One of North Dakota's wealthiest farmers was also a serial killer Eugene Butler was a founding father of the town of Niagara, N.D., in 1882. North Dakota link to notorious Son of Sam murders part of new - InForum The Butler home was razed, and today a workshop owned by an area family stands on the site. In this period as a young teenager, Starkweather went from being one of the most well-behaved teenagers in the community to one of the most troubled. Records show Eugene Butler was born in Niagara County, N.Y., in December 1848. I thought, This guy got some bad dope, Knoop said. Accused Man Died at Jamestown in 1913. Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders, along with multiple attempted murders and sexual assaults, and was captured by bystanders while trying to carjack a vehicle in Los Angeles just days after the Mission Viejo attack. One of North Dakota's wealthiest farmers was also a serial killer Starkweather taught Fugate how to drive, and one day she crashed the car belonging to Starkweather's father, who banished Starkweather from the family home. Starkweather killed the family dog by breaking its neck, to keep it from alerting the Wards. In the bedroom where Carns and his fiance were sleeping, Ramirez fired five shots from a .25-caliber handgun, three of which struck Carns in the head. [6], The Starkweather case has been analyzed by criminologists and psychologists in an attempt to understand spree killers' motivations and precipitating factors. Dr. Hotchkiss over the telephone last evening said that he remembered Butler but that there was little about his case to distinguish him from the other insane patients. At some later date one man was killed. Second, Butler was actually 54 years old at the time, not 40. Gietzen knocked on the door of the base housing unit and asked the woman who answered if John Carr was living with her. Often, the women were targeted as they sat with a boyfriend in a parked car. [2][7][1] It is suspected that he had probably murdered the men because he thought they were going to steal money from his house, a lot of which he had lying about. Carns underwent many years of therapy to help heal his injuries, both physical and emotional. According to the 2010 Census, Niagara has 53 residents.