Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid : America's original gangster couple

Summary: Before Bonnie and Clyde, there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Wittemore, two lovestruck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars' worth of diamonds and precious gems -- a value of over then million dollars today. Margaret was a chic flapper, the archetypal gun moll, a partner to her husband's crimes. Richard was the quintessential bad boy, whose cunning and violent ambition allowed the Whittemores to live the kind of lives they'd only seen in the movies. Along the way he killed at least three men, until prosecutors managed a conviction. As tabloids across the country blared the details of the couple's star-crossed romance, they became heroes to a new generation of young Americans who sought their own versions of freedom.