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Criminal

Mother's Little Helper

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game each time she got out. Prison, she says, is where you move "up the criminal ladder, just like the corporate ladder." Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.0

At Barclays, we know money can be tricky to navigate.

0:33.5

We're here to help you find your way around it.

0:36.5

Like saving for a trip away.

0:38.5

Because when you want a romantic weekend in Rome, you need to take care of the numerals. With Savings Goals in the Barclays

0:44.4

app you can set a target and see your progress so you'll be ordering Gilato before

0:50.0

you know it. Search Savings Goals in the Barclays app.

0:53.0

Barclays, make money work for you.

0:55.0

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0:59.0

Teensies apply, 16 plus.

1:01.0

I couldn't be a criminal now because I'm not that computer savvy. So I'm so glad sometimes I say to people, thank

1:10.0

God I stopped before they got, you know, all this stuff going because why I don't know what I would have done.

1:21.2

This is Sandy Alger she's 71 years old and is a very long rap sheet.

1:25.0

I remember the last time I ever got arrested. I was sitting in the back of the police car and he was asking me questions and he had that little

1:36.6

computer sitting on his dashboard and I was like, oh my God, and my whole life was just coming up on the screen. I mean you can't, before that you could lie and tell them all kinds of stuff. I gave them so many different names over the years and would get away with you. of She was in and out of prison for most of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and while Sandy was locked up,

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