Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate Case

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate Case

The Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection are open for research use and may be reproduced following repository policy. The family expressed that the materials in the collection be made available to the public. The repository will digitize and make materials created by Morrison available to as wide a range of users as possible. It will observe its Publication and Fees policy until it moves these records to the Public Domain on 2061-05-14.

1958

Photograph of Caril Ann Fugate sitting in the Converse County Sheriff’s office in Douglas, Wyoming. The image is from a collection of photographs of the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate case from 1958. Starkweather and Fugate, then only 19 and 14 respectively, went on a killing spree in Wyoming and Nebraska where they were eventually caught and arrested near Douglas, Wyoming. Starkweather was convicted and executed in 1959, and Fugate was granted parole from her prison sentence in 1976.

Photographs from this collection can be found in the Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection accessible through the Casper College Western History Center. The Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection includes hundreds of photographs, articles, correspondence, and other documentary items pertaining to Wyoming history from 1920-1980 and Chuck Morrison's life, career as Wyoming State Representative, writings, photography, and military service in WWII.

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Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection, NCA 01.v.1998.01 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections.

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Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center)

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