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TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate and her 18-year-old boyfriend killed her parents and strangled her two-year-old sister to death in their Nebraska home — then went on a multi-state rampage in which they murdered 8 people and killed at least 2 dogs with their bare hands

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