Authors believe Caril Ann Fugate was unfairly convicted in ’58 killing spree (Frighteners connection

[Omaha Steve]

OP material below IMDB material.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116365/trivia (Frighteners)

IMDB: Johnny Bartlett" is named after Velda and Marion Bartlett, the second and third victims of Charles Starkweather, who murdered 11 people throughout Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958, accompanied by his his 15-year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate, whose precise role in the killings is not known. The story has been dramatized in Badlands (1973) and other movies. In the film, the Johnny Bartlett character names Starkweather as his role model. Strangely, Starkweather and the victims Bartlett are buried together in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Edit: I forgot to mention one of my R. Lee Ermey autographs is his Sgt. Hiles role in Frighteners. I stood in line several hours to get it. I have two of the doughnut scene in Full Metal Jacket.


http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/authors-believe-caril-ann-fugate-was-unfairly-convicted-in-killing/article_4527b369-eb0b-53b5-8f2d-8ca12dbe22e5.html



Associated Press
A new book claims that Lincoln teenager Caril Ann Fugate broke up with Charles Starkweather two days before he began a two-state murder spree by killing her mother, 2-year-old sister and stepfather in 1958.

POSTED: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 1:00 AM

By Paul Hammel / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — A new book claims that prosecutors and police conspired to win a murder conviction against the teen girlfriend of mass murderer Charles Starkweather.

Among other things, the 248-page book, “The Twelfth Victim,” maintains that Starkweather was “coached” to provide false testimony against Caril Ann Fugate and that evidence was withheld indicating that she was his hostage, and not a participant.

The book leans heavily on interviews given by Fugate, now 70, and concludes with a 24-point summary of the “ruthless and improper handling” of the then-14-year-old Lincoln girl’s arrest and trial.

The two co-authors expressed hope that the book will lead to a pardon for Fugate, who spent 18 years in prison before being paroled in 1976. She had been sentenced to life in prison for her role in one of 11 slayings committed by Starkweather, a 19-year-old garbageman who dressed like James Dean and is portrayed as the first mass killer of the media age.

Edit 2: FULL story at link.

[WinkyDink]

1. Rank revisionism. She didn't give one whit about her murdered mother or baby sister:

What happened after the murder of her family defies belief.

Velda's body was dragged to the old outhouse and shoved down the toilet opening. Caril's baby half-sister was put in a box that had been used for garbage and taken out to the outhouse as well. Marion Bartlett was dumped on the floor of the chicken coop.

Once that was done, Caril and Charlie cleaned up the blood and mess inside and spent the rest of the evening drinking Pepsi and eating potato chips. They stayed there in the house, just a few yards away from the rotting corpses of Caril's family, for almost a week, buying milk and bread on credit from the milkman every day. Charlie would go down to the grocery store to buy a few other essentials.

In the days after the murders, a number of visitors came by the house. Caril turned most of them away with a sign on the front door saying, "Stay a way Every Body is sick with the Flue."

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/starkweather/5c.html

I'm old enough to remember this crime.

[sharp_stick]

8. I tend to agree

it's human nature to think that she's been unfairly targeted but the evidence really doesn't support that afaic.

[Michigander_Life]

2. Sounds credible

The book leans heavily on interviews given by Fugate, now 70, and concludes with a 24-point summary of the “ruthless and improper handling” of the then-14-year-old Lincoln girl’s arrest and trial.

[former9thward]

3. She doesn't look like a 'hostage' in the photo...

[Omaha Steve]

6. I believe the photo...

Was taken when they dated if memory serves.

[Archae]

4. I admit it, it is possible, the scenario put forward in the book.

What is MORE possible is the scenario of space aliens kidnapping Fugate and Starkweather and replacing them with clones so as to study our species.

[jwirr]

5. I also remember listening to the rampage on the radio. When I was in college I did a practicum at

they prison in York where Caril was kept. I do not remember meeting her but I most have as I met most of the women housed there. One thing I do remember is our group asking the warden how she handled having a 15 year old girl in prison. She told us that she very early realized that she was housing a child and from there on she (the warden) proceeded to raise her as a child. I also remember that she was well liked by the rest of the prisoners.

[edbermac]

7. I'm sure it's going to rank right up there with OJ's book If I Did It

The author did extensive interviews with OJ and concluded that he had nothing to do with it.

What a surprise.