Alexandrina Askew
British-Australian “lady swindler”
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Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
Mary Reibey
At the age of 34, Mary Reibey was a widow with seven children, taking care of farms, ships and a warehouse.
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Cassie L Chadwick
Cleveland’s most famous con artist whose trial drew world-wide attention
Eliza Sheffield
English entrepreneur, socialite and forger
Belle Gunness
Lured by matrimonial ads from Chicago area newspapers to a farm house in rural LaPorte, Indiana, over 40 wealthy suitors meet their ends at the hands of Belle Gunness, one of the century’s “most fiendish” murderesses.
Ann Trow Lohman
1800s British-American abortion provider
Misao Tanigoshi
In 1943, three Japanese American women helped two German prisoners of war escape from a Colorado prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. Prosecuted for treason and convicted of conspiracy to commit treason in federal court in 1944, they served two years in prison.
Tsuroko Wallace
In 1943, three Japanese American women helped two German prisoners of war escape from a Colorado prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. Prosecuted for treason and convicted of conspiracy to commit treason in federal court in 1944, they served two years in prison.