Crime-Fighting Broad 003: Isabella Goodwin, Detective

Criminal Broads

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The story behind New York’s first-ever female detective! In 1896, Isabella Goodwin was a quiet, hard-working police matron who wrangled murderesses, made up the prison beds, and earned about half of what her male coworkers did. As far as she knew, she’d be a police matron forever…until one day, a gruff captain called her over to his desk and asked if she’d like to take a crack at going undercover. (Become a Patreon supporter for rewards and bonus content!) Sources: The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin: How New York's First Female Police Detective Cracked the Crime of the Century, by Elizabeth Mitchell“Robbers Hold Up Bank Messengers in Taxi; Steal $25,000 and Escape in an Auto,” Brooklyn Times Union, 15 Feb 1912“The First Municipal Woman Detective in the World,” The New York Times, 3 March 1912“Mrs. Isabella Goodwin is a Sherlock Holmes in Skirts,” Daily Long Island Democrat, 26 March 1912“Who Mrs. Isabella Goodwin Really Is,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7 April 1912“Bandits’ Sentences Pile High,” New-York Tribune, 13 April 1912“Woman Detective is Secret Bride,” The Standard Union, 28 Nov 1921“Overlooked No More: Isabella Goodwin, New York City’s First Female Police Detective,” New York Times, 13 March 2019Ticket Scalping: An American History, 1850–2005, by Kerry Segrave (p. 68) 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“La Traviata, Brindisi (Verdi)” by MIT Symphony Orchestra, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License 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.
0:20.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast Criminal Broads a true crime in history
0:25.6	podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law my name is Tori Telfer I'm a true crime
0:31.0	writer my book Lady Killers is about female serial killers and I am
0:33.9	currently working on a book about con women which is the light of my life and the
0:39.0	bane of my existence because it's so much work and I have to email so many lawyers in so many different countries and I don't know what to call them
0:46.6	Solicitor
0:47.1	dear Solicitor Smith, dear lawyer, dear Professor, it's very confusing.
1:05.7	Anyway I Where do your profile? It's very confusing. Anyway, I'm so sorry that this episode is coming to you a little bit late. And thank you to those of you who reached out to see if I was okay. I'm okay. I've just I've been traveling and with my family and my family has been dealing with some things and I
1:11.6	just on Wednesday when this was supposed to come out. I was on an airplane for most of the day.
1:17.0	So I'm so sorry, but here is the story. It's here. It's here now and you can listen to it forever. So I hope you'll forgive me.
1:24.4	Before we get into today's story, which is a crime fighting broad, I just felt like we could use some
1:29.6	positivity this week. I have a couple of items of business to get out of the way. The first one is I would
1:38.6	like to tell you all about a documentary that is coming out but needs your help. Now you probably remember
1:46.4	episode 11 on Pulan Devi I think it was a lot of people's favorite episode
1:51.2	definitely one of my favorite episodes.
1:53.4	Pulon Debbie was a girl from India, from a lower cast, and had a brutal life including multiple instances of gang rape and no one thought she was going to be anything. She was just like a shamed wrecked girl, her village thought. Instead, Pulon became a literal bandit
2:17.2	queen striking fear in the hearts of every man who had ever abused her becoming this total Robin Hood figure, this really inspiring figure in India,
2:28.4	getting chased down by the law, getting captured, imprisoned, going free, becoming a member of Parliament, and then ultimately,
2:37.0	well, spoiler alert, getting murdered at the end of her days by men who were still angry at the violence she had
2:44.1	enacted on their people back in the day when she was revenging herself on the violence they had
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