Frances Williams
British woman transported to Australia as a convict
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Clementine Barnabet
In April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering four families in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. Her confession, however, did not align with the timeline of crimes that had gripped America’s rice belt region with fear.
Moll Cutpurse
Notorious 1600s English criminal
Belle Starr
In the late 1800s, Belle Starr was known as a notorious outlaw in America’s “Old West.”
Belle Livingstone
Prohibition speakeasy owner
Minnie Davis
“In 1914, my grandmother, Minnie, became a single mother. She tried to convince the nurses at the Women’s Homeopathic Hospital, in Philadelphia, that she was a married woman, but they weren’t buying it. They checked the “illegitimate” box on my dad’s birth certificate. Soon after, Minnie fell into crime with the Mob in Chicago.”
Lizzie Lessard
Canadian petty criminal
Angelina Napolitano
1920s Italian-Canadian convicted murderer
Bessie Starkman
Polish-Canadian organized crime boss
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife