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In the heart of the Great Depression, a petite young woman, later identified as Margaret Folds, embarked on a series of check forging sprees, netting her small sums at various stores and larger amounts at others. Her crimes led her to a tourist court under an alias, where she was later arrested and booked into a ratty city jail basement. Tragically, she took her own life hours after her arrest, leaving behind a trail of aliases and a mystery that would only be unraveled by a letter from J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. The case of this serial check forger closed with her burial in an unmarked grave, a stark reminder of the desperate times of the Great Depression.

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