Fugate still divides public opinion: was she Charles Starkweather’s cold-hearted accomplice or a petrified, manipulated child unaware that he brutally killed her family?
“; songs such as Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” and Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” .
Starkweather was convicted and executed in 1959, which leaves us with the subject of “The 12th Victim”:, the 14-year-old girlfriend/witness to Starkweather’s carnage who accompanied him, whether willingly or unwillingly, on his homicidal rampage.
Caril Ann Fugate, 14, and Charles Starkweather, 19, before the Nebraska killing spree. Starkweather implicated her in some of the murders.Fugate after she and Starkweather were arrested in 1958. She’s wearing the coat of murder victim Clara Ward.“The 12th Victim” goes a long way toward setting the record straight, at least according to director.
It’s all very compelling, but I’m guessing “The 12th Victim” still won’t sway a number of those people old enough to remember the case and its immediate aftermath. I do think, though, that anyone watching the documentary with an open mind, or those who eschew the standard, well-worn Starkweather narrative of a psycho killer and his 14-year-old starry-eyed girlfriend, will find compelling evidence that Fugate/Clair is the only person who knows what“The 12th Victim” premieres Feb. 17 at 8 p.m.
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