Editor's note: Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the capture of a serial killer who inspired movies and songs. Charles Starkweather, 20, was a James Dean wannabe, who killed 10 people in Nebraska ...

Caril Fugate (left) and Charles Starkweather in Lancaster, Nebraska, January 1958. Courtesy: The 12th Victim Before the American news cycle was dominated by mass shootings at schools, grocery stores ...

Liza Ward, the granddaughter of two of Starkweather's victims, C. Lauer and Clara Ward, made the trip from Massachusetts to Nebraska for Tuesday's hearing. She said at a news conference on Monday that ...

"The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage" by Linda Battisti and John Stevens Berry Sr., Addicus Books, 250 pages, $21.95 These two authors, both lawyers, ...