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    Death Row's Wildest Women
    Death Row's Wildest Women
    Death Row's Wildest Women
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    Death Row's Wildest Women

    By Ty Treadwell

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    Brooke Rottiers used her bras and underwear to strangle two men to death, and even shoved a pair of panties down one man’s throat. Brittany Holberg couldn’t decide on the perfect murder weapon, so she used a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, two forks, a hammer, a skillet, a steam iron, a space heater, and a lamp pole to dispatch her victim. And Juanita Spinelli, known as “The Duchess,” never killed anyone with her own hands but still earned a trip to the gas chamber as the leader of a gang of carnival rejects and misfit criminals.

    Death Row’s Wildest Women takes a wry, irreverent look at 13 of history’s most ferocious females. Meet Eva Dugan, AKA Claw-Finger Kitty, a former cabaret dancer who literally lost her head on the day of her hanging due to a faulty noose. Learn about Antoinette Frank, the crooked cop who killed two people during a restaurant robbery then showed up at the murder scene again hours later to investigate the crime. Read about a woman who had sex with a future state senator in the back seat of a car on her way to the electric chair, and another woman who experienced sexual pleasure with every swing of her pickax as she committed a gruesome double murder.

    These death row inmates had one thing in common; they were all women, but their behavior was anything but ladylike.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTy Treadwell
    Release dateJun 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311188472
    Death Row's Wildest Women
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    Ty Treadwell

    Ty Treadwell's short stories have appeared in Writer's Journal, Unreality, Over My Dead Body, and many other magazines. He has also sold over 150 non-fiction articles. His awards include a gold medal in the essay category at the 2008 GAMMA Awards and first prize in the 2007 Travel Writing Contest sponsored by Writer’s Journal. He once taught writing classes for Clayton State University, and he now teaches an online writing class that attracts students from across the country.Treadwell is also co-author of the book Last Suppers; Famous Final Meals from Death Row. He is currently at work on a variety of both fiction and non-fiction projects.

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      Death Row's Wildest Women - Ty Treadwell

      Death Row’s Wildest Women

      By Ty Treadwell

      Copyright Ty Treadwell

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Michelle Michaud

      Brittany Holberg

      Eva Dugan

      Brooke Rottiers

      Sue Logue

      Antoinette Frank

      Suzanne Basso

      Juanita Spinelli

      Karla Faye Tucker

      Martha Beck

      Angelina Rodriguez

      Christa Pike

      Elizabeth Ann Duncan

      Miss Runners-Up: The Women Who Didn’t Quite Make It

      Introduction

      It’s been nearly 100 years since the women’s suffrage movement changed American society forever, but in many ways women are still fighting for equality. One notable case is on death row, where women make up less than 2% of the population despite committing roughly 11% of the murders. Only 51 women have been executed in the past century compared to over 1,400 men who have been executed since 1976 alone, and that trend shows no sign of changing anytime soon.

      A mere 53 women are currently on death row in America, with a huge chunk of those—21 to be exact—incarcerated in California. Of the 30 other states where capital punishment is still practiced, half of them have no female death row inmates at all. The remaining states, with few exceptions, have only one or two condemned female prisoners each. To fully understand these meager numbers, let’s look at them in sports terms. If America’s prisons decided to form a softball league made up of female death row inmates, only California would have enough players for a full team. If a death row basketball league was organized instead, only four states (Alabama, California, Florida, and Texas) would have enough players to put on the court, but California would still be the only state to have reserve players coming off the bench. (Prison wardens, take note: due to the small pool of potential players, tennis and golf might be your best bet for all-female death row sports—as long as your athletes don’t suddenly decide to use their racquets and golf clubs as makeshift weapons.) Men, on the other hand, are so common on death row that each state could easily put together multiple teams for Australian rules football (18 players per team) if desired—although even hardened criminals would probably complain about the level of violence in that brutal sport.

      So why this disparity among the sexes? Are judges and juries simply more hesitant to mete out death sentences to women, or do females commit a different variety of murder which is kinder, gentler, and somehow less execution-worthy? Once upon a time, that might have been true. Although its popularity is waning these days, poison used to be quite popular among death row dames (and while death by poison is no walk in the park, it does lack the savagery that accompanies most stabbings, bludgeonings, and garden-variety shootings). Numerous women have also been convicted of orchestrating a murder rather than committing the killing themselves, leaving the victim dead while the female felon avoids getting her hands dirty (perhaps in the hopes of preserving an expensive manicure).

      The most extreme difference between male and female killers, however, is in the choice of victims. Of the women currently on death row, half were convicted of killing their own husbands, their own children, or both. That means there’s no reason to bolt your doors after reading this book, because the woman you really need to worry about is the one snuggled up beside you in bed or sitting across from you at the dinner table—which reminds me, you might want to check those mashed potatoes for arsenic and make sure there’s no antifreeze in that glass of iced tea she just handed you with an adoring smile.

      For the most part, that image of the poised, demure, and often grandmotherly female killer portrayed in Agatha Christie novels and countless TV dramas is a thing of the past, because today’s homicidal women have gone that extra bloody mile to prove they’re just as tough as the boys. These are the women who choose cutting-edge weapons over cutting-edge fashion, the women who scoff when someone says You stab like a girl. They demand equal sentences for equal crimes, they proudly break down traditional barriers (sometimes with a pickax or a sledgehammer), and they prefer to be labeled pretty deadly instead of just pretty.

      The women’s rights movement has always embraced the slogan Well-behaved women seldom make history. In this book, you’ll meet 13 women who would proudly wear those words across their blood-spattered t-shirts or slap a bumper sticker with that phrase on the car they just used to haul a dead body to the edge of town—right beside the sticker that says A woman’s place is in the death chamber and below the one that states I am woman, hear me roar (as I commit a gruesome murder).

      Michelle Michaud

      Today’s busy woman-on-the-go needs to wear many hats and be adept at multi-tasking. Michelle Michaud proved she was capable of that by working as a school crossing guard, volunteering at a local church, and raising two kids as a single mom while still finding time to turn tricks at massage parlors and embark on a spree of serial kidnappings and rapes

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