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.
Notorious 1600s English criminal
In the late 1800s, Belle Starr was known as a notorious outlaw in America’s “Old West.”
Prohibition speakeasy owner
“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
1920s Italian-Canadian convicted murderer
Polish-Canadian organized crime boss
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
1700s Canadian woman executed for killing her husband