On Aug. 8, 1940, the Blonde Tigress vanished into a cornfield behind the women’s reformatory near Dwight, Ill. She was never seen again. The Tigress, Eleanor Jarman, earned her nickname because of how ...

In 1993, Doug Jarman made a last-ditch effort to find a grandmother whose last known whereabouts were a prison she fled in 1940. Harrison Ford’s movie “The Fugitive” made stories like hers a hot topic ...