Caril Ann Fugate

Caril Ann Fugate (born 1943) was the thirteen-year-old accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather.

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1943 - Spree killer - Charles Starkweather

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She lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1956, she started dating Charles Starkweather. He was five years her senior, a dropout, and a truck unloader at the Western Newspaper Union warehouse. On January 21, 1958, Fugate came home to find that Starkweather had shot her parents to death during a row. Fugate made lunch while Starkweather choked her baby sister to death.

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Lincoln - Nebraska - January 21 - 1958

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During the next seven days, the pair lived in the house, turning away all visitors, which made Fugate's relatives suspicious. Starkweather and Fugate then fled, driving across Nebraska on a spree of robbery and murder that claimed seven more lives before they were arrested.

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Starkweather was executed in the electric chair in 1959. He insisted that although he had personally dispatched all the victims, Fugate was as culpable as he was and that she should be sitting on his lap when he went to the chair.

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Electric chair - 1959

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Caril Fugate was tried for her role in the murder spree. The jury did not believe Fugate's claim that Starkweather had held her hostage, because she had plenty of opportunities to escape. She was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nebraska Correctional Center For Women in York. She was a model prisoner and was paroled in 1977 after serving 18 years. She now lives in Michigan and works as a medical assistant. She had never married and reportedly refuses to discuss the case.

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York - 1977 - Michigan

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