The Untold Story of Sophie Lyons, Queen of the Burglars #TrueCrimeHistory #SophieLyons

1851. A three-year-old girl is caught stealing a coin purse on New York's Lower East Side. Raised by career criminals and taught to pickpocket before she could read, Sophie Lyons would go on to become, in the words of one writer, the most notorious confidence woman America has ever produced. Part 1 follows her rise: four marriages to career criminals, a daring escape from Sing Sing prison, a double life funded by pickpocketing and blackmail, and a reputation that spread across two continents. Part 2 follows her transformation: her final marriage, her decades-long fight against morphine addiction, the 1913 memoir distributed by William Randolph Hearst, and the reform work that turned "America's greatest confidence woman" into a benefactor for troubled youth and reformed criminals until her death in Detroit in 1924. Some details of her life remain disputed even today. What is certain is one of the most remarkable transformations in American criminal history. #TrueCrimeHistory #SophieLyons #QueenOfTheBurglars #HistoryDocumentary #UntoldStory #19thCenturyCrime