Grifter: True Crime
Grifter: True Crime
Sonali Verghese
#2 The Lost Carnegie
24 minutes Posted Apr 13, 2020 at 8:07 am.
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Cassie Chadwick a.k.a Elizabeth Bigley defrauded several American banks out of millions of dollars by claiming to be Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. She pulled off one of the greatest bank heists during the Gilded Age in American history - when women weren’t allowed to vote or get loans from banks.
Sources: 
1. Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-high-priestess-of-fraudulent-finance-45/
2. The Vintage News: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/22/the-turbulent-life-of-cassie-chadwick-the-impostor-who-claimed-to-be-carnegies-illegitimate-daughter/