Second Saturday: The “Bad Girls” of New Mexico History

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New Mexico’s Spanish, Mexican, and more recent Territorial Period judicial records at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives in Santa Fe make it clear that women participated in crime in the “old days.” This presentation by Robert Torrez reviews some of the documentary evidence of the past three hundred years to show how crimes by women were adjudicated in colonial New Mexico and the Territorial Period. Hear about a few of the more notorious criminal cases involving women, including the case of a mother and daughter who were hanged for murder in 1779, Las Vegas’ infamous Paula Angel, and other little known “bad girls” from New Mexico’s “wild west” period.