In the first episode of CLEWS: The Podcast, we take you back to the gin-fueled, jazz-filled nights in Chicago, Illinois when a good-looking woman could kill a man for no reason whatsoever -- other than to get her picture in the paper.
It's the story of the shocking murder epidemic that caused the deaths of three hundred husbands and boyfriends, and the scandalous true stories of two beautiful killers who inspired the musical "Chicago" - Beulah May Annan and Belle Gaertner.
In the 2002 film, they are beautiful women played by world-famous beauties Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. In reality, they were stupid, foolish women who committed senseless murders and had no excuse, provocation, or defense to explain the bloodshed.
The best book about the epidemic of mariticide that gripped Chicago from 1875 to 1925 is Douglas Perry's 2011 book, The girls of murder city. Though it is far too short for me. Well, a set of encyclopedias about Chicago's man-killers would probably be too short for me.
Posters for the 1925 film Flaming Flappers - in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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