, a sticky parking brake prevented Starkweather and Fugate from driving off in the Buick. Instead, a passing motorist named, seeing two cars pulled over, stopped to assist. Starkweather pointed to the brake, but Sprinkler saw his rifle—and a dead body in the front seat—and grabbed for the gun. At that moment, a patrol car pulled up.
Starkweather never denied shooting anybody, but insisted he had always acted in self-defense. And initially he corroborated what Fugate said—that she had been his hostage.Fugate, meanwhile, had readily signed extradition papers allowing authorities to take her back to Nebraska. Miranda rights weren't established until 1966, so no one was obligated to tell her she had the right to remain silent or could talk to a lawyer.
But when a letter came back saying only that she never wanted to see him again, and he heard through the jail grapevine that Fugate was telling everyone that he was crazy, Starkweather's story started to change.
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