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| Caril Fugate critically injured in car crash | |
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![]() Wanted: Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, pictured left in 1958, were wanted for questioning in a killing spree that eventually claimed 11 lives in Nebraska and Wyoming ![]() ![]() Critically injured: Caril Clair, pictured left as a teen, and right, in 1993, was taken to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo following Monday night's crash A woman convicted of going on a killing spree with her boyfriend 55 years ago that left 11 people dead and whose story inspired the hit 1973 film 'Badlands' has been badly injured in a car crash in Michigan. Caril Ann Clair, 70, of Stryker, Ohio, is in critical condition after the single-vehicle crash on Monday night that killed her 81-year-old husband, Frederick Clair, on northbound Interstate 69 in Calhoun County. Over a month in late 1957 and 1958, when Clair, then named Fugate, was just 14, she and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Charlie Starkweather, terrorized Nebraska and Wyoming, killing Fugate's mother, stepfather, two-year-old sister and eight others. Fugate, who has maintained her innocence, was convicted and spent 18 years in prison before her release in 1976. Starkweather was executed in 1958. After leaving prison in 1976, Fugate went to live in Michigan with a family who befriended her after watching a television documentary, according to The Battle Creek Enquirer. She worked in a hospital in Lansing for 20 years, before marrying Clair at age 63. She has been living in Ohio. According to Cleveland attorney Linda Battisti, Fugate met her husband at a casino while she was working in Lansing. The couple may have been traveling to the FireKeepers Casino near Battle Creek when they crashed, sheriff deputies said. Clair was retired and at one point owned a grocery store and ran a radio station. Battisti told the Battle Creek Enquirer that she has known Caril Clair for years and called her 'resilient, courageous and a brave woman. I have always said I have been humbled in her presence. She is incredibly funny and very loving and very giving.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386213/Caril-Ann-Fugate-Badlands-murderess-critically-injured-car-crash-left-husband-dead.html#ixzz2bKePn0Vi Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook |
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