Hell’s Half-Acre, a small badland in Wyoming (Note: This is the third post about Bruce Springsteenās song āNebraska.ā The first post explored the songās relationship to the case of spree killers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. The second post … Continue reading →
In a previous post on Bruce Springsteenās āNebraskaā (the song, not the album), we saw how The Boss ripped the song from the headlines, chronicling the murder spree, conviction, and pending execution of the killer Charlie Starkweather and his girlfriend, … Continue reading →
In a way, this entire blog serves as an attempt to answer to the question: Why? Why do people commit murder, and why do we write, sing, and listen to songs about those murders? So far, weāve spilled a lot … Continue reading →
