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The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage

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In 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather gained notoriety as one of the most nation’s first spree killers. He murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming. After a week at the run, he Used to be arrested, later convicted, and sentenced to die within the electric chair.
 
Starkweather’s girlfriend, Caril Fugate, fourteen, Used to be with him all over the murder spree. Used to be she his hostage or a willing participant within the murders that included her parents and three-year-old sister? This question still stirs debate more than fifty years later. Fugate claims she Used to be too terrified to attempt escape-Starkweather had told her he would make a phone call and have her circle of relatives killed if she disobeyed him. Unbeknownst to her, he had already murdered her circle of relatives.
 
A jury found her guilty of being an accessory to first degree murder. She Used to be sentenced to life in prison; on the other hand, in 1976 she Used to be paroled. Now, in The Twelfth Victim, attorneys Linda M. Battisti and John S. Berry, Sr. pull together years of research to tell how Fugate Used to be a victim of both Charles Starkweather and the Nebraska justice system. Their book tells how the teenager Used to be grilled by prosecuting attorneys for hours before ever being told she had a right to an attorney.
 
The book details how Starkweather, who gave nine versions of how the murders occurred and had already been sentenced to death, changed into the chief witness against Caril at her trial. The authors also expose how Starkweather Used to be coached for days by prosecutors on easy methods to testify at Fugate’s trial-including not telling the jury that he had planned to kill Caril on three separate occasions. This can be a shocking story that has never been told.
 
The True Story of How a Fourteen-Year-Old Nebraska Girl Used to be Denied Justice in a Murder Case that Stunned the Nation

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