This week on Switchblade Sisters Social Club, Dee and Isla saddle up for a story straight out of a movie – but this one’s all true.
Meet Peggy Jo Tallas: devoted daughter, quiet cashier… and the cross-dressing Texan bank robber who outsmarted the FBI. For years, they hunted the mysterious 'Cowboy Bob' - a calm, silent, and oddly polite bandit in a Stetson. What they didn’t know was that behind the fake beard and oversized boots was a 46-year-old woman caring for her sick mother.
From her first heist in 1991 to her tragic final showdown in 2005, Peggy Jo’s story is part Thelma & Louise, part Robin Hood, and all heartbreak.
Dee and Isla unpack the loneliness, the thrill, and the quiet rebellion of a woman pushed to extremes by circumstance - and why her story still fascinates writers, filmmakers, and feminists today.
💋 No guns, no gangs, no fear - just a towel, a cowboy hat, and a whole lot of guts.
Skip Hollandsworth, The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob, Texas Monthly
Skip Hollandsworth, She Kills: The True Stories of Women Who Kill (2024)
Associated Press and Dallas Morning News archives, 2005
FBI case records on 'Cowboy Bob,' Irving TX
Court transcripts via Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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