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

Um, Sister Month is over. What are we doing with all our free time? Personally, I am gardening. I just put some basil and

parsley on my fire escape along with some mint and a small oregano, a small suffering, struggling

oregano. And I also have a hydroponic garden in my kitchen. So basically, I am Old McDonald,

2021 millennial version. And I have lots of butter lettuce to share. What are you guys up to?

Let me know. Criminal Broads at gmail.com. All right. Today's story is a, oh, shocker, one with lots of twists and turns. I mean, aren't they all? This is one I was very surprised I'd never heard of before, but at the same time, only one person has written about this woman in the past, like, almost 40 years. And really, there's only one

big chunk of information available about this woman in its article in the New York Times.

And I thought to myself, Tori, Tori, Tori, Tori, you could sit here and talk about the article

from the New York Times, or you could ask the author to come on the podcast.

So we're going to hear from Michael Wilson, an amazing New York Times journalist who wrote about this woman.

So today I'm going to introduce you to Blanche Wright, who was framed in the media one way, and the truth, as Michael Wilson reveals, 40 years

later, was quite different. So we're going to be traveling back to New York in the 80s, which

was, as you know, if you've ever seen a single documentary about New York, a very violent time, a very

different time. You know, chaos rained in the streets are so

documentarians like to make you think. And we are certainly going back to a violent subculture in

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