In 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather gained notoriety as one of the nation\'s first spree killers.
He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska..
John Stevens Berry is a trial lawyer who also conducts seminars and has been invited to the Judge Advocate General\'s Legal Center and School to lecture.
She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Battisti is a trial lawyer in the office of the United States Trustee Program of the Department of Justice in Ohio.
The True Story of How a Fourteen-Year-Old Nebraska Girl Was Denied Justice in a Murder Case that Stunned the Nation About the Author Linda M.
It is a shocking story that has never been told.
The authors also expose how Starkweather was coached for days by prosecutors on how to testify at Fugate\'s trial-including not telling the jury that he had planned to kill Caril on three separate occasions.
The book details how Starkweather, who gave nine versions of how the murders occurred and had already been sentenced to death, became the chief witness against Caril at her trial.
Their book tells how the teenager was grilled by prosecuting attorneys for hours before ever being told she had a right to an attorney. pull together years of research to tell how Fugate was a victim of both Charles Starkweather and the Nebraska justice system.
Berry, Sr.
Battisti and John S.
Now, in The Twelfth Victim, attorneys Linda M.
She was sentenced to life in prison; however, in 1976 she was paroled.
A jury found her guilty of being an accessory to first degree murder.
Unbeknownst to her, he had already murdered her family.
Fugate claims she was too terrified to attempt escape-Starkweather had told her he would make a phone call and have her family killed if she disobeyed him.
Was she his hostage or a willing participant in the murders that included her parents and three-year-old sister? This question still stirs debate more than fifty years later.
Starkweather\'s girlfriend, Caril Fugate, fourteen, was with him throughout the Murder spree.
After a week on the run, he was arrested, later convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
He murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming.
In 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather gained notoriety as one of the nation\'s first spree killers
