A group show at Columbia College's photography gallery is all about the scene of the crime by Sam Worley If you're interested in how violent crime resonates through American culture, you could do worse than to study the case of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the Nebraska teens who murdered ten people and a dog over the course of eight days in January 1958. Their spree has inspired at least a half-dozen movies, including Terrence Malick's 1973 Badlands, and prompted Bruce Springsteen to write the song "Nebraska" ("Me and her went for a ride, sir, and ten innocent people died").? [ Read more ]
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