“Queenie” - Stephanie St. Clair
Female Criminals25 Sep 2019

“Queenie” - Stephanie St. Clair

In 1911, 13-year-old Stephanie St. Clair left the Caribbean for America and never looked back. The scrappy teen lied about her age, and soon found herself on the streets of Harlem at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance and the Prohibition Era - two moments in history that helped launch her career as the queenpin of a highly lucrative gambling ring. And ultimately, as New York City's first black woman gangster Sponsors! Best Fiends - Download FREE the 5-star rated mobile puzzle game Best Fiends on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Literati Books - Go to LITERATIBOOKS.COM and use promo code CRIMINALS for $20 OFF your FIRST BOX. Plus, kids THREE and up get a special blacklight pen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Salem Witch Trials Pt. 2

Salem Witch Trials Pt. 2

The trials continue: Tituba’s devilish confession sends chills through the town of Salem. And more men and women are tortured, imprisoned and executed as a result of the 1693 proceedings.  Learn more...

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Salem Witch Trials Pt. 1

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Massachusetts 1692-1693: Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne—the three women at the center of the Salem Witch Trials. Discover the three key factors that combined to create their witch hunt, as well ...

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“The Black Widow of England” Pt. 2: Mary Ann Cotton

“The Black Widow of England” Pt. 2: Mary Ann Cotton

With a not-so-promising future in Victorian England, Mary Ann Cotton embarks on a journey of seducing, marrying, and killing her spouses and children to collect her insurance policies. Once she was ca...

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“The Black Widow of England” Pt. 1: Mary Ann Cotton

“The Black Widow of England” Pt. 1: Mary Ann Cotton

A career gold-digger with a penchant for arsenic, and a trail of murders that would make headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Okt 201942min

“Queenie” Pt. 2 - Stephanie St. Clair

“Queenie” Pt. 2 - Stephanie St. Clair

In 1920's New York City, policy bank queen Stephanie St. Clair was sitting on the top of the world. She had become one of the most successful policy bankers in her adopted home of Harlem, and had the ...

2 Okt 201948min

“Revolutionary Assassin” Pt. 2 - Marie Sukloff

“Revolutionary Assassin” Pt. 2 - Marie Sukloff

On Easter Sunday, 1903, Marie Sukloff awoke in her Russian prison cell to the sounds of a massacre. She overheard one of the bloodiest pogroms in Russian history. The bloodshed ignited a fire that Mar...

18 Sep 201956min

“Revolutionary Assassin” - Marie Sukloff

“Revolutionary Assassin” - Marie Sukloff

As the grip of Tsar Nicholas II loosened at the turn of the 20th century and the wave of Communism started to rise in Russia, a young girl named Marie Sukloff dutifully took her place in the revolutio...

11 Sep 201950min

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