Category Archives: Crime

In the late 1800s, Belle Starr was known as a notorious outlaw in America’s “Old West.”

“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.”

Canadian petty criminal

1700s Canadian woman executed for killing her husband

Cannadian convicted murderer