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Criminal Broads

The Mirabal Sisters

Criminal Broads

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the midcentury Dominican Republic, three sisters face off against notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed human.

0:04.7

Is it a sin?

0:07.2

Is it a crime?

0:09.7

Loving you, dear, like I do.

0:14.5

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.

0:19.5

Guilty of loving you.

0:23.6

Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong

0:30.6

side of the law. And welcome to the second episode of Sister Month. It's Sister Month. If anyone wants to quickly compose the theme

0:39.8

song for Sister Month, let me know and I'll play it in the next episode. So last week we met the

0:45.1

Paupin sisters, the gruesome maids of 1930s France, who brutally, and I cannot emphasize that

0:53.2

word enough, brutally murdered their mistresses.

0:58.9

We're talking eyeballs being removed by human fingers type murders.

1:04.0

And then they became kind of like symbols of a class revolution, even though they themselves

1:09.0

didn't really use that rhetoric and then they were

1:14.0

separated in prison and the one who was the more dominant one kind of completely

1:19.5

deteriorated and died young and the other one lived until the this this millennium

1:25.2

2000 the 2000s today we're going change tactics, and we're going to talk

1:31.8

not about two sisters, but about four sisters, hashtag never enough sisters, who have become

1:38.2

national heroes instead of sort of national symbols of gruesome violence like the Papon sisters. That being said,

1:45.8

it took decades for these sisters to get the recognition they deserved. So don't think it's easy

1:50.6

because it's not. Thank you to the listener who suggested this case and whose name I cannot find,

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