Caril fugate biography

Caril Ann Fugate (born July 30, 1943, Nebraska) is the youngest female in the United States to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder.^[1] She was the teenage girlfriend of Charles Starkweather, a serial killer. Fugate was age fourteen when Starkweather's conviction happened.^[2] She was convicted as his accomplice and given life imprisonment.^[3] She was paroled in 1976.

Background to the crime spree

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Fugate lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with her mother Velma Bartlett and her stepfather Marion Bartlett. In 1956, at age 13, Fugate got romantically involved to Charles Raymond Starkweather.^[4] The man had dropped out of high school. He was born almost five years before Fugate was.

They bet by way of Caril's sister Barbara.

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The latter was dating Starkweather's friend Bob von Busch. Starkweather was a truck unloader for the Western Unionnewspaper warehouse.

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