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| Verne & Vivian & Betty Photos courtesy of Brad Smith |
| Don't Call Us Molls Women of the Dillinger Gang by Ellen Poulsen is THE book to add to any crime library. To learn more about this book or to order a copy click on the cover above. |
| This page is dedicated to the women behind some of the most ruthless gangsters of their day. Did they truly love them or were they just mesmerized by their fame and the thrill of the adventure of being known as THEIR women. Some not only were there for their men when they returned home they were also there standing side by side them in their acts of crime. This is more of a photo gallery putting faces to the names for a more in depth description of some of these women please click on the following link: Don't Call Us Molls. Talk show hosts of today would call what these women had "tough love" but back then these women would have just called it "TRUE LOVE" |
| The Women Behind The Men by Linda Mattix |
| Clyde Barrow with his lady Bonnie Parker. She was not only his lover and his best friend but also his partner in crime. They lived together, loved together and ultimately DIED together. |
| Photos from author's collection unless otherwise noted Page copyrighted by linda mattix 2004-06 |
| Marvin "Buck" Barrow and his wife Blanche. Their love held true to the end He was shot in a field near Dexter, Iowa and later died, she went to jail for 6 years. |
| Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd with his wife Ruby and their son Jack Dempsey. Ruby divorced "Pretty Boy" while he was in prison only to leave her new husband and rejoin him when he was released. |
| Alvin "Creepy" Karpis and his girlfriend Doloris Delaney. She was 17 when she met Karpis and stayed with him for 2 years. She was captured in a gun battle in Atlantic City and sent to prison where she bore his son. |
| Verne Miller, his live-in lover Vivian Mathis with her daughter Betty. She gave Betty to her parents when she went on the lam with Verne until she was captured and he was murdered. She went to prison for harboring her "true love." |
| George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife Kathryn. She was his partner in crime and his guiding light. Both went to prison for kidnapping. |
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| Buck & Blanche photo courtesy of Frank Ballinger |
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| Fred "Killer" Burke was rarely without a woman, marrying them when convenient. Bonnie Porter knew him as "Richard White" when she married "the most wanted man in America" but stood behind him after he was captured. Burke went to prison for life. |
| George "Bugs" Moran accompanied by his loyal wife Lucy in a courtroom appearance. Unlike many gangsters, "Bugs" was a devoted husband. |
| Dean and Viola O'Banion. They were happily married until Dean's murder. |
| Moran and O'Banion photos courtesy of Rose Keefe. |
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| Al Capone philandered but kept his wife, Mae in the background. She visited him faithfully while he was in prison and after his release took care of him until his death. |
| Photo of Mae courtesy of Mario Gomes |
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| Louise Rolfe was "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn's "blonde alibi" for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. She later married him and swore to his innocence years after his murder. |
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| Nancy Presser, New York City hooker, testified against Charles "Lucky" Luciano at his vice trial after allegedly spending a few nights with him at his Waldorf-Astoria love nest. |
| Presser and Luciano photos courtesy of Ellen Poulsen |
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| Helen Gillis stood loyally by her husband Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis right up until his last stand in which he killed two FBI agents. |
| Evelyn "Billie" Frechette John Dillinger's devoted Indian lover who went to prison for harboring him. |
| John Dillinger Public Enemy No. 1 had many female admirers but these were his favorite. |
| Rita "Polly" Hamilton went with John to his last movie accompanied by the infamous "Lady in Red" Anna Sage. |
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| After a few months of marriage Alvin Karpis abandoned Dorothy after killing a Missouri sheriff. |
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| The "Zany Duo" on THE HOOT OWL TRAIL! |