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Plead The Belly
by Plead The Belly
We are a True Crime podcast about women and the crimes they commit. Join us twice a month as we use a sense of humor to analyze the bad things women have done throughout history.
Episodes
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040- PTB discusses Pet Stockholm Syndrome, the Science of Reattaching Limbs and Lorena Bobbitt
Lorena Bobbitt was born October 31, 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador. Not much is documented about her life until she married John Bobbitt in 1989. On June 23, 1993 Bobbitt claimed that her husband raped her. This wasn’t an uncommon occurrence and she had suffered other forms of physical and mental abuse...
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039- PTB discusses fears of needles, what it means to be self made and Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes was born on born on February 3, 1984 in Washington D.C. Her mother worked as a congressional staffer while her dad was employed by Enron and later worked for government agencies like the United States Agency for International Development. She was considered to be a bright child...
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038- PTB discusses the legality of law and order and Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates was born in Hallsville Texas in 1964. She started to show signs of depression at age 17. She graduated from high school in 1982 as class valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and an officer in the National Honor Society. She went on to get her nursing degree from the University of...
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037 - PTB discussess ye olden dating practices, trespassing laws and Bell Gunness
In 1883 she immigrated to Chicago to live with her sister while her brother stayed in Norway. In 1884 she married Mads Albert Sorenson and they had four kids and one foster child. Her husband owned a candy store. In 1890 their house burned down and in 1895 the store burned down and they received...
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036 - PTB discusses our 1-10 gruesomeness scale, the lack of Indian crime coverage and the Sinister Sisters
In Nasik, Pune India a mother, daughter, Seema Mohan Gavit, and step daughter, Renuka Kiran Shinde, trio teamed up to commit crimes. The daughters were in their twenties when they started pick pocketing people. In 1990 they realized that they could use children to creat a diversion. Shinde was...
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035- PTB discusses our MN roots, rusty water and the Glensheen Mansion Murders
In 1908 the family moved into the house. That was also the year that Chester won a House a Representative seat in the State Congress. He died at 63 of a heart attack. When he died he was the richest person in Minnesota. The adult children later all moved out of the house and Clara remained…
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034 - PTB tries to avoid discussing Gertrude Baniszewski by talking about Mama June, Losing Streak Louis and anything else
Baniszewski was born September 19, 1929 as Gertrude Wright, She was very close to her father but had a strained relationship with her monther. When Baniszewski was 11 she watched her dad die of a heart attack. She dropped out of school at 16 to marry 18 year old John Baniszewski. They had four…
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033-PTB discusses Anna Sorkin, whether Gucci is passe and tips for being your own sugar daddy
Anna Sorokin is a Russian Immigrant. Her father was a truck driver in Russia who later ran a heating and cooling business in Germany. Sorokin moved to Paris for an internship at Purple magazine and then moved to New York in 2014. From here she began to embed herself in high society. She wasn't as...
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032 - PTB discusses the 40 Elephants, our love of pockets and why this group should be taught in business school
The Forty Elephants got their name from the Forty Thieves, a similar male gang. They were different in that they were comprised entirely of women and instead of breaking into stores they would steal while the stores were open. They were in existence from at least 1873 through the 1950s but it’s...
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031 - PTB discusses Six Miscellaneous Madames
Yoselyn Ortega Yoselyn Ortega was a nanny for a New York family. The family had three children, Lucia, Leo and Nessie. On October 25th, 2012 Marina Krim, the mother, went to their apartment with her youngest child, Nessie, because Ortega hadn’t showed up at the other daughter’s ballet lesson.…
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030 - PTB discusses Kim Saenz, bleach and our origin story
Kim Saenz was born in Fall River, Massachusetts 1973. In 2007 she moved to Lufkin, Texas and was hired as a nurse at DaVita's dialysis clinic. She was hired despite a poor employment history. She had been fired from four health care jobs for stealing medical and cheating on a urine test. She had...
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029 - PTB discusses Loretta Valezquez, Spy v. Spy and Mulan
Loreta Velazquez was born in Cuba on June 26, 1842 to a wealthy family. In 1849 she moved to New Orleans for school. At age fourteen she married an office of the Texas army and when he joined the confederate army she wanted to join to. He refused so she made a uniform and join the army under the...
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028 -PTB discusses Cassie Chadwick, Amelia's alternate career plans and how great our state is
Cassie Chadwick as born as Elizabeth Bigley in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada in 1857. When she was 14 years old she moved to Woodstock, Ontario, where she opened a bank account using a suspicious letter from a fake uncle. With the account she managed to pass dozens of worthless checks around the…
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027 - PTB discusses Lizzie Borden, old timey murders, and mother goose
Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Lizze Borden was born on July 19th, 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts to Sarah Anthony and Andrew Jackson Borden. She also had an older sister, Emma. Initially Mr. Borden...
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026 - PTB discusses Allison Mack, Amelia's tip for recognizing a cult and Hermione Granger
NXIVM was founded in 1998 as a multi-level marketing company that offered "Executive Success Programs" and self improvement seminars. Keith Raniere was one of the founders and he said the purpose of the company was to "have people experience more joy in their lives." It was a pyramid scheme where...
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025 - PTB Discusses the Kardashians, Shylohs love of Trash TV and Alice Marie Johnson
Johnson was a single mom who was arrested in 1993 for her nonviolent involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization. She became involved in the drug trade after she lost her long time job at FedEx. Johnson had a rough like. She had a gambling addiction, got a divorce and lost her...
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024 -PTB discusses old video games, a potential new musical and the Bloody Benders
In Kansas in 1872 there was a family of four- the dad, John Bender, Sr. or Pa, a son John, a wife whose name was Almira or Elvira Ma and a daughter Kate. They were a homestead family and got a plot of 160 acres. The parents mostly spoke German and maybe a little English but both of the kids knew...
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023 - PTB discusses Patty Hearst, Shlyoh's present, and how many women criminals there are.
Glory Johnson and Brittney Griner are both NBA stars. They played against each other in college Johnson for Tennessee, Griner for Baylor. They were both first round draft picks after college, Johnson to the Tulsa Shock and Griner to Phoenix Mercury. The pair met in basketball camp in 2013 and…
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022- PTB discusses female athletes, basketball and Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson
Glory Johnson and Brittney Griner are both NBA stars. They played against each other in college Johnson for Tennessee, Griner for Baylor. They were both first round draft picks after college, Johnson to the Tulsa Shock and Griner to Phoenix Mercury. The pair met in basketball camp in 2013 and…
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021 - PTB discusses Anne Hamilton-Byrne, cults and our anniversary
Hamilton-Byrne had one kid and lost her first husband in a car crash. After this, she started taking then teaching yoga. She was drawn to its connections with Eastern religion and eventually began teaching yoga to curious middle-class housewives in Melbourne. This is how she began her cult.…
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020 - PTB discusses Linda Hazzard, whether Shyloh is a bigamist and how you need to eat
Linda Hazzard was born in Carver County, Minnesota, in 1867. She was married Samuel Christman Hazzard at the age of 18 and had two children. In 1989 she left her husband and children to pursue a career in Minneapolis. She killed her first patient in 1902, the same year her divorce was finalized....
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019 - (April Fools Episode!) PTB discusses Ed Kemper, Shyloh learning a new word and why we don't cover men
Ed Kemper was born December 18, 1948 in California. He was a large baby, weighing 13 pounds at birth. He had a terrible childhood. His parents divorced when he was 9 and he moved to Montana with his mom and two sisters. His mom was cruel, mocking him and telling him that no one would ever love…
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018 - PTB discusses Jodi Ann Arias, the cold weather and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Arias was born in 1980 in California. According to her, starting at age seven she was abused by her parents and beaten with a spoon. Her parents denied the claims and said that she had mental health issues. Her friends would contact her parents and say that she needed help. She dropped out of…
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017 - PTB discusses Leona Helmsley, excessive wealth, and rich dogs
She was born July 4, 1920 as Lena Mindy Rosenthal. She changed her name several times and was married four times. Her first husband was an attorney named Leo Panzirer. She married Joseph Lubinm, her second husband twice. Her third husband and fourth marriage was to Harry Helmsley whom she met in...
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016 - PTB discusses Phoolan Devi, the caste system and the lack of cults
Devi was born August 10, 1963 into a lower caste. She was married at age 11 to an older man who beat and raped her. She ran back to her family, which was considered shameful. They had her beaten and imprisoned for three days before they returned her to him. At 16 she ran away for good, eventually...
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015 - PTB discusses multiple coups, Antastasia and Dilma Rousseff
Brazil claimed their independence from Portugal in 1822, creating the empire of Brazil that lasted until 1889. Pedro II was given the throne when he was 5 yrs old. In 1889 there was a coup where Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca overthrew Pedro II and declared Brazil a republic though it operated as a...
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014 - PTB discusses their (new) patron saint, the meticulousness of the mob and Stephanie St. Clair
What actually happened during Stephanie St Clair’s early life is up for debate. Most records suggest that she was born on 12/24 in 1897 on the island of Guadeloupe and that she travelled to the US when she was 13. Others suggest that she was actually 23 when she arrive and that she was born in...
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013 - PTB discusses high school romance, how everything is bigger in Texas and Bonnie Parker
Born in Rowena Texas in 1910. Her father died in 1914, when Bonnie was four. Her mother moved them to Cement City, an impoverished industrial city. Met Roy Thorton in her second year of high school and married him. She dropped out of school as well. She got a tattoo of their names on her right...
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012 - PTB Discusses Their Year in Review, Charlie Brown Christmas Trees and Vera Renczi
There are few details about Vera Renczi’s early life. According to some accounts she was born in Bucharest in 1903 but given the timeline of the murders it’s more likely that she was born in the late 1800’s. Her mom died when she was 13 and she moved to Northern Yugoslavia with her dad where she...
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011- PTB Discusses Leonarda Cianciulli, How to make soap, and Shyloh's safety
Born in Montella Italy in the 1920’s. As a young child tried to commit suicide twice. She married Raffaele Pansardi and in 1930 they moved to Correggio where she opened a small shop. She was very popular and well-respected within her neighborhood. She had 17 pregnancies, three of which resulted…
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010 - PTB Discusses Miyuki Ishikawa, Amelia's fear of being touched and our social media skills
She was born in 1897 in a small southern town in Japan called Kinitomi. Not a lot is known about her early life but as an adult she became the director of a hospital ward. She saw families who were having babies and wasn’t able to afford them and chose to take matters into her own hands. At the...
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009 - PTB Discusses Griselda Blanco, Cocaine Cowgirls, Mean Girls and The Drug Trade in the 1970's
Born in Columbia in 1943. She was raised in an abusive situation, her step father abused her and she grew up in the slums. At 11 years old she joined a gang. The gang captured a 10 year old boy and his family refused to pay the ransom for him so Blanco killed him on a dare. At age 14 she moved…
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008 - PTB Discusses Aileen Wuronos, Continued Cult-ish Behavior, and Shady Adult Adoptions
Aileen Wuornos was born on 2/29/1956 as Aileen Carol Pittman. Her mom was only 14 years old when she married Aileen’s father, Leo Dale Pittman. She never met her dad, he was in jail when she was born, having been convicted of sexual acts against children. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and...
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007 - PTB Discusses Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard, Dr. Phil, and How Old Shyloh and Amelia Were In College
Dee Dee Blancharde had Gypsy at age 24, the father was 17. Separated soon after, Dee Dee and Gypsy moved in with her father and stepmother. Gypsy starts to develop sleep apnea at 3 months old. They also found a chromosome disease that slowed her development. In a wheelchair since age 7 because of...
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006 - PTB Discusses the Kurim Case, Internet Security, and Why Cannabilism Makes For Bad Parenting
The Crimes In May 2007 a neighbor bought a baby monitor and through it saw a live feed of two boys who were being tortured. He recognized a woman in the video as his neighbor and called the cops, who went to the house and found the boys imprisoned in a broom closet. They were naked and bound. It...
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005 - PTB Discusses Dalphine LaLaurie, Slavery, Torture, and Nick Cage
Bought land at 1140 Royal Street with her third husband and built a 2 story house (later added a third story). It was one of the tallest structures in the French Quarter and was valued at 33,000 in 1831 (around 900,000 today). LaLaurie’s crimes were discovered when a slave girl jumped from a…
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004 -Martha Stewart
Background: Martha Stewart was born August 3, 1941 in New Jersey. She wasn’t from a wealthy family but grew up babysitting for famous people like Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. At age 15 she began modeling and had contracts with companies like Unilever and Chanel. She used this to pay her way...
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003 - Elizabeth Báthory
Losing streak Lois Update Lois' son, Braden Riess, spoke to a media outlet, saying something happened and his mother just snapped. He described her as a loving caring mother, always putting her children first. He also revealed that she had burned up a $500,000 inheritance from gambling. As for…
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001 - Welcome!
For our first podcast we’re examining where the term plead the belly came from, how it was used and by whom. Origin of plead the belly Pleading the belly was used by women in the UK and US to postpone her execution after being found guilty in a criminal trial by claiming she was pregnant. The...
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We are a True Crime podcast about women and the crimes they commit. Join us twice a month as we use a sense of humor to analyze the bad things women have done throughout history.
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