What is Caril Ann Fugate?
'''Caril Ann Fugate''' (born July 30, 1943, [[Nebraska]]) is the youngest female in the [[United States]] to have been tried and [[conviction|convicted]] of first-degree [[murder]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Mass Murderers/Serial Killers|date=25 January 2007|publisher=Ulysses Press|isbn=9781569755785|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sGRFUyJ9LcC&q=youngest+woman+tried+in+US+for+first+degree+murder&pg=PA32|access-date=July 23, 2021}}</ref> She was the teenage girlfriend of Charles Starkweather, a [[serial killer]]. Fugate was age fourteen when Starkweather's conviction happened.<ref>{{cite book|title=Kiss Me and Kill Me|date=December 2004|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=9781416500032|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jtj8_7WxpUkC&pg=PA224|access-date=July 23, 2021}}</ref> She was convicted as his [[accomplice]] and given [[life imprisonment]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Chilling True Story of Charles Starkweather|date=2 March 2021 |publisher=ATI|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-starkweather|access-date=July 23, 2021}}</ref> She was [[parole]]d in 1976. ==Background to the crime spree== Fugate lived in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]] with her mother Velma Bartlett and her stepfather Marion Bartlett. In 1956, at age 13, Fugate got [[interpersonal relationship|romantically involved]] to Charles Raymond Starkweather.<ref>{{cite web|title=Starkweather Case|publisher=Lincoln, Nebraska|url=https://lincolnlibraries.org/reference-services/starkweather|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724095405/https://lincolnlibraries.org/reference-services/starkweather/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The man had [[dropping out|dropped out of high school]]. He was born almost five years before Fugate was. They bet by way of Caril's sister Barbara. The latter was [[dating]] Starkweather's friend Bob von Busch. Starkweather was a truck unloader for the [[Western Union]] [[newspaper]] warehouse. On Sunday, December 1, 1957, Starkweather committed his first murder when attendant