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On wyomings route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a madman named charles starkweather. >> i looked inside the car and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his feet under the controls and his hand laying over in the passenger side. so i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel, with my right hand i got the stock and then he got in the middle of the highway struggling for the gun. >> carol fugate watched as the two men batled on the desolate ...

>> charlies story is that -- and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with -- starkweather was having trouble releasing the cars brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or ill kill you. >> coming up, joe sprinkle may not...

>> charlies story is that -- and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with -- starkweather was having trouble releasing the cars brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or ill kill you. >> coming up, joe sprinkle may not...

On wyomings route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a madman named charles starkweather. >> i looked inside the car and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his feet under the controls and his hand laying over in the passenger side. so i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel, with my right hand i got the stock and then he got in the middle of the highway struggling for the gun. >> carol fugate watched as the two men batled on the desolate ...

>> charlies story is that -- and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with -- starkweather was having trouble releasing the cars brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or ill kill you. >> coming up, joe sprinkle may not...

On wyomings route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a madman named charles starkweather. >> i looked inside the car and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his feet under the controls and his hand laying over in the passenger side. so i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel, with my right hand i got the stock and then he got in the middle of the highway struggling for the gun. >> carol fugate watched as the two men batled on the desolate ...

>> charlies story is that -- and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with -- starkweather was having trouble releasing the cars brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or ill kill you. >> coming up, joe sprinkle may not...

On wyomings route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a mad man named charles starkweather. starkweather was pointing a shotgun at him and screaming about releasing the emergency brake. >> i looked inside the car. and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his fooed feet under the controls and his head over in the passenger side. i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel. with my right hand i got the stock and then we got in the middle of the hi...

Jammed. and he yelled at carol to give him another gun. carol instead of giving him a gun. pumped bullets into mr. collison. charlie testified he said, she was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with him slumped on the passenger floor board. starkweather was having trouble releasing the brake when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> i did a u-turn. and parked bump er er-to-bumperh the car. he emerged from the car and pointed a rifle at me. and said get your hand ...