Karla Faye Tucker

Karla Faye Tucker Brown (November 18, 1959 ? February 3, 1998) Karla Tucker was born and grew up in Houston, Texas. When she was 13, she began traveling with the Allman Brothers Band. In her early 20's she started to hang out with bikers and on June 13, 1983 she entered the home of another biker with Danny Garrett and James Leibrant to steal a motorcycle. During the robbery, two persons were killed and Danny Garrett and Karla Tucker were convicted of their murder.

The trendy lie

During Karla Tucker's trial, tape recorded by Garrett's brother while wearing a wire was played on which she claimed that she had multiple orgasms during the killings. She retorted that this was just a big talk to impress her friends. On this point, Florence King (National Review, March 9,1998) commented that

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::The murder occurred in 1983 when the multiple-orgasm craze was going full-tilt, when it was impossible to turn on the TV without hearing feminists talking about the female's "superior capacity," or read Cosmopolitan without finding an article on the mighty G-spot. I would bet anything that enough of this pop carnality filtered through to Karla Faye to inspire the trendy lie that sealed her doom.

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