Is it a sin? Is it a crime? Love and you do like I do. If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.

Guilty of love and you.

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Criminal Broads, a true crime and history podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

On the right side of the law, women who are law adjacent, let's say, have we covered lady lawyers on this podcast? Yes, we have. Yes, we have several of them. We do it all here.

Today, we're getting into the story of Mary Vincent. Now, if you know that name, you're probably screaming along with me. If you don't know that name, don't worry.

You know, I'm going to hold your hand and walk you through the whole thing. And also you have some really terrifying facts ahead of you. So I'm sorry and advance some really bad things happen in this episode.

So I wanted a story as we near the end of this podcast, I wanted a real raw raw, throw your fists up in the air like, yes, type of story, you know, a real story where there's some triumph where you just want to wildly cheer.

Because it's fun to hear stories like that. Maybe they're not fun all the way through, but it's cathartic to hear stories like that.

And I had heard this story before on a very large podcast, which I will mention later in the episode. And if you know this story, you probably heard it from that podcast too.

But as I started researching, and as I read the many interviews that Mary Vincent has given over the years, I was shocked by the fact that this is not the easy,

inspiring narrative that I had been told it was this story is much messier, much more complicated, much more up and down and one step forward, two steps back.

And I expected it to be, then I would like it to be we're going to get into that tension in this episode. And it's a little bit uncomfortable. I'm going to be honest because well, I don't want to tell you all the things I'm about to tell you in the episode, but it's messy and uncomfortable.

But there still are some moments where you'll throw your fists up in the air. So it's all over the place, just like life. I hope you enjoy it. There are some graphic details in this episode. There are a couple mentions of sexual assault.

And we are headed towards the great state of California in the 1970s, which is a time when you kind of want to believe it's all fun and free. And maybe there's still some hippies hanging around vaguely.

But also there were terrible things happening. And let's go.

Mary Vincent had only been out of the hospital for five months when she was summoned to appear in the courtroom. There was a man in the courtroom and prosecutors wanted her to talk about him.

So Mary showed up her wounds on full display. She told the courtroom everything that she'd suffered, everything that he did to her. She was brave as she talked and her voice was strong, but she couldn't look the man in the eyes.

He was 51. She was 15. When she was finished talking, she got down from the witness stand to leave. She had to walk right past the man as he sat there with his lawyer.

She started walking and the man leaned over to her, got real close to her ear. And in a voice so low that no one else could hear him, he said,

I'll finish this job if it takes me the rest of my life.

Mary Vincent was born in 1963. And by the time her mother was finished having children, Mary would have six siblings. Mary's parents had met in the Philippines.

Her mom was from there and her dad had been stationed there as an airman for the US Air Force. But now the Vincent's lived in America's most notorious city Las Vegas.

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