A thorough, no-frills account of the Fugate/Starkweather case. Their murder spree resulted in the deaths of 10 people in Nebraska and Wyoming in the 1950s and was notorious at the time, but is largely forgotten today. The author, one of the journalists who originally covered the story, records the trials, Starkweather's execution and Fugate's prison sentence and appeals in meticulous, minute-by-minute detail.

I only wish there had been some speculation or insight into what caused Starkweather to go off, and whether his girlfriend was a willing accomplice or a terrified hostage as she later claimed. I wish Ann Rule would write on this. ( )