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Caril Ann Fugate

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The Resume

    (July 31, 1943- )
    Inspiration for the films 'Badlands,' 'Wild At Heart,' 'True Romance,' 'Kalifornia' and 'Natural Born Killers'
    Teen-age Girlfriend/Accomplice of Nebraska mass murderer Charles Starkweather

Why she might be annoying:

    At the age of fourteen, she accompanied Starkweather while he committed ten of his eleven murders in 1958.
    She was a wild child who lost her virginity to Starkweather when she was thirteen.
    She and Starkweather lived in her house for a week while her mother, stepfather and baby sister's corpses were shoved in sheds behind the house.
    She is thought to have committed at least one of the murders, and Starkweather's testimony hinted to that fact.
    She had ample opportunity to escape but did not do so.
    Today she refuses to discuss the murder spree unless she is paid for the trouble.
    She claimed that she did not know her family had been murdered by Starkweather, despite the fact that she had newspaper clippings on her about their deaths.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She claimed that she tried to break up with Starkweather prior to the murders, and was afraid of what he would do to her.
    It is possible that Starkweather lied on the stand to get revenge after Caril Ann testified against him.
    A 1973 NBC news special on her life in prison put her in a very positive light.
    She was a model prisoner, and was paroled in 1977.
    She is now a nurses aide and living under a different name in Michigan.
    Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' album was inspired in part by Caril Ann and Starkweather.

Credit: Gregg Moeller


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 182 Votes: 67.03% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 24 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 174 Votes: 43.68% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 460 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 32 Votes: 59.38% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 29 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 69 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 71 Votes: 64.79% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 25 Votes: 72.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 76.19% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 59 Votes: 67.80% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 59 Votes: 71.19% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 57 Votes: 77.19% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 143 Votes: 78.32% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 356 Votes: 73.88% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 391 Votes: 68.54% Annoying