Barbara Graham (also sometimes refered to as Barbara Wood) was born in June 26, 1923. She was a native of Oakland, California. She also lived for some time at San Quentin. Barbara Graham gained notoriety as an American criminal and was also convicted as a murderess. She had to pay with her life and was executed in the gas chamber along with two of her accomplices.
Barbara Graham sold herself as prostitute and even indulge in using drugs. She was nick named as “Bloody Babs” by the media. Another case that became notorious in the limelight was when she was convicted of beating an aged widow Mable Monohan to death during a faile robbery attempt. She met her other accomplices through her fourth beau Henry Graham, who was also a career criminal and father of her son, Tommy.
Her infamous line before her execution was “Good people are always so sure they are right.”
Barbara Graham is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, San Rafael, California.
Your English is obviously a second language.
in responce to: Your English is obviously a second language.
whats your point?
I’m very curious. Barbara’s mother was sent to reform school when Barbara was two. What for? Was she denied the basics of life, her mother? Made fun of – targeted for social and verbal abuse for being an “unwed” mother? Today they are women who could not get access to the pill, as women who wear white at weddings had the pill, married when they were older, which is only humane. Face facts, not all males and females are vigin when they marry.
I just wonder . . . Sometimes children were solicited by peds, many of whom were married. Often they are treated unlike a couple would have treated their own – a commodity/state funds, yet the mother couldn’t have the basics of life for herself, the child’s father laughing all the way to the bank. She should have know better, rather than he should have kept his pants zipped.
What a cruel crime Barbara committed – that is undeniable.
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Does anyone know if Barbara went into the Gas Chamber bare footed
as others were required to do? Was this always the case? Did
Caryl Chessman have to remove his socks? They roll a green carpet
from the holding cell to the Gas Chamber door. I wonder if this
had anything to do with the Cyanide, & if they had a problem at
some point in the past?
Barbara wore shoes usaully the person being exrcuted has to go without any shoes but Barbara insisted that she wear shoes.Chessman did go bare foot if you see the movie Kill me if you can with Alan Alda he was bare footed when he went into the gas chamber
I think its sad peroid. I mean idk but 3 men was it & one woman yet “she” pistol wiped the old lady. I dont think so. she was the decoy not the mastermind not the one in charge not the one heading it up. theres always a leader-person in charge. i say he hit the woman i think its common since she might have been a messed up woman but i find it hard to believe she was that bad. the things she did back then people do today & we barely blink an eye. a woman struggling to find herself doing anything to survive-sad i say.
does anyone know what ever become of her children?