This document profiles 10 famous female bank robbers throughout history: 1. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious outlaws and criminals during the Great Depression who were eventually ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana. 2. Sylvete Phylis Gilbert was dubbed the "Church Lady Bandit" for her resemblance to someone who had just come from church as she committed over a dozen bank robberies in Ohio between 2006-2010. 3. Candice Martinez was sentenced to 12 years for robbing four banks while chatting on her phone with her boyfriend, earning her the name the "Cell Phone Bandit" for netting $48,620 in the heists.

1. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws,
robbers and criminals. The couple themselves were eventually ambushed and
killed in Louisiana by law officers.
Law enforcement officials had dubbed Sylvete Phylis Gilbert the “Church Lady
Bandit” as a witness said she looked like someone who had just come from
church.
Heather Johnston and Ashley Miller quickly became known as the “Barbie
Bandits”.
Kate “Ma” Barker was the mother of several criminals who ran the Barker Gang.
Martinez was dubbed the “Cell Phone Bandit” for chatting on the phone with her
boyfriend during the heists, which netted the couple $48,620.
1. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker

2. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers,
and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.
Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the “public enemy era” between
1931 and 1934. Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred
to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police
officers and committed several civilian murders. The couple themselves were eventually ambushed
and killed in Louisiana by law officers. Their reputation was cemented in American pop folklore by
Arthur Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
2. Sylvete Phylis Gilbert
Sylvete Phylis Gilbert, 46, finally got caught after a long string of bank robberies in the Columbus,
Ohio area. Law enforcement officials had dubbed her the “Church Lady Bandit” because a witness in
one of her early robberies said she looked like someone who had just come from church. She was
charged on 12 second-degree felony counts of robbery and 12 counts of robbery in the third degree
for robbing numerous banks and businesses between January, 2006 and December, 2010.
3. Cora Hubbard

3. Cora Hubbard was a 19th century outlaw who participated in the August 17, 1897 robbing of the
McDonald County Bank in Pineville, Missouri. Hubbard, who was compared at the time to the more
prolific female outlaw Belle Starr, was one of only a handful of women who actively participated in
the actual bank robbery process during that era.
4. Starlet Bandit

4. In just one week in April, she robbed five banks in Los Angeles County, including two in one day.
Law enforcement authorities gave the glamorous nickname despite her frumpy appearance — a
casually dressed, hefty woman in sunglasses, carrying a shoulder bag and holding a cell phone to
one ear. In May, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller told the Los Angeles Daily News that two women
were in custody in the case and investigators believe that the Starlet Bandit may have actually been
several women, not just one.
5. Barbie Bandits

5. Heather Johnston and Ashley Miller quickly became known as the “Barbie Bandits” after their
February, 2007, holdup of a Bank of America branch in Acworth, Georgia. The girls, who met while
working at a strip club, plotted with Johnston’s boyfriend, Michael Chastang and a bank teller to pull
off the heist. Miller was sentenced to two years in jail and Johnston to 10 years probation, getting a
lighter sentence because she was the first to cooperate with the investigation.
6. Bank Robbin’ Mama

6. Erica F. Anderson was apparently trying to multitask on the day she was arrested for robbing the
Umpqua Bank branch in Grants Pass, Ore., in September, 2010. The 37-year old mother of five
pleaded guilty Dec. 17 to robbing two banks in Temecula. That’s when she was sentenced to two
years in prison. She was released on $25,000 bail and ordered to surrender to authorities in
January.
7. Kate “Ma” Barker

7. Kate “Ma” Barker (born Arizona Donnie Clark; October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935) was the
mother of several criminals who ran the Barker gang from the “public enemy era”, when the exploits
of gangs of criminals in the U.S. Midwest gripped the American people and press. Ma Barker
certainly knew of the gang’s activities, and even helped them before and after they committed their
crimes. This would make her an accomplice, but there is no evidence that she was ever an active
participant in any of the crimes themselves or involved in planning them. Her role was in taking care
of gang members, who often sent her to the movies while they committed crimes.
8. Candice R. Martinez

8. College student Candice R. Martinez was 20 when she was sentenced to 12 years in prison in
March, 2006 for robbing four Wachovia bank branches in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Seven years of that sentence were for pulling a revolver during one of the robberies. Martinez was
dubbed the “cell phone bandit” for chatting on the phone with her boyfriend during the heists,
which netted the couple $48,620. Martinez, who had worked for Wachovia prior to the robberies,
apologized to the bank tellers when she was sentenced.
9. Beauty Salon Bandit

9. Beauty salon owner Norma Balderas-Dehernandez started holding up New Jersey banks in
January, 2009. By May of that year, the mother of three had hit three bank branches, netting a little
over $8,000. In each robbery, she’d hand a note written in Spanish to a Spanish-speaking teller,
demanding money. he was sentenced in July, 2010 to 30 months in federal prison.
10. Patricia Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, the granddaughter of publishing titan William Randolph Hearst,
made headlines in 1974 when an urban guerrilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped

10. her from her Berkeley, Calif., apartment. Two months later, she was caught on surveillance
cameras robbing a San Francisco bank while brandishing an assault rifle, having apparently taken
up her captors’ cause. At her trial, her attorney claimed Hearst had been brainwashed by her
captors, but the effort didn’t work and she was convicted in March, 1976. She served almost two
years before President Jimmy Carter commuted her seven-year sentence. President Bill Clinton
granted her a full pardon on the last day of his presidency.
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