A wanna-be tough guy and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.

The true story of Charlie Starkweather who murdered eleven people during a 1958 killing spree throughout Nebraska and Wyoming. The 19 year-old was tried and convicted, along with his 14 year-old girlfriend; Caril Ann Fugate. Starkweather was executed by electric chair a year later. Fugate served seventeen years before her parole.