In Natural Born Killers he was mentioned, he had killed Scagnetti's Mother. Charles Whitman served in the Marines before he enrolled in the University of Texas. At the time he was suffering with mental illness and acute fits of anger, Charles killed his mother and wife and than on August 1, 1966, he went atop a 300 foot tower and targeted people below. He killed 16 people and injured many more before he was killed by the police, who stormed the tower.
Charles Whitman was born on June 24, 1941, in Lake Worth, Florida. Charles was a good student and Eagle Scout who left home early to escape a violent father. Also at a early age Charles was taught to handle guns. Charles joined the Marine Corps to be a sharpshooter and then enrolled in the University of Texas, where he met his wife Kathryn Leissner (they married in 1962).
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