The Chicago School of Mariticide (In Stereo)

CLEWS takes you to the gin-fueled, jazz-filled nights in Chicago, Illinois when a good-looking woman could kill a man for no reason whatsoever -- other than to get her picture in the paper.  Here is the story of the shocking murder epidemic that caused the deaths of three hundred husbands and boyfriends, and the scandalous true stories of two beautiful killers who inspired the musical "Chicago" - Beulah May Annan and Belle Gaertner.

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Posters for the 1925 film Flaming Flappers - in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.