S18 Ep67: Pro Bono: The 18 Year Defense of Caril Ann Fugate w/Jeff MacArthur
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
In 1958, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend Caril Fugate. The question soon arose, was Caril a kidnapped victim, or a heartless accomplice?
Appointed to her case, attorney John McArthur initially accepted the assignment out of a sense of constitutional duty. But as he delved deeper, he found that the truth was far more complicated than anyone was letting on. Up against incredible odds, and with a strong conviction of her innocence, McArthur remained with Caril and fought for her freedom for 18 years. For this service, he took no pay, accepting the case pro bono. This book, "Pro Bono...", follows the long struggle of McArthur, his partner Merril Reller, and John's son James as they took on the Nebraska legal system and a public that had already determined Caril's guilt before ever hearing a word of testimony. His Grandson, Jeff joins TCT today to tell his story and the story of his family and where Caril's story goes from here!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:26.9 | Got a good show in store for you today folks. |
| 0:29.8 | You know there is an event out there. |
| 0:33.1 | I'll call it an event. |
| 0:35.0 | It really is. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a crime. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a serial killing crime out there that inspired Bruce Brings Dean to write one of |
| 0:41.2 | his more famous albums. |
| 0:42.5 | One of his more obscure albums, one of the albums that his fans out there. |
| 0:47.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:48.9 | I guess you could say, salivate over because it creatively is one of his deepest albums. |
| 0:55.3 | It is an event that inspired Stephen King to become an author. |
| 1:00.6 | It's an event that shocked the Midwest. |
| 1:05.6 | It's the killings of Charlie Stark with him. |
| 1:09.9 | And in that he brought along a 14 year old girl who it could be argued either was it |
| 1:16.8 | a accomplice or was just an innocent girl who was brought along for the ride and was terrified |
| 1:22.8 | along the way by the name of Caroline Fugate. |
| 1:26.9 | And in that there's the rub, there's the controversy and the story of whether she was given |
| 1:38.8 | a fair deal, a raw deal and what happened with her. |
| 1:43.6 | She was represented by an attorney who was a fine, upstanding attorney, an attorney |
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