# @denverwestword on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-05-22T15:23:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Denver Westword (@denverwestword) — https://gondola.cc/denverwestword

## Caption

In 1951, fugitive Eleanor Jarman was dubbed “the most dangerous woman alive” by the Chicago Tribune. She was still on the run eleven years after she’d escaped from an Illinois prison where she was serving 199 years as an accomplice to murder.

She might have been serving pancakes at Pete’s Kitchen in Denver.

Jarman, also known as “the Blonde Tigress,” was allegedly implicated in 37 robberies committed in Chicago during the summer of 1933. She was arrested after one of her partners-in-crime fatally shot a 71-year-old storekeeper during a holdup.

But Jarman served only seven years of her 199-year sentence before she scaled a fence and hitchhiked to freedom wearing a polka-dot dress, never to be seen by authorities again.

Police hunted the infamous outlaw in vain for over a decade; she’s believed to be among the longest-sought female fugitives in American history. Now, Colorado author and historical researcher Silvia Pettem thinks she has finally found Jarman — right here in the Mile High City.

✍️ Read this week’s cover story by hannahmetzgermedia at westword.com or at the link in our bio.
Cover Design: Monika Swiderski 

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