Crime-Fighting Broad 006: Jessie Levy, Defense Lawyer for the Dillinger Gang

Criminal Broads

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Defending murderers and professional jail-breakers isn't for the faint of heart, but thankfully, 1930s defense lawyer Jessie Levy was anything but fainthearted. In a world where women were almost never seen in criminal defense, Jessie and her fabulous shoes stepped up to the plate to represent some of the most notorious gangsters of the day: John Dillinger's men. Denise M. Testa, author of Defending the Dillinger Gang: Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins in the Courtroom, comes on the podcast to walk us through the story. *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter. Purchase THE SCORPION'S TALE from this episode’s sponsor, Amazon Publishing. And you can preorder my new book Confident Women here, and listen to Red Flags (my latest podcast project) here.*** Sources: Interview with Denise M. Testa, 16 Jan 2021 Defending the Dillinger Gang: Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins in the Courtroom, by Denise M, Testa Music: Intro and conclusion: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer Ad break: “The Great One Step” by Victor Dance Orchestra, via Free Music Archive, licensed under Public Domain Mark 1.0 Narration music: Stereodog Productions (Dan Pierson & Peter Manheim) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do?
0:10.0	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty guilty of love in you.
0:21.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Criminal Bros, a true crime in history podcast about
0:26.0	wild women on the wrong side of the law, wild women on the right side of the law, and wild women
0:31.8	on the right side of the law defending people on the wrong side of the law.
0:35.3	Are you with me?
0:37.6	Before we get into today's very rollicking episode, I wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you for your incredibly gracious response to last
0:47.2	week's episode, the story of Lisa Montgomery, which I know was so difficult, and I was so nervous to put it out I was much more
0:55.3	nervous than I even said in that episode and you all were amazing I already knew I had the smartest and most empathetic
1:04.8	listeners in the true-crime podcast space, don't tell anyone else, but your
1:10.2	responses were so kind and I feel like you all just really took the episode in the
1:16.8	spirit with which was intended, is that the right phrase, and you just like got it and
1:22.0	you listened so graciously and even if you didn't
1:25.1	necessarily agree with me on everything you said so so politely so I feel
1:29.2	lucky I feel relieved I feel yeah I just wanted to say thank you and you know a case that is that
1:37.8	graphic and horrible you know that's the exception rather than the rule around here I'm not
1:42.1	going to walk you through details like that
1:44.1	unless I really think it's necessary to this story.
1:46.6	So you can rest easy.
1:49.0	We're going back to some lighter subjects,
1:52.0	including today's episode, which is said in the. some lighter
1:53.4	some lighter subjects including today's episode, which is said in the 1930s
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