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History Unplugged Podcast

The Jazz Age Tale of America’s First Gangster Couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Before Bonnie and Clyde, there was another criminal couple capturing America’s attention. Baltimore sweethearts, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, made tabloids across the country as Tiger Girl and The Candy Kid during the 1920s for stealing millions...

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:22.0

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0:26.5

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0:30.4

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0:40.7

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0:46.6

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0:48.4

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0:55.9

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1:06.8

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

1:11.6

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

1:16.4

and Plug podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories

1:22.7

that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:39.4

When you think about a criminal couple during the roaring 20s of the Great Depression,

1:42.9

you imagine the chick flapper holding a tiny gun at one hand and a cigarette holder in the other,

1:47.4

and she's standing to the right of her husband who's wearing a pinstripe zoo-toop.

1:50.6

The most famous archetype of this couple is Bonnie and Clyde, but before them,

1:54.4

there was another criminal couple that actually created this image and captured America's attention.

1:59.6

They were Margaret and Richard Whitmore, and in me tabloids across the country as Tiger Girl

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