...Respect and Childhood Obedience that some writers seem to imply. We had our teen-age killers. Remember 1958 with Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend? Perhaps in Georgia and South Carolina there were daily school prayers and religious instruction...

...public and media perception as the crime itself. BADLANDS (1973): The somewhat fictionalized account of the Charles Starkweather/Caril-Ann Fugate killing spree is a dark but beautiful film about young love and conflicted morality. Written...