Have you ever wondered if there were any women gangsters that are as feared as their male counterparts?
There is a certain morbid curiosity that we all have when it comes to talking about gangsters that have been immortalized over the years both by Hollywood and also by the public’s fascination with true crime documentaries. There is something very human about the fascination with the morbid that we all possess inside us, no matter how much we try to deny it. That is why there are so many true crime series, documentaries, and movies made, most of them being met with a lot of enthusiasm.
What’s actually very interesting is that while we all know the deed of the most feared male gangsters that the United States has seen, a lot of the public knows very little of their female counterparts. How many documentaries and movies have you seen dedicated to the likes of Al Capone and Pablo Escobar and their criminal empires, yet almost none for the female gangsters?
While they generally fall in the background, there have been numerous female mafia heads that have been running successful crime empires over the years, most of them rivaling the ones that men had. And because we need to remember all the parts of our history and not just the ones that seem more easily monetized, we have gathered some of the ones that were both feared and revealed in their communities to present them to you!
Let us know if you knew about these women before or if you’ve only heard about their brutal acts!
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Yes I have heard of them All
They should make a movie all about these women and how they started especially Stephanie st.clair
I love stories like this
Thank you for this fascinating article about female mafia heads from gangster history. I found it interesting when you mentioned that there are numerous female mafia heads who ran successful crime empires. This read compels me to learn more, so I’ll definitely find a mafia historical site in my area to satisfy my curiosity.
You forgot to include Hillary Clinton
Interesting that they went into the 1990s, and yet failed to mention Hillary Clinton… She had a daughter by a family friend in retaliation for her husband’s multiple infidelities… Everyone that opposed her “committed suicide”, one by stabbing himself in the back 12 times in a public park… And, of course Ron Brown who was about to destroy her Golden Goose, by reporting to Newt Gingrich, when he returns to Washington after giving our Nuclear Missile Guidance System Blueprints to China, in thanks for reElection funds… He died in a plane crash on the way back, in which, as they reported “Everyone died”, but in truth there was only 1 body at the crash site, Ron Brown, with a bullet in the back of his head… The Investigator of the site was moved to a different department, when the cover story made news… 2 years later, she, the Investigator, managed to steal the sealed file and open it live on CNN showing pictures of her and her Assistant at the crashsite, as well as Ron Brown and the bullet hole, for 10 minutes, then it disappeared… The Clintons were still in the Whitehouse…
I don’t know if you would consider Patty Cannon of Sussex County De a gangster but she was a illegal slave trader a serial killer and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson gang of Md and De.