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Dead People Are All On The Same Level · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion is advised. This is ten minuted murder. According to the FBI,
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  there's one key difference between a serial killer and a spree killer. While serial
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  killers have a cooling off period between their crimes, spree killers typically continue to
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  kill over a short period of time. Criminal psychologists and investigators have struggled to
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  understand the psychology behind spree killers, but for many criminals, details about their
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  childhoods can pull back the curtain, providing an insight into the horrific crimes they
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  commit as adults. For Charles Stark Weather born in Nebraska in nineteen thirty eight,
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  his resentment of other people was the motivator for his crimes, and it
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  began to develop at a very young age. Charles was an unhappy child.
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  He had a birth defect that affected the shape of his legs, and he
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  claimed that his classmates bullied him because of his speech impediment. When he became
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  a teenager, he fell in love with exercising, and now that he was
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  strong enough, he turned the tables and started threatening and beating up his bullies.
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  Quote. He could be the kindest person you've ever met, said one
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  of his school friends. He'd do anything for you if you liked you.
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  He was a hell of a lot of fun to be around too. Everything
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  was just one big joke to him. But he had this other side.
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  He could be mean as hell cruel. If he saw some poor guy in
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  the street who was bigger than he was, better looking, or better dressed,
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  he tried to to the poor bastard down to his size. Charles's classmates
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  weren't the only people to notice that he had this dark side. By the
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  time he reached his late teens, his family was so terrified of his fits
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  of rage that they started avoiding him. In his senior year, in nineteen
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  fifty six, Charles dropped out of school and started working at a newspaper warehouse.
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  At around this time, Charles was introduced to a girl who immediately stole
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  his heart. Her name was Carol Ann Fuguet and she was only thirteen years
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  old. Charles was eighteen. Charles's job at the warehouse was close to where
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  Carol went to school, so he started going to visit her after classes were
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  finished. Because Carol was again only thirteen, she couldn't drive, and Charles
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  decided that he would be the one to teach her how to drive. For
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  Carol's driving lessons. He borrowed his dad's car and she promptly crashed it,
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  causing Charles to be kicked out of his home for gm good. Throughout his
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  whole life, Charles had been a pessimist, always seeing the worst in people.
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  Now his worldview began to deteriorate. He started believing in nihilism, thinking
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  that because life was meaningless, there was nothing to stop him from gaining power
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  over other people at any cost. He even created his own motto to live
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  his life by dead people are all on the same level. And I think
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  I understand what he means by that. But as far as life mottos are
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  concerned, if you look past the dark nature of it, it's extremely unintelligence.
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  Something like a high school dropout would come up with. Charles put this
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  new philosophy into action for the first time. On November thirtieth, nineteen fifty
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  seven. He was at a gas station trying to buy a stuffed animal,
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  but the attendant wouldn't let him buy it on credit. The next night,
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  he returned to the gas station to buy multiple other items, and he had
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  a gun with him. He robbed the attendant for one hundred dollars cab.
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  Then he forced that attendant into his car, drove to an isolated location where
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  he fatally shot the man in the head. And if you're wondering why he
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  was trying to buy a stuffed animal on credit, his girlfriend is thirteen years
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  old. The gas station killing wasn't the real beginning of Charles's killing spree.
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  For him, it was just a warm up. The spree began in January
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  of nineteen fifty eight, when Charles drove to his now fourteen year old girlfriend's
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  home. Carrol's family understandably did not like their daughter's boyfriend, and they told
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  Charles to go away beat it. In response, Charles drew his weapon and
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  fatally shot Carol's mother and stepfather. Then he advanced on Carol's sister, two
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  year old Betty Jean. Instead of shooting the toddler, Charles beat her to
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  death. This is where Charles and Carol's stories begin to differ. According to
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  Charles, Carol had been there the whole time, arriving with him at the
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  beginning of the night and watching as he killed her family. However, Carol
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  insisted that she had arrived at the house later and found out that Charles was
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  brandishing a weapon and holding her family hostage. He reportedly told her that if
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  she didn't cooperate with him, he would kill her family. Whatever happened,
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  Charles and Carroll stayed at the house for the next six days until Carol's grandmother
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  asked the police to go to the house and carry out a welfare check.
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  By the time the officers arrived, Charles had hidden the bodies and the couple
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  were long gone. Two days later, Charles's brother and one of his friends
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  also came to the house, where they found the remains of Carroll's family and
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  called the police. Charles and Carroll were officially wanted for murder. During their
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  time on the run, the pair drove to the home of one of Charles's
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  family's friends, seventy year old August Meyer. Charles shot August in the head
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  and then killed his dog. While they were fleeing the scene, Charles and
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  Carroll's vehicle got stuck in the mud, forcing them to abandon it and hitch
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  a ride. They were picked up by two teenagers, Carol King and Robert
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  Jensen. As soon as Charles and Carroll were in the car, Charles pulled
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  out his gun and forced Robert to drive them to an unused storm shelter.
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  Whence they were there, Charles fatally shot Robert. He then tried to sexually
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  assault Carroll, but when he failed, he shot her out of anger.
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  However, he claimed that his girlfriend, Carol had actually been the one to
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  shoot her. Carrol later claimed that she had remained in Robert's car the entire
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  time and had not seen what took place in the storm shelter. The couple
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  then drove to a wealthy area of Lincoln, Nebraska, where they broke into
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  the home of a wealthy businessman named Chester Ward. Charles killed Chester and his
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  wife Clara when they returned to the house. To prevent the family dog from
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  barking at them, he killed the dog with his bare hands. Clara was
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  the first person to arrive home and was stabbed to death. When Chester arrived
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  home later, he was fatally shot, leaving all members of the household dead.
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  Charles and Carroll stole the luxury car parked outside, taking some of the
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  couple's jewelry with them as they drove out of Nebraska. Investigators suspected that Charles
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  and Carroll were behind these murders, but despite multiple sightings, they were unable
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  to find and apprehend them. Meanwhile, after arriving in Wyoming, Charles and
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  Carroll knew that they needed to swamp out their stolen car, so they shot
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  a traveling salesman who was sleeping in a parked car and stole his vehicle.
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  However, this new car was equipped with a parking brake, something that Charles
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  had never had experience with. He never released the break, causing the car
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  to stall. When a motorist pulled over to help, Charles threatened the man
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  with his gun. A sheriff's deputy came to investigate the commotion shortly afterwards,
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  and Carol ran over to him, saying, it's dark weather. He's going
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  to kill me. Charles fled from the scene, but was captured by the
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  police after being chased down by three police officers in a high speed car chase.
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  Carrol, who had remained with the sheriff, had already been arrested.
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  Throughout her interrogations and during her trial, Carol always insisted that Charles held her
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  hostage, telling her that if she didn't do what he said, he'd kill
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  her family. Over and over. She had promised she'd never killed anyone.
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  Initially, Charles backed up Carrol's story, saying that he'd kidnapped her and she
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  had not participated in his crimes. Later, he changed his story enough that
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  he ended up testifying against her in court, insisting that she had been a
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  willing participant in calling her the most trigger happy person he'd ever met. Charles
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  was only tried for one murder, Robert Jensen, the teenage boy who had
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  given him a lift, and he was found guilty in May of nineteen fifty
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  eight and sentenced to death by electric chair, which took place the following year.
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  Reportedly, Charles was never concerned about the sentence or afraid of death,
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  but insisted that if he was going to be killed for his crimes, Carol
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  should die too. He never spoke any official last words, but instead his
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  last words were in a letter he wrote to his family which read quote,
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  but Dad, I'm not real sorry for what I did because for the first
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  time, me and Carol have more fun. Despite Charles's insistence that his girlfriend
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  should be executed as well, Carol was sentenced as an accomplice and sentenced to
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  life in prison. After serving just over seventeen years of her sentence, her
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  application for parole was approved in nineteen seventy six. That's ten Minute Murdered for
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