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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