Howdy there veta-less! Well thank you for reading and commenting and I'm so glad that you did because this is a reminder for me to go over to your blog so thank you for everything! lol. Oh, and the stories are my pleasure, history is very interesting to me. I should research some of the outlaws from your country!
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Oh, that would be interesting! Are you interested in the crooks and robbers or serial killers?
Howdy again veta-less! I like all of them but just write mostly about crooks and robbers because the serial killers are pretty dark and on one can relate to them, I don't want to go to dark and evil on my blog! lol. Although they would make great stories.
I understand you! Well, if you only write about scammers, then I'll throw you a story about a Russian scammer. Her name is so well known and nominal that even wrote a book and filmed the series)))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Golden_Hand
Sonya Golden Hand
Sofia Ivanovna Blyuvshtein (also spelled as Bluvstein, Bluvsztejn; better known as Sonia (Son'ka) the Golden Hand; 1846–1902), was a legendary female con artist who lived in the Russian Empire and was eventually convicted of theft. She committed several carefully planned robberies, and was eventually captured and exiled to the Sakhalin penal colony. She became the basis of several books and films, in which she is romanticized as a Robin Hood figure, who never killed, and who stole only from the rich.In 1890, she met Anton Chekhov, who was visiting Sakhalin during his investigations into prison reform; he subsequently described the incident in his book Sakhalin Island.
A headless statue by an unmarked grave in Moscow's Vagankovo Cemetery is used as a shrine to Sonia; worshippers, who believe Sonya to be buried there, ask for her spiritual assistance in their own crimes.
Howdy again veta-loss! Thank you so much for this information! I will check her out when I have time and I'm saving this link. The last sentence of the wiki text about her is creepy! Criminals ask for her spiritual assistance in their crimes? wow! lol.
Thank you so much!