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Marion Bartlett, a 57-year-old White male, was killed in Lincoln, Nebraska, on January 21, 1958, when nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather arrived at the Bartlett home and was told to stay away. Starkweather returned armed and fatally shot Marion and Marion’s wife, Velda; he then killed their two-year-old daughter, Betty Jean. To mask the crime, Starkweather hid the bodies on the property—Marion in the chicken coop, Velda in the outhouse, and the child nearby—and a note appeared in the w ...Read More
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Marion Bartlett
Male
White / Caucasian
Lincoln
NE
1958-01-25
58
Marion
Bartlett
11/22/2025
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It's so gut-wrenching to think about how Marion Sylvester Bartlett's life was cut short in such a vi... ...Read More
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