Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sickness but murder. Wrapped in paper in a chicken house was the body of 57-year-old Marion Bartlett. In an outbuilding lay the bodies of Caril's mother. Velda Bartlett, 35, and little Betty Jean Bartlett. The child had been clubbed to death, the adults shot in the head...
...stuck in the mud on a road leading to Meyer's farm. Up drove a second Ford; Bennet High School Junior Class President Robert Jensen, 17, was out on an early school-night date with Classmate Carol King, 16. They stopped to help. Starkweather shot 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...
...stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska's Governor Victor Anderson at the Capitol a few blocks away, Lauer Ward, 47, came home. When he opened his 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...
...ready to change cars again, sighted a new Buick parked beside Highway 87. Shoe Salesman Merle Collison, 37, had pulled off the road to sleep. Caril got into the back seat of Collison's car; Starkweather yanked open the driver's door and shot Collison nine times. Before he could drive off, another car pulled up. Geologist Joe Sprinkle, 40, thought there was an accident, stopped to help. Good Samaritan Sprinkle found a rifle at his head. He rushed the gun, grappled with Starkweather, got the rifle just as Deputy Sheriff William Romer happened by. Caril Fugate leaped...
...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...