1958 - Crime

Crime

Nebraska police and National Guardsmen mount roadblocks in late January and organize posses to hunt down a "mad dog" killer who has shot Marion Bartlett of Lincoln and his wife Velda through the head, clubbed their younger daughter to death, and run off with Carol Fugate, 14, Mrs. Bartlett's daughter by a previous marriage. Charles Starkweather, 19, has just lost his job as helper on a garbage truck, he proceeds to kill seven more people in the next 3 days before Wyoming police catch him January 30, and he will die in the electric chair June 25 of next year.

A Los Angeles inquest finds April 11 that Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, 14, and her father, restaurateur Stephen Crane, committed "justifiable homicide" in stabbing to death Lana's lover, Hollywood hoodlum Johnny Stompanato, 35, after he threatened her with serious injury or death if she left him.