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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advised. |
0:16.0 | This is 10-minute murder. |
0:29.6 | According to the FBI, there's one key difference between a serial killer and a spree killer. |
0:41.0 | While serial killers have a cooling off period between their crimes, |
0:44.7 | spree killers typically continue to kill over a short period of time. |
0:49.6 | Criminal psychologists and investigators have struggled to understand the psychology behind spree killers. |
0:55.6 | But for many criminals, details about their childhoods can pull back the curtain, providing an |
1:01.1 | insight into the horrific crimes they commit as adults. For Charles Starkweather, born in Nebraska |
1:07.6 | in 1938, his resentment of other people was the motivator for his crimes, |
1:13.0 | and it began to develop at a very young age. |
1:16.8 | Charles was an unhappy child. |
1:19.2 | He had a birth defect that affected the shape of his legs, and he claimed that his classmates |
1:24.4 | bullied him because of his speech impediment. |
1:27.2 | When he became a teenager, |
1:28.7 | he fell in love with exercising. And now that he was strong enough, he turned the tables |
1:33.9 | and started threatening and beating up his bullies. Quote, he could be the kindest person |
1:39.6 | you've ever met, said one of his school friends. He'd do anything for you if you liked you. He was a hell |
1:45.0 | of a lot of fun to be around, too. Everything was just one big joke to him. But he had this other side. |
1:51.6 | He could be mean as hell, cruel. If he saw some poor guy in the street who was bigger than he was, |
1:57.4 | better looking or better dressed, he tried to take the poor bastard down to his size. |
2:02.4 | Charles' classmates weren't the only people to notice that he had this dark side. |
2:07.7 | By the time he reached his late teens, his family was so terrified of his fits of rage |
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