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[Menacing rumble]

[Berry vo] You should be here in Lincoln when they have an

execution.

[Faint echoes of laughter and cheers]

The people partying and drinking beer and yelling.

A smaller group with candles praying.

Ominous music

[mckee vo] One of the penitentiary guards was taking

him to the room, and Charley says, "what's your hurry?"

[Cell door slams]

Executions are always scheduled for early-morning hours because

there is a tremendous drain on electricity.

[O'Donnell vo] When they were strapping him in the electric

chair, he said, "these straps are too loose.

Would you please tighten them?"

And then, they asked him if he had any last words,

and he said, "no."

[Mckee vo] It came and it went and it was done.

1959, he was gone.

[Male reporter] Okay, Floyd, you just came out.

Did it disturb you?

No, it didn't particularly disturb me.

I...

I have been concerned about my own feelings of compassion and

emotion since then and wondering why it didn't.

Sparse dramatic music

nothing.

Eerie music

[Larkin vo] [Chuckling] There was no way Charley was going

anywhere but to the afterlife.

You watched all of the anger and hurt and fear,

and with Charley gone, there was only one person left to take

that pain out on and it was her.

People wanted payback.

Her hands were bound in front of her,

and there was a gag on her mouth.

[Man vo] It was the first of its kind... these rebels without

a cause killing people for no reason.

You could feel the fear just on the TV itself.

[Man vo] Charley starkweather saw himself as James Dean.

I think he's crazy.

[Man vo] Caril always wanted to be somebody.

She wanted to be a star.

[Woman vo] I thought, "oh, wow, is she a hard-lookin' broad."

[Man vo] I see, really, a scared little girl.

[Man vo] The only two people who witnessed what went on were

Charles starkweather and caril fugate,

and everybody else is dead.

Few of us have occasion to know women who have been in jail...

And even fewer who have been in a penitentiary.

And this is not surprising, primarily because a woman must

commit a shocking crime, indeed, and be completely rejected by

the community before the court will incarcerate a woman.

Suspenseful synth music

[Anderson vo] There's always been a kind of willful

innocence.

It's all nice, it's all one nice middleclass,

we're nice to each other, it's prospering.

And whatever we do is okay because we're good,

we're the good guys."

That has always been there.

[Male vo] The state contended that caril fugate willingly

aided and abetted starkweather in this crime and was equally

guilty under the law.

And she was in this absolutely paralyzing situation.

[Male reporter] Caril!

[Male vo] Led near-collapse from the courtroom,

she became the youngest person ever to face life imprisonment

in this state.

Reformatory that she did.

Control, bring a closure to it, and move on.

But with caril, I'm not sure she would understand what prison

was...

Until, you know, it happened.

Because she was still a juvenile,

she was in solitary confinement.

She was not allowed to be with anybody.

Eerie sad music

she was put in a situation that is usually considered torture

for about a year and a half, until she could be put into

general population.

So...

I understand it was so horrific,

and the staff had never dealt with a 14-year-old girl.

Stern, you know...

Not-caring.

Imagine, you know, a 14-year-old.

You know, "I need my mother."

And, uh...

She didn't have a mother.

I lost my family too.

There was days when I would just cry out of loneliness,

you know, for another human being.

Well, I used to sit by my window,

'cause my window looked out onto our gate,

and I used to think, you know, "they're gonna come and they're

gonna find out.

You know, they're gonna...

They know that I didn't."

And I'd wait and I'd wait and I'd watch out the window,

and every time a car would come in,

I'd just kinda hold my breath.

[Jeff mcarthur vo] There's a naivet.

I mean, even when she was in prison,

she still had this optimism that "someday,

I'll be free."

Caril wanted a new case, she wanted another trial,

even if there had been a risk of her having a more severe

sentence.

She wanted to prove herself innocent.

And there was a supreme court decision.

I was still in high school at the time.

[John mcarthur vo] It was relating to whether caril could

even be tried as an adult, which she was.

Her hopes were high that "the supreme court will correct this,

they don't have any choice!"

Eerie tense music

but the supreme court held that she could be tried as an adult.

Judges, courts are like anybody else: They are subject to the

public opinion.

[Cell door slams]

Caril was devastated.

Suspenseful synth music

[thunder crashes]

[Murley vo] In the public consciousness,

it was a sensational crime at the time,

because you've got all of these very powerful themes,

presented in the package of these two kids:

Juvenile delinquency...

Love gone wrong...

Rape and murder.

[Anderson vo] From a storytelling sense,

it, like, fit pulpy storytelling from the get-go.

Rebels without a cause going out and killing people for no reason

and driving across america.

"I'm a nomad with 300 horsepower."

You could maintain your sanctimony and your piety as

you're reveling in every detail of the sex and death.

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[ransick vo] While Charley was on death row,

he set out to write his autobiography.

Amazingly, a reporter that was favorable to him helped him get

a truncated version printed in parade magazine,

the number-one magazine in america,

with his own byline.

I mean, it's absurd.

He was insane.

[Charles vo] All the time the spree was taking place,

I was scared...

Jittery, tired from loss of sleep.

I was gonna give up.

Caril then threatened out loud that she wasn't gonna give up,

and that no one else was gonna make her.

And with a shotgun laying across her lap with the barrel pointing

directly at me...

And with her fast talking, she convinced me...

That we didn't have anything to gain by giving up."

[Ransick vo] Charley stole caril's narrative,

and parade magazine started part of the false narrative that

caril was in cahoots with this guy.

Everybody started to look at the case the way they wanted and

would take Charley starkweather's narrative and

concoct their own stories.

It started to seep into popular culture...

With 'the sadist.'

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there was actually a 'gunsmoke' episode...

If a fella's smart, he can live by his wits.

The 'naked city' episode...

[Man vo] What about the starkweather case?

How many people did they kill?

13, I think.

A nice, round superstitious number.

[Ransick vo] People were selling tickets to a certain

narrative, and caril never got a break.

Well, I'm not responsible; I'm underage.

Take that cigarette out of your mouth.

You take it out of my mouth.

Caril was a sort of innocent-seeming schoolgirl...

Willing to reverse all of the moral and social codes of her

society.

She was a backstabber...

A narcissist...

Our for herself.

Please, I beg of you, talk to your boyfriend.

Tell him this is wrong.

Tell him, please!

My god, child, haven't you any feelings at all?!

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[woman shrieks]

[Murley vo] The starkweather case became a mirror reflecting

the darker aspects of our society,

our humanity.

[Ransick vo] This set of crimes and these characters stayed in

the national memory...

For better and for worse.

[Wind blowing]

[Woman] You're here with us now in a home away from home.

What you did is immaterial to me.

I want you to understand that I look at you as a girl...

And you're starting a new life.

She had to maintain a very precarious balance.

She had to...

Walk a tight rope.

She could not identify with the inmates or she would become an

inmate in spirit, in outlook.

She had to be aloof from the management or she would incur

the enmity of the inmates.

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you know, having gone through the trauma with starkweather,

I mean, that wold be a horrifying experience for

anyone.

I mean, he groomed that girl from the day he met her as to

control her.

So caril, you know, did not trust too many people,

and she carried the baggage, yeah,

of that whole crime into the prison system.

I tried, always, to speak quietly to caril...

And some way or other, I just tried to instill into her a

quieter voice, a nicer walk...

And things that I thought would help her,

because I had no idea, really, that caril would be with us as

long as she was.

I started in corrections in York,

Nebraska in '68, and caril Ann fugate was the gate girl,

so when I went in for the interview,

caril Ann fugate opened the gate for me,

[chuckling] Which I had no idea this was her.

The women worse housedresses.

They could not wear makeup, and when they spoke to the staff,

they were not to look at us.

[Cell door slams]

But that was the era; We were very punitive.

I started out on night shift and Rose through the ranks.

Normally, to become a warden, you were usually 55 years old,

60.

[Man vo] Today, the reformatory is run by 36-year-old Jackie

Crawford, the youngest warden in the United States.

You know, there's a certain therapeutic value to lockup,

and we have seen women grow... really grow.

I was young and I was adventurous and bold... much

bolder than probably should have been... and,

at that time, made a lot of changes.

[Man vo] The reformatory's rules are strict,

but the atmosphere is generally relaxed.

Jackie Crawford allowed for a lot more freedoms of the

prisoners.

And one of those programs was to allow inmates who were on good

behavior to go see their lawyers.

So caril could go and spend a whole weekend with my

grandparents or with my parents in Lincoln.

I was even babysat by her a couple of times.

And my father took her to the swimming pool of this apartment

complex that he owned.

We just all went out swimming, had a good day and all that,

and then caril was taken back to the prison.

And complained about it.

And Jackie Crawford stopped allowing her to go to Lincoln,

because people were so hateful of her.

To this day, you go there and you bring up caril fugate,

a lot of people will say, "she should have been right there on

Charley's lap."

The emotion of this whole thing, it permeated Lincoln.

There's a stigma, and in corrections,

we're not there to forgive.

[Alarm ringing]

We're not there for atonement.

The women, they have to be able to look in that mirror,

and they know what they've done or what they haven't done,

and they have to live with that; I don't.

[Caril vo] I really wish that there was something I could do.

I wish there was some magic word I could say or [sniffles]

A magic phrase...

Or something...

That would... you know, that could...

Bring these people back.

I'm sorry.

I'm deeply sorry it happened.

And, um...

I swear to almighty god, I never killed any of them.

Tender ethereal music

I missed a part here.

[Sewing machine tapping]

You know, when caril was incarcerated,

she was never once cited for any disciplinary action.

[Jackie vo] Caril was a very passive kind of person.

She never really challenged any rule or any direction,

and any time there was any controversy or any tension in

the institution, she froze.

She froze; I watched her.

Jackie Crawford told me caril came to her crying one day and

said she wanted to be locked up in solitary.

And Jackie asked, "why in the world would you want to do

that?" [chuckles]

Caril kept saying that other inmates were trying to incite

her to do something to break the rules 'cause they knew of her

perfect record, [chuckling] Which probably very few of them

had.

Caril said, [chuckling] "I'm afraid I'll blow...

I'll do something."

[Jackie vo] She was tortured.

She was tortured every day.

When people would come in, you know,

to tour... you know, special interest groups... the first

thing out of everyone's mouth: "Oh,

where's caril Ann fugate?

Where's that murderer?"

You know...

She said, "if I hadn't hooked up with this guy or met this guy,

you know, all of this wouldn't have happened.

It's really my fault."

She continuously blamed herself for so much of it.

"Why didn't you run here, or why didn't you run there when

you had this opportunity or that opportunity?"

And at no time...

Did I have a clear-cut opportunity.

No time, without it being said that someone would die.

[Ward vo] I feel like one of the reasons why this story is so

powerful and so resonant is because of her.

She was the story more than he was,

because without her, he's just...

A guy walking around killing people.

There must have been so much speculation about the fact that

they broke the norms of their repressive small-town Nebraska,

you know, society and struck out on their own,

and I can only imagine

how many teenagers fantasized about being

able to do that... you know, maybe minus the murder spree.

Hey, where you goin'?!

[Gunshots]

[Murley vo] And 'badlands' was clearly picking up on this

archetype in 1973.

[Holly] Daddy?

This is Holly.

[Murley vo] In that movie, malick is narrating the crime

spree, obviously.

Hey.

[Gunshots]

[Murley vo] And the relationship between these two

kids.

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but with 'badlands, ' it did much more than just present a crime

story.

It was questioning not just why these kids did this but,

like, what does this mean?

Who are we that this happens?

Through the lens of that crime, malick is trying to understand

the desire to live an image, rather than a boring reality...

Rather than just, you know, your boring old "I'm a garbage man."

[Man vo] You know who that son of a bitch looks like?

I'll kiss your ass if you don't look like James Dean.

[Murley vo] He's able to explore ideas about nihilism and

existentialism.

And maybe that's why he wanted to distance himself from the

actual starkweather events: Because he was doing something

so different with their story.

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when the movie 'badlands" was made,

Terrence malick and Martin sheen brought the movie to York and

had a private screening with caril.

[Malick vo] She had made arrangements to get out on a

weekend leave...

Just so we could all gather and talk.

You know, at the only cafe [Chuckling] they have in York,

and he was just so humble and was so comfortable with caril.

And then, the movie.

[Film reel ticking]

[James mcarthur vo] When we sat in the theater,

there weren't very many of us.

Everybody was talking... What was caril's reaction going

to be?

Martin's depiction of starkweather... his mannerisms

were just exactly what she remembered.

Where he's by this box car and he's mumbling to himself going

back and forth...

She says, "I can remember Charley doing that very thing,"

and that's what disturbed her about it.

Caril reached out to Martin, and she said,

"Charley, you've come back to haunt me."

And to the degree I had a crazy adolescent phase,

I was at the peak or depths of that.

And I went to the film knowing that this was based on

starkweather and fugate.

So it just struck many nerves.

[Kit] Hey!

It was only much later, actually,

that I realized, "this is a romanticization."

That film made Charley starkweather look much better

than Charles starkweather was.

[Kit] Don't worry, now, i'm gonna get you off these charges.

There's a whole lot of other boys out there waitin' for

you...

And you're gonna have a lot of fun.

And at the house that would have been my grandparents,

the scenario played out really differently.

[Kit] Hi.

Yes?

[Kit] This your place?

Yes.

[Kit] Anyone else here besides you two?

No.

[Ward vo] Nobody gets killed in that house.

Good deal.

Okay, come on, you two, down in the cellar.

[Ward vo] That movie was so much less brutal than the

actual murders.

[Gunshots]

Think I got 'em?

I don't know.

Well, I'm not going down there to look.

[Battisti vo] 'Badlands' is really a fairytale.

It was nothing like caril's sojourn with mr starkweather.

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sissy spacek as caril went through,

like, a fog.

She's almost pre-euphoric pot smoker.

[Man vo] You think he's crazy, huh?

[Holly vo] I don't know.

They claim I've got him wrapped around my little finger but...

But I never told him to shoot anybody.

Eerie music

'badlands, ' in many ways, reflects Charley's

point-of-view, which was he goes and he does things...

[Gunshot]

And caril kind of goes with it and never really does anything,

but also never really has any emotions about anything.

[Holly vo] I didn't feel shame or feel but just kinda blah,

like when you're sittin' there and all the water's run out of

the bathtub.

[Ward vo] It wasn't the truth, but it was all I had.

Memory is very iffy and fungible,

and in the popular imagination or certainly the imagination

of Bruce Springsteen... 'Badlands' becomes the story.

Singer Bruce Springsteen has released an album that may make

caril fugate and Charles starkweather as well known among

the young as once they were as well known as they were,

for example, when mr starkweather was executed.

[Applause]

For this song, I remember I had been moved by the Terrence

malick film 'badlands' and I got interested in the story.

You can put together a lot of detail,

but unless you pull something up out of yourself,

it's just gonna lay flat on the page.

You gotta find out what you have in common with that character no

matter who they are or what they did.

[Ward vo] When I was in college,

there was an older man.

And I remember him saying, "oh, you know there's a song

about it."

I didn't, and he said, "you don't know Bruce Springsteen's

'Nebraska?'"

through the badlands

of Wyoming...

I was more in shock...

Because I realized how much this story had permeated

popular culture.

You know what I think about?

Sex.

Sex.

Fuckin.'

my mind drives me crazy.

When 'nautral born killers' and 'true romance' and these other

"inspired by" versions of young, attractive movie star couples

going on killing sprees came out in the early '90s,

all made by macho baby boomer dudes... movie directors who

grew up on 'badlands' and starkweather... they all struck

me as brutal...

Pointless...

You know, they're true existential heroes.

[Murley vo] The starkweather story draws viewers no matter

what.

You make every day feel like kindergarten.

Obviously, 'natural born killers' is a re-telling of the

intersection with mass media and the starkweather case.

Mickey and Mallory stole the show.

[Crowd] We want Mallory!

[Woman] What do you think of this turnout, Mallory?

I've never had more fun in my life!

[Murley vo] Those characters become heroes because they're

beautiful, they're interesting and charismatic...

And the violence in these movies is spatter Gore but there's

something really appealing about it.

It's sort of lovingly-rendered violence.

Is where it is.

The filmmaker does his best to reflect society the way he

sees it.

And our society is culturally in a very bankrupt

and violent mode.

We want to get close to violence...

But we don't want it to be real violence,

we don't want it to be too real.

[Laughs]

[Murley vo] It makes it watchable,

it makes it interesting.

It is the ultimate expression of freedom.

[Mallory] You still like me now, Jack?

Gah!

[Gunshot]

[Caril vo] I've always looked to just,

you know, next year.

Or maybe next year, or maybe next year,

or next year, or next year, until,

finally, all these years have tracked off by themselves.

But I've never, you know, stood in the mirror and,

you know, looked and said, you know,

"my goodness, girl, why?"

Because I think probably, personally,

if I had really...

Said in my mind, "this is it.

You are forever and ever and ever doomed,

you know, to a penitentiary,"

I don't think I would have made it.

I really don't.

[Jeff mcarthur vo] Caril appealed her sentence time after

time after time.

The appeals process went on for so long that my father,

who is caril's same age, went through high school,

then through college, then through law school,

and then he actually became her appeals attorney.

And the appeals process ended up going all the way to the us

supreme court again.

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I think caril had hoped this was gonna be it,

she was gonna have a break.

But she was pretty naive, because when you're

institutionalized, it's kind of a bubble.

You know, you really are not subjected to other people's

perception.

Perceptions are so important.

When you terrify an entire state and lock it down,

people don't forget that very quickly.

Person by her very nature.

She always thought that the law was meant for her protection

as well as anybody.

The supreme court decided that the evidence against caril was

so strong that essentially she was not entitled to a fair

trial.

In a case of this magnitude, when there was such a huge

outpouring of prejudice against caril...

The law just breaks down.

That was the end of the appeals; That would have been 1972.

So that was the end of the road.

[Book slams shut]

[Jackie vo] When her appeal was denied,

I received a call from the director of corrections.

He was concerned how she would react.

Would she be suicidal?

And just about the time I hang up,

caril's at my door.

And I just allowed her to talk.

"Why won't they believe me?

I never will get out of here.

I will never be able to prove that I was innocent.

So maybe you should just put me in the hole.

Just forget about me.

Throw away the key!"

You know, it's one of those... just being very...

Disenchanted, so to speak.

[Caril vo] I had, you know, started to feel that

it's just...

It's just too hard to do.

You know, it's really... It's just too hard to do,

I'm not gonna make it tomorrow.

And, uh, it started to show my face started to show,

my hair started to show... that I was going through a difficult

period when I thought, you know...

"What is the use?

I'm just not gonna make it."

And, uh...

Mrs Crawford, the superintendent,

she said, "come here, caril."

She said, "I wanna show you something."

And she took me by the hand, and she went in and she said,

"look in the mirror."

And I looked in the mirror and I cried,

because I looked like I was just going downhill.

I said, "no, no, no, we're not gonna do that."

And I said, "we're gonna do something different.

Maybe we're gonna help build your image."

She said, "well, what do you mean?"

And I said, "well, you know, let's see what we can do."

I said, "go put some makeup on," and I said,

"I always do that when I feel bad,

caril, so go put some makeup on."

And I said, "let's fix your hair."

She had beautiful hair, beautiful hair.

The next day, I went up and I got my hair cut and I fixed

myself up, and I really looked, you know... I looked better,

I felt better, and she gave me something to make me go on.

[Crawford vo] You know, a mass murderer,

if that's what they wanted to portray her as,

we just didn't see that.

And because of her crime and the visibility,

I felt that she needed all the help she could get.

[Man] Now, to five and do it.

You want me to do the sound?

[Man] Yeah, the sound.

[Crawford vo] And at that time, ninette beaver came out.

She was the reporter.

[Crawford vo] Ninette felt like she wanted to see how much she

had grown or what had happened to her.

And caril, you know, of course she met with her,

and ninette was so impressed with caril and how articulate

she was.

So she asked for permission to film with caril.

[Man vo] Nbc news presents...

'Growing up in prison.'

[Crawford vo] Here we go with the media,

the cameras.

You know, this could be an expos and I think she was a

little bit apprehensive.

"Oh, what if they don't like me?

What if they... "You know.

I said, "caril, go in there and just be caril,

because that's important... For people to get to know you.

You know, sometimes, I've wondered...

Why I was the one that, uh...

Always survived.

And, um...

I don't... it's...

It's just something inside you.

It's really hard...

It's really hard to put it in words,

but I used to wonder, um...

Why me?

You know, why was I the only one?

[Crawford vo] They were so impressed how the community had

opened their arms to caril.

[Man vo] Some of the women from the reformatory are allowed to

visit York under supervision.

[Laughter and chatter]

Caril fugate had never been to a bowling alley before her

imprisonment.

She has pushed her average to 103.

[Laughter and applause]

And caril, she was not as afraid as she used to be,

and she started seeing a different side of life.

[Man vo] Caril fugate was baptized a Roman catholic two

years ago.

On Sunday, she works as a volunteer at the local church of

the nazarene.

I found out that i'm a child of god's...

And that no matter what happens...

No matter what happened...

In the sight of god...

It's over.

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[man vo] 400 women have been released since caril fugate

began serving her life sentence.

There is not one person left... not an inmate,

not a guard... who was here when she arrived.

She speaks to civic groups and service clubs throughout the

state without revealing her identity.

But this day, everyone knew who she was.

Our philosophy is to deal with the total woman.

Our program does not deal with why she is there but what she

does while she is there.

When she comes into the...

[Caril vo] I went through a period...

Of wishing that I was someone else.

I would get real upset if people said my last name,

because it was like somebody throwing mud.

It hurt.

But, uh, I am caril fugate, and it doesn't leave a bitter taste

in my mouth.

[Crawford vo] 'Growing up in prison' was kind of the

launching pad to see her in a different perspective,

which was very good for her.

It elevated her profile.

[Caril] I received some from, uh, 13-year-old girls,

14, 18, some of 'em 20.

I want to maybe try and put across to these...

Teenagers that at this age, this is the age that I got in

trouble.

I have some teenage children and, uh...

They have really been doing some deep thinking.

Very deep in thought.

[Crawford vo] That's when caril then applied for parole.

Okay.

[Crawford vo] And there was a lot of controversy.

[Pauline Jensen] Well, I definitely, uh...

Am opposed to her release at any time.

I think it would be a miscarriage of justice

for the ones that, uh...

Were taken for her to be released to have a good life

from now on.

But you don't forget, not even a little bit.

[Crawford vo] There's so much pain.

The trauma that the entire state experienced.

When I advocated for her parole, I even received some letters

that were saying "how dare you?"

She was, you know, a mass killer or a murderer and "how would you

like it if your family would have been part of it?"

So it was a very chaotic day.

The parole board hearing was held onsite.

[Shutter clicks]

The media, I mean, it was just.

You know, all over the place.

[Beermann vo] The room was full of cameras and microphones.

In fact, there were so many microphones and things on our

desk, we hardly had room for our materials.

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our law and the constitution created a parole board for a

purpose: We determine whether or not this person is worthy of

forgiveness in some caliber.

[Robert Jensen sr] I don't think there is any doubt about

her guilt.

In fact, I think probably she was the instigator of most

of this.

[Man] That just about says it all, doesn't it?

It does, as far as I'm concerned.

[Beermann vo] We try not to second-guess the jury.

They had the benefit of her testifying...

Him testifying, they had the case files,

the evidence.

But our feelings affect our decisions,

and if the witnesses and the testifier has made a good case,

it can convince us.

[Crawford vo] During her hearing,

the parole board asked, "mrs Crawford,

is there something you'd like to add?"

And I said, "society has gotten their pound of flesh."

It was like, "how dare she say that?"

I probably misspoke, I probably should have softened it a little

bit, but they wanted her to admit that she was guilty,

and she says, "I am not going to do that."

That she had something to do with... she planned,

schemed, or whatever with him, because she says,

"you have to be there to understand how I was traumatized

and what I witnessed."

She said, "I don't ever want anyone to ever believe that I

was an accomplice with him."

Do you have anything that you'd like to say?

I feel sorry for the people who,

for 18 years, have hated me so bad that it has destroyed

their life.

It's destroyed their life, and it's made their life more of a

prison than mine has been.

And I feel that in a way, prison is not four walls,

you know, it's what's inside of you.

[Crawford vo] I was worried about it because

of the notoriety...

Because of the media and... Some of this was politicized,

and you either get paroled or you don't.

But young women who were not paroled,

sometimes they would regress.

And with caril, having gone through the trauma

that she did...

I was worried about suicide.

But there is a god... Let's put it that way.

[Man] By a majority vote...

You are to be paroled through the former aide program.

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[Crawford vo] She was stunned.

Flashing lights and cameras and and everything...

It was horrific, it really was.

[Male reporter] Caril Ann fugate has passed through those

gates many times before on work release and other

community projects.

But it'll be much different when she leaves June 20th.

That's when she begins her parole,

when she will ask society to, in her words,

"accept me for what I am, not by what you have heard.

You know, you're a bundle of nerves 'cause you do not want

the media following her because it will ruin her chance

of having a normal life.

So we were somewhat secretive and maybe a little bit

deceiving.

Very late at night, [chuckling] We put caril in the trunk of the

car and drove out, you know, just like we were going home or

something...

So that we could get her on an airplane to Michigan.

There was other staff there and everyone wished her the best.

I gave her a big hug, and I told her,

I says, "you know, we're here for you.

Don't let us down."

She says, "i promise you, I won't."

[Caril vo] I'd like to just settle down,

get married, have a couple of kids,

you know, dust the house, clean the toilets, you know...

Just an ordinary duppy housewife.

The Nebraska parole board today wrote a new chapter in one of

the most violent crimes stories in this country's history.

Under the terms of her parole, she'll be able to start a new

life in Clinton county, Michigan.

Eric burns has that report.

So far, only a few people in Clinton county know where caril

fugate will live, where she will work,

or if she's even here yet.

Soon, everyone will know.

We now have that report about caril Ann fugate.

Miss fugate and Charles starkweather were convicted of a

series of brutal murders some years ago.

The two of them went on a killing spree in Nebraska and

Wyoming.

[Man vo] Miss fugate has always said she's innocent.

With us live at our Lincoln bureau is Eugene masters,

the assistant chief of police in Lincoln at the time of the

starkweather killing spree.

And you're still convinced, then,

that she went as a willing accomplice?

I know that she did.

We'd have been tickled to death to give her a lie detector test.

[Ward vo] Caril thought she was done with the past.

But the past was not done with her.

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