The Mad Dog Killer's Girlfriend: Caril Ann Fugate

Criminal Broads

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In 1958, Nebraska was terrified by a spree killing so brutal, so atrocious that it seemed impossible to believe it was pulled off by...teenagers. When Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate were apprehended, she ran screaming to the cops, telling them he was going to kill her. He told them she was a killer, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello my friends and welcome to episode 8 of Criminal Broads a true crime
0:20.6	podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. I'm Tori
0:23.7	Telfer and I appreciate your patience as you waited with faded breath for this
0:28.6	episode. I accidentally took a summer break. I had two family reunions and a lot of work and a lot of travel and I just, you know, the criminal
0:37.3	broads, I abandoned the criminal broads temporarily for which I apologize. But I'm back and I hope it will be worth the weight
0:44.0	because I am here today with a story that I really like because it feels like a
0:49.0	narrative we've heard before but it isn't. As with all things true crime, it's very, very murky. So let's get to it. This story has some of the elements of sort of a quintessential American adventure, which makes it appealing on its surface.
1:06.6	There's a girl, there's a gun, and there's a getaway car. Do you remember being 14?
1:31.0	Do you remember being 14? When I was 14, my family lived in a little town in North Carolina and I had
1:35.8	about 25 crushes. Now, none of them knew that I had a crush on them and I didn't talk to any of them, but my feelings for them were powerful.
1:47.0	At one point, I was obsessed with the boys on my brother's baseball team.
1:50.0	Oh, now, those are real athletes, I thought to myself another time I planted a daffodil bulb at the bottom of our yard in honor of a boy I knew who was really cute and really loud and who had fallen into a bush and somehow punctured
2:06.6	his thigh really badly.
2:08.9	I thought that was so major, the wound, the brush with violence, the surviving. I look back at that moment now, me
2:18.4	kneeling in the dirt, planting something for a boy who never knew I liked him, with awe at how intensely a 14-year-old
2:26.5	girl can create something out of nothing.
2:29.7	I was spinning this intense love story from pure air like I was spinning gold.
2:35.0	What were you like when you were 14?
2:39.0	Who did you like?
2:40.0	Was it someone you'd like today?
2:42.0	Someone you wish you ended up with? What did you do when you were 14?
2:46.6	Would you want to be remembered by it? Would you want to be judged by it? Sentenced for it?
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