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Hello there, my friends, and welcome to another episode of Criminal Broads,

the True Crime and History podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law that you know

and love, unless you're new here, in which case, welcome.

Today we have our monthly interview episode where Tori takes off her gold research bangles

from each wrist, sits down in a comfy chair, pours herself a steaming mug of coffee, and lets

someone else tell her about a criminal broad from the past.

So today, we're going to hear the story of Sophie Lyons, who you maybe haven't heard of, but it's

crazy that you haven't heard of her because she was such a famous female criminal in her day.

And we're going to hear from Shane Davidson, who is the author

of Sophie Lyons' biography. It's called Queen of the Burglars, the Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons.

But before we get into the story of Sophie, a couple of things. Thank you for responding to last

week's episode. So last week we heard about the mystery of Dorothy Arnold, who vanished in 1910 and nobody ever found out what happened to her. A lot of you agree with me that the family was sketchy and probably had something to do with it. I don't know if that's because my episode was completely biased towards that theory, but a lot of you seem to have the same suspicions that I do. And I also want to

point out, listener on Instagram messaged me a very ingenious reason for the sketchiness in

Mr. Arnold's will. This listener was saying that maybe the reason he called Dorothy out in his will as dead

was for legal reasons so that no imposter could show up and be like,

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