Making a Murderess: Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan (feat. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi)

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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History remembers them as beautiful booze-hounds. Hollywood turned them into fame-hungry starlets. But who were these murderesses, really? With Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, author of UGLY PREY: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago, we dive into the stories of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, the most infamous lady killers of 1920s Chicago. What did the press get wrong about them? What do we get wrong about them today? WHY WERE THEIR JURIES SO UTTERLY MAD? And honestly, was the whole thing just a gin-soaked joke, or were real crimes committed? Find Emilie on her website and Instagram. Buy her books here. And become a Patreon supporter for rewards and bonus content! Sources: Interview withEmilie Le Beau Lucchesi, 6/14/19UGLY PREY: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago, by Emilie Le Beau LucchesiThe Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago, by Douglas PerryLady Killers, by Tori Telfer Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer“Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License“One Night Alone With You” via archive.orgBrief clips played for educational purposes: “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago and “Hula Lou” by Danny Kaye 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? If it's a crime then I'm guilty
0:10.1	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty, guilty of love in you.
0:21.0	Hello, hello, everyone.
0:23.0	Welcome to episode 28 of Criminal Broads,
0:26.0	the True Crime and History podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.
0:31.0	Today we're delving into my favorite sort of case which is a case
0:35.8	where the players are famous and yet the legend tends to be a little bit
0:41.2	inaccurate. I love this kind of thing. to help me tell you this
0:45.0	to help me tell you this wild story I am bringing on an expert so you are going to hear from
0:52.0	hi my name is Emily Labo Lucchese, PhD, and I am the author of a book called
0:59.0	Ugly Pray, an innocent woman and the death sentence that scandalized jazz age Chicago.
1:04.5	I'm also the author of a second book called This is Really War
1:09.8	the Incredible True Story of a Navy nurse POW in the occupied Philippines.
1:16.0	I met Emily at a conference in Chicago called Murder and Mayhem.
1:22.0	We were on the same panel talking about true called Murder and Mayhem.
1:22.6	We were on the same panel talking about true crime.
1:25.8	We hit it off right away, she is awesome.
1:28.9	We have a similar sense of humor,
1:30.7	as you will probably tell from this episode.
1:33.6	And so after you listen to this episode,
1:35.9	please check out her books.
1:37.1	I'm going to link to them in the show notes
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