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.

Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

And welcome to the second episode of Sister Mond. It's Sister Mond. It's Sister Mond.

If anyone wants to quickly compose a theme song for Sister Mond, let me know and I'll play it in the next episode.

So last week, we met the pop-haun sisters, the gruesome maids of 1930s, France, who brutally, and I cannot emphasize that word enough,

brutally murdered their mistresses. We're talking eyeballs being removed by human fingers, type of murders.

And then they became kind of like symbols of a class revolution, even though they themselves didn't really use that rhetoric.

And then they were separated in prison. And the one who was the more dominant one, kind of completely deteriorated and died young.

And the other one lived until this, this millennium, 2000, the 2000s.

Today we're going to change tactics. And we're going to talk not about two sisters, but about four sisters.

Hashtag never enough sisters who have become national heroes instead of sort of national symbols of gruesome violence like the papal sisters.

That being said, it took decades for these sisters to get the recognition they deserve. So don't think it's easy, because it's not.

Thank you to the listener who suggested this case and whose name I cannot find despite frantically searching through my email, my Instagram messages.

Listener, if you remember who you are, please send me a note. And I'll thank you officially in the next episode.

Sorry that this keeps happening guys. Just like a little interesting perspective giving fact.

So right around the time when these today's sisters, the mirrorball sisters, right around the time when they were all being born is when the papal sisters were committing their crimes in France.

So that's where we are. Of course, we're an ocean apart. We were in France last week. We're going to be in the Dominican Republic this week.

We're going to spend most of our time in the 1950s, early 60s. We're going to get a mini crash course in Dominican Republic history that I hope I do justice with, but I'm only scratching the surface here.

And so without further ado, let's go. Let's meet our main characters.

Let's start with the dictator. His name was Rafael Trujillo. He joined the army of the Dominican Republic as a young man and he trained with the US Marines.

Within 10 years, he was a general and three years later, in 1930, he was the man in charge. He seized power all of it in a military revolt against the president.

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