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Nancy Howard just wanted a quiet night at home. She pulled into the garage of her upscale home, got out of her car, and was about to head inside for dinner when an armed gunman grabbed her by the neck. The pair struggled. He shot her and left her for dead. But Nancy survived. Investigators were perplexed by the crime, but soon, the pieces came together. It was even stranger than they\u2019d initially suspected.

Then Brandi tells us about infamous teenaged spree killer Charles Starkweather. In just two months, Charles killed eleven people. His underaged girlfriend was with him the entire time. Starkweather\u2019s horrific crimes won a place in pop culture. The crimes inspired the film Natural Born Killers, a truly terrible Bruce Springsteen song, and were mentioned in Billy Joel\u2019s, \u201cWe didn\u2019t start the fire.\u201d

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\n\u201cHow to not get away with murder\u201d by Michael J Mooney for D Magazine
\n\nAn episode of the podcast Swindled
\n\n\u201c\u2018They got you, didn\u2019t they?\u2019 Denton County woman tells prison-bound ex who tried to have her killed,\u201d The Dallas Morning News
\n\n\u201cLove affair takes center stage in Carrollton murder-for-hire trial,\u201d NBCDFW.com
\n\n\u201cAppeal denied in John Howard case,\u201d Carrollton Leader
\n\n\u201cTrial begins for alleged hit man hired by North Texas man convicted of plotting to kill wife,\u201d MySanAntonio.com

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cCharles Starkweather and Caril Fugate\u201d by Marilyn Bardsley, Crime Library
\n\n\u201cCharles Raymond Starkweather\u201d murderpedia.org
\n\n\u201cThe Killing Spree that Transfixed a Nation: Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, 1958\u201d by Lesley Wischmann, WyoHistory.org
\n\n\u201cCharles Starkweather And Caril Fugate Trials: 1958\u201d encyclopedia.com

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