Queen of Burglars: Sophie Lyons

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Nobody conquered crime quite like Sophie Lyons, who grew from a childhood pickpocket to a career criminal with a talent for disguises, netting husbands, and talking her way out of sticky situations. Author Shayne Davidson comes on the podcast to tell me Sophie’s story from her book Queen of the Burglars: The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons. *** Find more of Shayne’s work (lots of fabulous vintage mugshots!) at capturedandexposed.com Support the podcast by supporting this episode’s sponsor: Try affordable online counseling (and get 10% off!) by going to betterhelp.com/criminalbroads Or check out: patreon.com/criminalbroads *** Follow on Instagram: Instagram.com/criminalbroads Find sources here: criminalbroads.com/sources/episode50 Music: Stereodog Productions (Dan Pierson & Peter Manheim). Intro and conclusion: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer. 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. Guilty of love and you.
0:20.0	Hello there, my friends, and welcome to another episode of Criminal Broads.
0:24.0	The True Crime and History podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law
0:29.0	that you know and love, unless you're new here, in which case, welcome.
0:33.0	Today we have our monthly interview episode where Tori takes off her gold research bangles from each wrist,
0:42.0	sits down in a comfy chair, pours herself a steaming mug of coffee,
0:47.0	and lets someone else tell her about a criminal broad from the past.
0:52.0	So today we're going to hear the story of Sophie Lyons,
0:56.0	who you maybe haven't heard of, but it's crazy that you haven't heard of her,
1:01.0	because she was such a famous female criminal in her day.
1:05.0	And we're going to hear from Shane Davidson, who is the author of Sophie Lyons' biography.
1:10.0	It's called Queen of the Burglers, the scandalous life of Sophie Lyons.
1:15.0	But before we get into the story of Sophie, couple of things.
1:20.0	Thank you for responding to last week's episodes.
1:23.0	So last week we heard about the mystery of Dorothy Arnold, who vanished in 1910,
1:28.0	and nobody ever found out what happened to her.
1:32.0	A lot of you agree with me that the family was sketchy and probably had something to do with it.
1:36.0	I don't know if that's because my episode was completely biased towards that theory,
1:40.0	but a lot of you seem to have the same suspicions that I do.
1:46.0	And I also want to point out, listen to her on Instagram,
1:50.0	message me a very ingenious reason for the sketchiness in Mr. Arnold's will.
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