Juvenile for Life: Sharon Wiggins

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Sharon Wiggins killed a man in a bank robbery gone wrong when she was seventeen. Her state locked her up for life, no chance of parole. Then the Supreme Court stepped in, and Sharon started dreaming. This is the story of a woman with a dubious superlative: the longest-serving juvenile lifer in the world. __ Subscribe to my newsletter: tinyletter.com/toridotgov Support the podcast by supporting its sponsors! Go to dameproducts.com/criminalbroads for 15% off sitewide. Or become a patron at patreon.com/criminalbroads. Follow on Instagram: Instagram.com/criminalbroads Find sources here: criminalbroads.com/sources/episode70 Music: Matthew Noble and Stereodog Productions (Dan Pierson & Peter Manheim). 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? Is it a crime? Love and you do like I do.
0:10.0	If it's a crime then I'm guilty.
0:15.0	Guilty of love and you.
0:20.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode 7070 of Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.
0:29.0	I'm your host Tori Telfer, author of Lady Killers and Confident Women.
0:35.0	And thank you all so much for listening to last week's Mary Vincent episode and joining me in cheering for Mary Vincent and also our other loathing for Larry Singleton.
0:46.0	Guys I was thinking about it and I was thinking like who are the criminal broads top five most loathsome individuals.
0:55.0	I really feel like we need to compile a list. A greatest aka worst hits list.
1:01.0	The ones that come to mind but you know I can only remember the past couple episodes or so I just can't hold it all in my brain or Pam Hup.
1:08.0	Remember her, the one who killed her friend Betsy and then was like the husband did it.
1:16.0	I really don't think we like Grace Fortescue from the Massey affair episode, the mother from hell.
1:23.0	Larry Singleton of course makes these ladies look like angels.
1:27.0	They should join the canon of saints compared to how horrible he is.
1:31.0	But surely we've covered some other terrible people in this podcast right.
1:35.0	I mean I know we've covered a whole range of people some we love some were sympathetic to some we feel conflicted about.
1:40.0	But who are the ones who we just are like no cancel them now.
1:45.0	Email me criminal broads at gmail.com and tell me who you want to nominate for this list this list of infamy.
1:52.0	All right today we actually kind of don't have an antagonist in this episode except for the state of Pennsylvania.
2:00.0	Now listeners from Pennsylvania before you scream at me I am one of you I used to live in Philadelphia.
2:06.0	Okay so don't yell at me I've been there.
2:11.0	But the state of Pennsylvania has some issues when it comes to the criminal justice system that are illuminated by this episode.
2:19.0	We're going to talk about the story of Sharon Wiggins nicknamed peachy who has what I call the episode a dubious superlative which you'll hear later.
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