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First Published:
Sep 2004, 320 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2005, 320 pages
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This article relates to Outside Valentine
Outside Valentine
is an elegantly written and compelling first
novel in its own right, but the story is
given an extra edge by the fact that the
author's paternal grandparents were two of
the victims, and one of the fictionalized
characters in the book is, apparently, based
on the author's father.
The
Starweather/Fugate killings were the
inspiration for a number of movies such as
Terrence Malick's Badlands (1974),
Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott's True
Romance (1993), and Oliver Stone's
Natural Born Killers (1994). You can
browse a comprehensive summary of the case
here.
As for what happened to the perpetrators; Starkweather was sent to the
electric chair in 1959, but Fugate was given
life imprisonment. She was paroled in
1976 and apparently lives quietly in
Michigan, working as a medical assistant.
She would have turned 60 last year.
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