Definition of ANIMATRONIC. : of, relating to, or being a puppet or similar figure that is animated by means of electromechanical devices. â anÂ·iÂ·maÂ·tronÂ·iÂ·calÂ·ly \-ni-k(É-)lÄ\ adverb.
Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the story that inspired the Movie Badlands: Directed by Terrence Malick. Badlands was loosely based on a series of murders by two young Americans. Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate killed Caril's family and a number of other people who had the misfortune to get in their way. While the movie is in no way a documentary, many of the details are taken directly from the true story.
Badlands murderess who went on killing spree 55 years ago is critically injured in car crash that left her husband dead. 1  Caril Ann Clair, 70, of Stryker, Ohio, was critically hurt and her 81-year-old husband killed late Monday in a crash in Michigan. As a 14-year-old, Clair, who was then Fugate, and her boyfriend, Charlie Starkweather, 19, went on a killing spree in Nebraska and Wyoming. The couple's rampage, which left 11 people dead, was made into the film 'Badlands' starring Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen.