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Marion Bartlett

Case from Lincoln, NE dated Jan 25, 1958

Victim Details

Marion Bartlett

Male

White / Caucasian

Lincoln

NE

1958-01-25

58

Marion

Bartlett

06/24/2026

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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 ...
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