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The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because she fell in love with the wrong man, she wound up peddling Nazi propaganda on the radio as "Axis Sally." Volatile Hester Foster was already doing time at the Ohio State Penitentiary when she bashed in the head of a fellow inmate with a shovel. The sinister Anna Marie Hahn dosed at least five elderly Cincinnati men with arsenic and croton oil and then watched them die in agony while pretending to nurse them back to health. Award-winning crime writer Jane Ann Turzillo recounts the stories of Ohio's most notorious vixens, viragoes and villainesses.
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Jane Ann Turzillo is a double Agatha Award nominee and several-time National Federation of Press Women award winner. She writes about and gives presentations on true crimes in Ohio history. As an original owner of a large Ohio weekly newspaper, she covered police and fire news and wrote a historical column. She is the author of seven books, the latest is Wicked Women in Ohio. Many of her short stories and articles have been published in newspapers and magazines across the United States and Canada. She holds degrees in Criminal Justice Technology and Mass-Media Communication from The University of Akron. Her memberships include Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime (immediate past president of the Northeast Ohio chapter) , Society of Professional Journalists and National Federation of Press Women. Visit her at www.janeannturzillo.com or http://darkheartedwomen.wordpress.com
