The 'Post A Bad Ass Woman' thread

[Quiet Reflections]

Lilith

[cookiepuss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R20f-TPKjzc

Beat me to it. Good call!

[gunner55]

Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski (September 19, 1929 – June 16, 1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of some of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenaged girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history".

The case has since been subject to numerous fictional and non-fictional adaptations, one of the most recent being An American Crime, featuring Catherine Keener as Gertrude Baniszewski and Ellen Page as Sylvia Likens, which was released nation-wide in 2008.[1]

[Stoerosov]

I remember two famous persons:

1) Kate "Ma" Barker (October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935) was a legendary American criminal from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwest gripped the American people and press. Her notoriety has since subsided, trailing behind Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. More —> here <—
and
2) Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) More —> here <—

[baileyandkc]

Didn't it all start when Herod's stepdaughter asked for John the Baptist's head...Or was there an Old Testament version of that?