![]() ![]() ![]() One of her high school classmates remembered her as a “peculiar person” and a “bad seed” who didn’t get very much parental supervision, which led to a lot of drinking and running around with a bad crowd. Marie certainly did fight like hell, though she was often fighting on the wrong side of the law. Everything I ever got I had to fight like hell for.” All Marie ever said about that time in her life was in an interview in 1973, where she declared, “I was never handed anything. Her sister wouldn’t talk about their childhood, either. Decades later, when she spoke to journalist Gary Corsair about her life, she refused to tell him anything about those early years. And that’s about all we know of her childhood. She dropped out of school in sixth grade. She was Black, and Leesburg was segregated at the time. Marie was born in Leesburg, Florida on August 8, 1933. “It’s like she flew out of here,” said the prison superintendent, the next day. But she’d been put in a minimum security room in the prison hospital at Florida Correctional Institute for Women at Lowell, even though the man who prosecuted her had protested wildly, saying she was “dangerous and will kill again.” She looked around the room. ![]()
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