Desperate Bride: Toni Jo Henry
Criminal Broads
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Life was hard for Toni Jo Henry in 1940s Louisiana. She was in the forced-to-grow-up-too-fast, creepy-men-all-around, dead mom, and alcoholic father club. So when she finally met a man who loved her for who she was, she was all in. But then her new husband was thrown behind bars, and Toni Jo decided that she needed to get him money for an appeal, and to get money she needed to rob a bank, and to rob a bank she needed to hijack a car…and suddenly she was on the long, dank rode to the electric chair.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:11.5 | Diversion audio. |
| 0:15.5 | Is it a sin? |
| 0:18.7 | Is it a crime? |
| 0:29.8 | Loving you dear like I do. If it's a crime, then I'm guilty. |
| 0:42.0 | Guilty of loving you. Hello there and welcome to Criminal Broads, the true crime and history podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm your host, Tori Telfer, and I'm here. |
| 0:47.0 | I've got my coffee. |
| 0:47.8 | I'm looking out the window. |
| 0:48.6 | Do you remember that tree I told you about that was scraping the window with its skeletal |
| 0:52.8 | branches in a very haunting manner, |
| 0:56.3 | today it's blooming. It's full of white flowers. I need to figure out what type of tree it is. |
| 1:02.6 | Now, this is not a metaphor for today's episode, okay? It's not that we've moved from tragedy |
| 1:07.4 | into the spring-like joy of anything. |
| 1:11.3 | Okay. |
| 1:12.0 | In this episode, we're going to the 1940s. |
| 1:14.3 | Some of you might remember a certain little political event that happened in the 1940s. |
| 1:19.2 | That's not very much fun to think back on. |
| 1:21.6 | And we're also going to meet someone who had a very hard life. |
| 1:26.4 | But it's morning, and I've got my my coffee and it is spring here in real life. |
| 1:31.3 | So there is some joy in that. |
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