carol's stepfather and mother had been shot and stabbed to death. 2 1/2-year-old betty jean was bludgeoned whbe w rifle and stabbed with a knife. carol said she came home to find starkweather holding a gun on her. the then 46-year-old carol ann fugate he scribed what happened next. >> he had the gun in my face and had me sit in a rocking chair and this is when he told me that my family was over at this woman's house, and if i did what i was told, they wouldn't be hurt. all he had to do was make a phone call and they would die. >> a shot gun blast would cause a lot of damage and apparently he was able to clean it up before he came home. how was this possible? >> he had two hours to clean it up. >> the three bodies having been dump-in two sheds in the backyard went undiscovered for nearly two weeks as charlie and carol remained in the house. >> i think charlie's story is that he got into an argument with her stepfather and it escalated from there and ended up shooting the stepfather, her mother ran in screaming, he then killed her mother. >> and in your view, carol ann fugate was there, saw

carol's stepfather and mother had been shot and stabbed to death. 2 1/2-year-old betty jean was bludgeoned whbe w rifle and stabbed with a knife. carol said she came home to find starkweather holding a gun on her. the then 46-year-old carol ann fugate he scribed what happened next. >> he had the gun in my face and had me sit in a rocking chair and this is when he told me that my family was over at this woman's house, and if i did what i was told, they wouldn't be hurt. all he had to do was make a phone call and they would die. >> a shot gun blast would cause a lot of damage and apparently he was able to clean it up before he came home. how was this possible? >> he had two hours to clean it up. >> the three bodies having been dump-in two sheds in the backyard went undiscovered for nearly two weeks as charlie and carol remained in the house. >> i think charlie's story is that he got into an argument with her stepfather and it escalated from there and ended up shooting the stepfather, her mother ran in screaming, he then killed her mother. >> and in your view, carol ann fugate was there, saw

in order to do that i had to write it from the various view whosepoints of lives impacted betty jeannd vice versa. tavis: speaking of vantage point from which you had to write since there are so many characters here. i am curious as to your process. how do you take what is a very and deliver itue in a narrative that is poignant, that is funny at times, that is not proselytizing. that is a serious issue and you take it and how do you turn it into a novel? rex is a dramatize it. because i dramatize it. i love writing in first person more than third. i have to basically suspend my own world. i don't exist. i am just a conduit. -- so i can be a years old eight years old, i can be the mother of a kid and you find out certain things, i am not going to say. and i take what people feel and think, especially when it is different and i find it liberating, to be honest with you. i empathize with the young man who was in prison but i see a lot of letters from for his nurse. they used to get my nerves, especially family members. everybody is innocent. i know differently. it is how you -- how i am