Is it a skin? A crime? Loving you dear life I do. Is this a swine?

Is this a swine, then I'm guilty, guilty of loving you.

Hello and welcome to Criminal Broads, a true crime and history podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

My name is Torrey Telfer. I am the author of Lady Killers, Deadly Women Throughout History,

which is a book about real life historical female serial killers that you should be able to find at your

friendly local bookstore. Now, the woman I'm here to tell you about today is a

genuine bad ass. She is someone I'm so excited for you to hear about and I know I know I know I say I'm excited about every episode but I really am but this woman is special I think she is the most

Well, she's definitely the most badass one we've covered yet because we've covered a lot of women who are just plain bad.

But she's also, this is also the most intense story I've covered yet. So with that in mind two quick things.

One, unfortunately this episode contains a number of instances of sexual assault

so if that is not something you want to hear or deal with right now, please skip ahead

with my blessing and I'll see you back here in a couple weeks for episode 12, which is going to be a

romp through a world that's very different than this one.

Second of all, one of my primary sources for this episode was our

protagonist's autobiography. Now if you've read, if you've ever read an autobiography you know that they tend to be a little

bit self-myologizing so there are so anyway I try to keep that in mind and also there are places where her autobiography

conflicted with her biography, which conflicted with her like journalistic that is perhaps not the most academic but it was this if there's one thing the world owes

this woman it's to hear her voice to let her speak you'll see what I mean in a minute so

anyway without further ado let's travel to the northern part of India in the 1960s. In 19 In 1979 just outside a rural village in Northern India, police were shocked to find a man lying on the dirt nearly dead who had been beaten viciously.

The man was missing teeth, his arms and legs were broken, but what was most notable was that

his genitals had been crushed.

There was a note left on top of his bleeding body that read,

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