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Book Synopsis Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers literally robbing for Pampers are narrated as part of the social history of women in America.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction. "This will all blow up"
Part I. It Begins
1. A Centralized Bank: The Eagle, Not the Turkey
2. Setting the Precedent: Yellow Fever and the First U.S. Bank Robbery
3. Cora Hubbard: The First Lady of Bank Robbery
Part II. The "Wild Bunch" in Skirts
4. Queens of the Wild Frontier
5. Etta/Ethel Place: The Sundance Kid's Second Partner in Crime
6. Laura Bullion: The Thorny Rose
Part III. The Legends
7. J. Edgar Creates Monsters: Why the 20s Roared
8. Bonnie Parker: The Bank Robber's Darling
9. "Ma" Barker: J. Edgar's Gal
10. Estella Dickson: "(Not So) Sure Shot Stella"
Part IV. Rosie the Riveter Robs a Bank
11. World War II, a Turning Point: Gun Girls, Child Brides, and Show Girls
12. Opal Dixon: The Brunette with a Syringe
13. Esther and Patsy Whiting: The Family That Robs Together
14. Dorothy Mary Platt: Despondent Gun-Girl
15. Wanda DiCenzi and Rose O'Donnell: First to Be Caught on Camera
16. Carolyn Sue McQueen: There Goes the Honeymoon
17. Linda Marsh: There Goes Christmas
Part V. "Power to the People!"
18. Undercover: "Someone willing to take action"
19. Susan Saxe and Katherine Ann Power: Radicals
20. The Symbionese Liberation Army: Stealing Patty
21. The New World Liberation Front: "Expect the Unexpected"
22. Sara Jane Olson: AKA Kathy Soliah's "Witch Hunt"
Part VI. What Little Girls Aren't Made
23. Mean Little Girls: Or Mean Little Brains?
24. Chelsea and Elysia Wortman: Twin Twin Robberies Robberies
25. Moxham, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; The Youngest Female Robber Caught
26. Symmes Township, Cincinnati, Ohio: The Youngest Female Robber at Large
27. Oakley, Ohio: "She skipped school to rob a bank"
28. Fall River, Massachusetts: Down the Street from Lizzie
29. Urbana, Illinois: Jumping Off the Bridge
Part VII. Diapers and Electric Bills
30. Stealing to Buy Necessities: "Literally Robbing for Pampers"
31. Naomi Betts: A Lot of Time, Money, and Attention
32. Ashley Carrington: "Used It to Pay Bills"
Part VIII. A Cane in One Hand, a Gun in the Other
33. The Granny Bandits: Truth About the "Golden" Years
34. Rowena Leonard: No Capone and No Irish Terrorist
35. Gail Cooke: (We Think That's Her Name)
36. Josephine Sari: The "Hooded Bank Robbing Granny"
37. Gail Simpson: Big Pun's Little Mama
38. Emily Coakley: Oldest Female Robber on Record
Part IX. Who Needs Television When We Have Reality?
39. Voyeurs: America's Obsession with Fake Reality
40. Betty Oldham: LSD and Bank Robbery
41. Carolyn Sue Turner: "What I Did on Summer Vacation"
42. Hannah Sabata: YouTube's "Chick Bank Robber"
43. Heather "Charli" Johnston and Ashley "Adrienne" Miller: Barbie's Bank Heist Adventure
44. Wanda Irvin: The One-Armed Bandit
45. The Starlet Bandit(s): A New Kinda Hustle
Part X. What the G-Men Know
46. The Current Statistics: Who's Robbing the Banks?
47. "Don't Pull from the Clip/No Dye Packs"
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
