Between December 1957 and January 1958, 19-year-old Charles Starkweather murdered 11 people as he drove across Nebraska and Wyoming with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Starkweather would most accurately be classified as which of the following?

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Charles Starkweather would be most accurately classified as a spree killer. It is defined as a person who commits two or more murders without a cooling-off period; the murders must be committed within a brief period, such as days or weeks, and at different locations. Starkweather's murders took place over a period of approximately six weeks while he and Fugate were driving across Nebraska and Wyoming.

Between December 1957 and January 1958, 19-Year-Old Charles Starkweather Murdered