Beginning in 1933\, Eleanor Jarman was sen sationalized by the press as the &ldquo\;blonde tigress&rdquo\; and &ldquo \;the most dangerous woman alive.&rdquo\; But a closer look at her life sh ows that she was an otherwise ordinary woman who got caught up in a Chicag o crime spree\, then was convicted as an accomplice to murder and sent to prison. In 1940\, Eleanor escaped and managed to live out her life as\, pe rhaps\, America&rsquo\;s longest-running female fugitive. Following the mu rder of an elderly shopkeeper\, viewers are given a front-row seat for Ele anor&rsquo\;s arrest\, trial\, conviction\, and sentencing&mdash\;all docu mented with recently unearthed primary-source police records\, court trans cripts\, and prison files&mdash\;and her subsequent prison years. "In Sear ch of the Blonde Tigress" sets the mystery and intrigue of this wanted wom an into historic context. It also includes her family&rsquo\;s plea\, in 1 993\, for Eleanor to come forward and apply for clemency. Most revealing a t the time was Eleanor&rsquo\;s alias. With that information (and consider ing that Eleanor\, born in 1901\, is certainly now deceased)\, Silvia Pett em documents her search for Eleanor&rsquo\;s remains&mdash\;right up to a visit to her likely grave.
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