Table of Contents
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
