Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four hours earlier the couple, in blue jeans and jackets, drove into a service station on Highway 77, bought 45? worth of gas, a box of .410 shotgun shells and two boxes of .225. They sped on toward the farming hamlet of Bennet (pop. 350), 16 miles southeast of Lincoln. Starkweather needed a hideout, knew that two miles outside Bennet nestled the neat white farmhouse of 70-year-old August Meyer, an old family friend who occasionally allowed the Starkweathers to hunt on his property...
...both through the head with his .22 rifle, pushed their blue-jeaned bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body in a washhouse. Then he and Caril headed back to Lincoln, tossed Jensen's schoolbooks out the car window as they rode...
...front door, Starkweather was waiting in the hall. Ward never got his topcoat off; he was shot in the temple and neck, stabbed in the back when he fell. Starkweather and Caril traded Jensen's Ford for Ward's 1956 black Packard, headed west out of Lincoln on Highway...
Good Samaritan. Behind them they left Lincoln gripped in fear. Mothers pulled toddlers indoors, took older children out of school. Neighbors checked in and checked out with each other, paralyzed Lincoln's telephone circuits with the heaviest traffic since V-J day. District court was recessed. Business firms booked downtown hotel rooms for employees who worked late. The governor mobilized National Guardsmen to stand watch at the National Bank of Commerce when reports got around that Starkweather intended to rob it. Sheriff Merle Karnopp called for a posse, and 100 men armed with deer rifles, shotguns and pistols were...
...called wildly for her dead mother until a doctor gave her a sedative and she cried herself to sleep. Starkweather grinned at newsmen, airily admitted the killings and agreed to extradition, confessed also that two months before he had committed an eleventh murder. His first victim: 19-year-old Lincoln Service Station Attendant Robert Colvert, who was held up, taken to a lonely road and shot in the head...