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Caril Ann Fugate (born July 30, 1943) is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder. [2] She was the adolescent girlfriend of spree killer Charles Starkweather , being just 14 years old when his murders took place in 1958. [ 3 ]
Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Fugate served seventeen years in prison, gaining release in 1976. [5] Starkweather's execution by electric chair in 1959 was the last execution in Nebraska until 1994. [6]
Stark Raving Mad, depicting a fictional account of the Charles Starkweather/Carol Fugate killings Stark Raving Mad (TV series) , a 1999 NBC sitcom Stark Raving Mad (2002 film)
The first half of the miniseries covers the murders. The second half covers the trials of Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, his 14-year-old girlfriend accomplice. Their increasingly disparate versions of events are contrasted as the trials unfold.
Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir [2] period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut.The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis (Spacek), a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruthers (Sheen).
Aileen Carol Wuornos – Wuornos, a prostitute, shot and killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 to rob them. Wuornos was sentenced to death. She was executed in October 2002. Dorothea Puente ran a boarding home in Sacramento during the 1980s. Puente was accused of poisoning her victims, stealing their Social Security checks, then ...
William Craig Fugate (born May 14, 1959) [1] is the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [2] As director for the Florida Emergency Management Division, he oversaw the "Big 4 of '04" and as the administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he organized recovery efforts for a record of eighty-seven disasters in 2011.
A Crime to Remember is an American documentary television series that airs on Investigation Discovery and premiered on November 12, 2013. It tells the stories of notorious crimes that captivated attention of the media and the public when they occurred, such as the United Airlines Flight 629 bombing from 1955.