Ep. - 612 - DIRECTOR OF THE 12TH VICTIM TRUE STORY BEHIND CHARLES STARKWEATHER AND CARIL FUGATE MURDER SPREE
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Director Nicola Marsh discusses the four-part docuseries The 12th Victim. The Showtime series sheds new light on the infamous 1958 Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murder case, in which the teenage couple was charged and convicted of brutally killing 11 victims at random. Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, THE 12TH VICTIM reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as locals watched the 18-year-old Starkweather kill 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side.
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| 0:18.5 | Welcome back to another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:27.5 | This episode is about the new True Crime Dock you series, Eerie Don't Show Time Called, |
| 0:33.0 | the 12th victim. |
| 0:35.2 | Charles Starkweather and Carol Anne Fugate were a teen-aged Bonnie and Clyde for the 1950s. |
| 0:40.9 | In 1958, they murdered her family, hold up in her house for almost a week, drove the |
| 0:45.7 | roads of Nebraska and went on a merciless killing spree. |
| 0:50.0 | Charlie Starkweather was an 18-year-old near-do-well, Carol, a 14-year-old Lalita, in love with her quintessential |
| 0:56.8 | All-American Bad Boy. |
| 0:59.0 | Their story inspired movies like The 1963's The Saddest, 1993's Natural Worn Killers, |
| 1:06.1 | and 1973's Bad Lands, as well as the Bruce Springsteen song of the same name. |
| 1:11.5 | Charlie was the third of seven children in a poor family. |
| 1:16.5 | His father guy was a carpenter who had arthritis in his hands and was often unemployed. |
| 1:21.1 | His mother Helen worked as a waitress. |
| 1:23.9 | In school, Charlie was often bullied for the way he looked and his slight speech impediment. |
| 1:29.7 | He was also very near-sighted, not even able to read the top letter of an eye-chart, but |
| 1:34.5 | it wasn't discovered until he was a teenager before that he had been thought of as a slow |
| 1:39.2 | learner. |
| 1:40.6 | During Jim class, his physique became better and he started exacting revenge on those |
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