194: Prohibition's Gangster Couple "Tiger Girl" & "The Candy Kid" w/ Glenn Stout - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Almost a decade before Bonnie and Clyde blasted their way into our collective public consciousness, Richard and Margaret Whittemore, aka "The Candy Kid" and "Tiger Girl" made national news, not only for their participation in deadly robberies in 1920s New York, but also for their romantic love story, played out through newspaper articles and photographs across America.

My guest is prolific author Glenn Stout, author of "Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple". He spent fifteen years researching and writing this epic tale about the most infamous gangster duo you've likely never heard of.

More information can be found at his website: https://glennstout.com/

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Most Notorious Podcast, a couple of 1920s kids fall in love and become
0:07.1	one of the most infamous criminal couples in American history. Richard and Margaret Whittamore,
0:12.9	aka the Candy Kid and Tiger Girl. Bonnie and Clyde are the comparison, but what I point out is I think
0:21.8	Tiger Girl and Candy Kid were better looking, smarter and far more successful. I don't think Bonnie
0:27.8	and Clyde took in more than about $18 or $1900 in any crime they committed. Tiger Girl and Candy
0:34.4	Kid took in a million dollars, mostly in precious gems and diamonds.
1:05.2	Hello all and welcome to another episode of the Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes
1:09.6	and I appreciate you so much for listening. It is with great pleasure that I introduce my guest
1:15.8	today, Glenn Stout. He worked as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, began freelance writing in
1:23.9	1986 and became a full-time writer in 1993. He was the only series editor of Best American Sports
1:31.1	Writing over its 30-year existence. He is the author, editor or ghost writer of 100 books. His
1:38.8	titles include Young Woman in the Sea, How Gertrude, Eterly, Concord the English Channel,
1:45.1	and Changed the World, which is now in development as a film for Disney+. And he is the author of
1:52.8	Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, America's original gangster couple, which he is here to talk about today.
2:01.2	So great to have you here. Thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate you having me on here with
2:06.8	a chance to talk to your listeners about a book that I loved writing. Yeah and I really enjoyed reading
2:13.5	it. So how did you first hear about these two characters and when did you decide that they deserve
2:21.2	their own book where you could tell their stories in depth? Sure. I stumbled across them
2:29.1	probably 2006 while I was writing Young Woman in the Sea, which much of which takes place in 1925
2:36.0	and 1926. And while I was researching that book, I kept on encountering headlines about Tiger Girl
2:43.5	and the Candy Kid. And I became intrigued initially just by their nicknames. I mean, who are
2:49.9	these people? But I actually started reading some of the stories and realized that they were not
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