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b'Before Bonnie and Clyde, there was another criminal couple capturing America\\u2019s attention. Baltimore sweethearts, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, made tabloids across the country as Tiger Girl and The Candy Kid during the 1920s for stealing millions of dollars\\u2019 worth of diamonds and precious gems along with Americans\\u2019 hearts.

Todays guest, Glenn Stout, author of \\u201cTiger Girl and the Candy Kid,\\u201d discuss the Whittemore\\u2019s Jazz Age exploits. This era is typically defined in terms of its glamour. But not everyone in 1920s America had it all. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids, reached for the dream of a better life. The two would stop at nothing to get rich and headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars\\u2019 worth of diamonds and precious gems - over ten million dollars today.

Margaret was a chic flapper, the archetypal gun moll, right hand to her husband\\u2019s crimes. Richard was the quintessential bad boy, the gang\\u2019s cunning and muscle that allowed the Whittemores to live the kind of lives they\\u2019d only seen in the movies. Along the way he killed at least three men, until prosecutors managed a conviction. As tabloids across the country exclaimed the details of the couple\\u2019s star-crossed romance, they became heroes to a new generation of young Americans who sought their own version of freedom'