Merle Delore Collison, 34, a White male, died on January 29, 1958, near Douglas, Wyoming, in the final violent moments of Charles Starkweather’s rampage across Nebraska and Wyoming. Online historical accounts and contemporaneous reporting identify Collison as a traveling shoe salesman from Great Falls, Montana, who had pulled off along the highway west of Douglas. The scene has the stillness of a winter roadside stop abruptly broken by a killer desperate for another car and another chance to k
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