227: "Queen of the Con" Cassie Chadwick w/ Thomas Crowl - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Bigley - better known as Cassie Chadwick - might be the most successful confidence artist in American history that you've never heard of. She swindled her way across the eastern United States during the height of the Gilded Age, committing fraud at every opportunity. In her greatest con, she posed as the illegitimate daughter of robber baron and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, bilking banks for millions of dollars in the process.

My guest is Thomas Crowl, and in his book "Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter" he tells the fascinating story of the sensational rise and fall of the incorrigible Cassie Chadwick.

More information about the book can be found here: https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2021/queen-of-the-con/

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1:01.8	On this episode of most notorious, perhaps the greatest American imposter you've never
1:07.4	heard of, the woman best known as Cassie Chadwick.
1:13.8	So Carnegie was certainly an audacious choice if you're going to conduct a con.
1:22.8	You got to give Cassie Chadwick credit for aiming high because it was either going to
1:28.5	be Andrew Carnegie or it was going to be John D. Rockefeller.
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