To MrNWA.... There's a book called Caril (for Caril Ann Fugate) that you can still buy used from Amazon. I had a copy of it but since I moved, it's in storage. Look it up at Amazon.com using the author's name: Ninette Beaver.
Beaver was the TV reporter in Lincoln who covered the story beginning in January of 1958. She followed it for years, maintaining contact with Fugate even in prison. She knows more than anybody (actually, I think she's deceased now).
Anyway, the book gives you the exact details address of the apartment (or tenement) building. Like Starkweather, Caril's maternal grandmother, Pansy Street, had a flat in the building. From memory, I recall it being in the 10-hundred block of N Street, and it probably isn't there anymore.
As for August Meyer's old house, Beaver's book describes that location very well, too. You basically get a roadmap to it. And that, unlike the old Fugate home and probably the tenement, is still standing.
Investigation-Discovery (the "ID Channel") on cable runs a series of called "Most Evil" about criminals who are particular notable for unusual characteristics. One episode is about "spree killers." Included, along with a couple others, is Charles Starkweather. The reporter stands outside the long-abandoned Meyer farmhouse. There it is, in living color, falling apart. Also shown in the same TV program is an old 1958 black and white photo of it, taken from the same angle. The building is exactly the same except for the half-century of neglect.
But do check out Ninette Beaver's book. It's got the details nobody else has. And it's a good read.
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ShelbyTMItchell
14 years ago
Would love to read that book. As I think that the book knows more about Charlie and Caril than any other book. That has been about the tragedy. Since Ninette was I think the only reporter, other than Del Harding.
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MrNWA4Life
14 years ago
Offhand, the boarding house was on 10th Street, I believe there's a parking garage there now. Charlie's parents lived at 3024 N Street. After they split up and moved out, no one wanted to move in there, so, the house was torn down. All the houses on N Street are older wooden houses except one. Where 3024 once stood is a modern concrete house with the house number 3027-29. On the opposite sides are houses numbered 3021 & 3035. Last year on my trip to Lincoln, I stopped in Bennet and asked around and was told that the Meyer Farm had been torn down. There is a lot of new construction going on, lots of new houses being built. Seems on my next trip I might have to find someone that knows for sure. I have the DVD of Most Evil, which has the episode talking about Charlie. One interesting thing, Pansy Street is buried just a few feet away from Charlie!
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