On this day: January 29

  1. 1958
    Victim Merle Collison · Charles Starkweather

    A traveling salesman.

  2. 1958
    Arrest Highway near Douglas, Wyoming · Charles Starkweather

    Needing a new car, the pair found Merle Collison asleep in his Buick by the highway outside Douglas, and Starkweather killed him. After a car chase with officers, Starkweather surrendered near Douglas.