot him with a BB gun, next to a copy of Lincoln Evening Journal with the news of Starkweather's arrest.
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Lancaster County Sheriff Merle Karnopp removed the handcuffs from Charles Starkweather after he arrived at the Scotts Bluff County Jail in Gering, Nebraska, on Jan. 29, 1958.
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In January 1958, fear mounted that Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate were at large in the capital city of Lincoln. Armed men were stationed at Lincoln schools and children were escorted home.
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Sheriff Merle Karopp and Charles Starkweather leaving the courtroom after Starkweather gave evidence against girlfriend Caril Fugate. Starkweather was already sentenced to the electric chair for the slaying of Robert Jensen. Fugate was on trial for the same killing.
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Charles Starkweather's car was abandoned near August Meyer's farm in Bennet, Nebraska. Starkweather fatally shot Meyer.
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Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin, left, holds Starkweather's murder weapons in his right hand. In his left hand is the sheriff's carbine, used to stop Starkweather during a police chase.
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Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin fired this bullet while in pursuit of Starkweather near Douglas, Wyoming.
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Charles Starkweather leaves the Scottsbluff County Jail in Gering, Nebraska, on Jan. 31, 1958.
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Starkweather shown after the guilty verdict.
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Caril Ann Fugate, second from right, is booked into the Scotts Bluff County Jail in Gering, Nebraska, on Jan. 30, 1958. She was escorted by Hazel Heflin, wife of Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin of Douglas, Wyoming.
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A body being removed from the Ward home in Lincoln. C. Lauer Ward, his wife, Clara, and their housekeeper Lillian Fencl were found dead there.
Don Wendling when he was 7 in 1951, the same year a teenage Charlie Starkweather shot him with a BB gun, next to a copy of Lincoln Evening Journal with the news of Starkweather's arrest.
