Lawless Women of History
Do you like history? Do you like true crime? Do you like….women??? We thought so. Join us as we dive deep into the most infamous women of history across the globe. Interested yet? Check out Lawless Women of History: Crime has No Gender, why let men have all the fun?Follow us @LawlessTC on Twitter, Lawless Women of History on Facebook, and Lawless.TC on Instagram
Episodes
Season 2, Episode 5:
Shashikala "Baby" Patankar - The Meow Meow Queen
Summary: Here at LWH we love a good rags to riches tale - who doesn’t? Episode 5 follows one such story about Baby Patankar , who went from lowly Milkmaid to the leader of one of Mumbai’s largest drug rings. So, maybe not your typical…or legal, fairy tail, but definitely an interesting one. Join us, as we tell the tale of the notorious Meow...
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Hello Lawless Listeners! Welcome to Framing the Narrative, a Lawless subseries devoted to exploring the historical backdrop for our curvaceous criminals.
This week we’ll be learning about India’s drug trade in the 80’s and 90’s, so throw away your D.A.R.E. shir...
Hello Lawless listeners! We’ve got some changes coming to our program that we’d like to announce, but first we’d like to say THANK YOU – to our families, our friends, and you, our amazing listeners. We truly appreciate every one of you for downloading our releases and sharing our little project with your peers. Your continued interest in our show has kept us going. So thank you for being YOU!
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Framing The Narrative: This week, we’ll explore the surprising origin of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The Scissor Sisters: A Crime of Trauma
Summary: The Republic of Ireland was rocked to the core when two sisters were convicted of the brutal murder and dismemberment of their mother’s boyfriend. Sounds like an open and shut case, right? However, investigators would come to find a tangled web of abuse, fear and trauma – a web so complex that it's hard to determine who the real villain is here. Join me, Annie, along with our spec...
Season 2, Episode 3: Amelia Dyer - The Angel Maker
Summary: “The old baby farm, the wretched Miss Dyer - At the Old Bailey her wages is paid - In times long ago, we’d ‘a’made a big fire - And roasted so nicely that wicked old jade.” That is a popular song from Victorian England about one of their most prolific serial killers, and this episode of Lawless Women of History’s leading lady, Amelia Dyer. A murderer responsible for what s...
Season 2 Episode 2: Leonarda Cianciulli - DIY Sacrifice
Summary: In the age of COVID many people have found ways to keep themselves occupied, including new hobbies. In this episode of Lawless, our DIY Queen enjoyed making artisan soap during WWII…using human remains. So let’s delve right into Leonarda Cianciulli, The Soap-Maker of Correggio.
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Season 2 Episode 1: Casey Anthony - Blame it on the Zanny
Summary: Caylee Marie Anthony. The name immediately brings to mind an image of a happy two year old baby who’s untimely death took the United States by storm. If you were born in the 1900s you have probably heard of the opening act of season 2 of Lawless Women of History. That’s right, today we are covering the tale of the so-called most hated woman in America, Casey Anthony...
Season 1, Episode 13: Mary Kay Letourneau - Only One Crime, Love
Summary: Love. It’s a powerful emotion that can cause those under its spell to do things that they normally wouldn’t do. But, how far is too far? In episode 13 of Lawless we discuss one of the most sensational cases of the 90s, the case of Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who’s love for her student turned from gentle guidance to flirtation to sexual abuse.
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Season 1, Episode 12: Guilty by Association
Summary: They say that legends never die, but what happens when the stories that fuel the myth are speculative at best? For Episode 12 of Lawless, we venture back in time to the Wild West, exploring the legendary mythos of Belle Starr, the “Bandit Queen.” While this woman did live a life of questionable morals, how much of her story is truth and how much is folk tale?
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Mata Hari Episode 11:
Summary: Episode 11 of Lawless focuses on a new kind of criminal - spies! Be honest, the first thing that comes to mind with the word spy is a savvy James Bond type, right? So what does a Dutch exotic dancer have to do with WWI intelligence? Well, let us tell you! Without further ado, the story of the original femme fatal, Mata Hari.
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Season 1, Episode 10.5: North Berwick Witch Trials
Summary: This special Halloween episode of Lawless explores what ensued during one of the earliest and most influential witch trials in Scotland, the North Berwick Witch Trials.
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Season 1, Episode 10: Point Blank Prostitute
Summary: Welcome to episode 10 of Lawless where crime knows no gender. Today Alisha and I will be covering one of the most well-known female criminals in modern history, Aileen Wuornos.
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Season 1, Episode 9: The Giggling Granny
Summary: Long before the internet and online dating became the best way to meet people, a person could look for love in the newspaper. Lonely Hearts ads were the Tinder of the 20th century - just place an ad and wait for the letters to come pouring in! Episode 9 of Lawless explores the case of The Jolly Black Widow, The Lonely Hearts Killer, Arsenic Annie, The Giggling Granny, Nannie Doss
Bonus Ep - The Road So Far...
Summary: Just a little Q&A bonus episode with the whole Lawless team!
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Season 1, Episode 8: Cannibal Cultists
Summary: Our curvaceous criminals have us traveling to the Czech Republic cira 2006 to dissect an infuriating case including cults, cages, and cannibalism.
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Season 1, Episode 7, Postpartum Killer
Summary: It's not everyday that you hear about a mother who kills her own children. A mother is supposed to protect and cherish her children, at all costs. What would drive a mother to do something so horrendous?
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Season 1, Episode 6 - Evil Born
Summary: Children say and do the darndest things, don’t they? Imagine, a summer of inexplicable evil-- two children, toddlers, murdered in cold blood. Cause of death: strangulation. In Episode 6 we are going to pick apart the schoolgirl strangler named Mary Bell.
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Season 1 Episode 5 - Madame Queen
Summary: Picture, if you will, a black woman dressed to the nines walking around 1920s Harlem as if she owns the place. She is living among the likes of W.E.B. De Bois during the Harlem Renaissance. Now imagine this woman lives a dual life - one of both righteous activism and illegal gambling - and doesn’t even attempt to hide it. That is Stephanie St. Clair, Madame Queen of Policy, our episode 5 c...
Season 1, Episode 4 - The Death Shift
Summary: What if you found out one of your nurses could have been murdering children? What would you do? Episode 4’s lady of mayhem centers around Ms. Genene Jones, the nurse who ran “The Death Shift.”
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