Judith A. Yates is an award-winning true crime author and criminologist with over 30 years experience in law enforcement and education. She is the creator of Best True Crime video series and is the editor of True Crime Case Files magazine. She lives in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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