Paperback. Pages: 320 Publisher: VINTAGE In 1958. As the snow fell across Neaska. 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend. Caril Ann. Climbed into a stolen car and blazed into history with a string of bloody murders that stunned America. But why. over thirty years later. does Lowell. a Manhattan antiques collector. still dream of what happened And who is Puggy. the young girl obsessed by the murders And then there's Caril Ann's version of the story - from the day she first met Charlie to the end of their rampage on a farm outside the town of Valentine. Disturbing and intense. Outside Valentine is a story of devastating losses and the transforming power of love.