Gypsy Rose Lee, orRose Louise Hovick, was not just a renowned stripper, but an actress with twelve movies and a televisio9n show to her credit. Unlike modern strippers who seem to think their sexual appeal is all makeup and thigh high boots, Gypsy Rose Lee did her acts with a touch of class. Later, she even became an author, and her last work, her autobiography, was quite a success. She is buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles California in Pinecrest Plot, Lot 1087, Grave 8.

Don’t believe everything you see in the movies. For starters. the mask was stiffened black velvet, not iron. I guess “iron” just sounded better for the moviegoers. Also unlike the movies, it is highly unlikely that the prisoner was King Louis IV’s twin, thopugh it is possible he was an illegitimate relative that had the misfortune to resemble the king overly much. The truth is, no one alive knows. Anything left in official papers did little to clear things up. All it verifies was that the man was kept for most of his life, moved from prison to prison several times, and that he had never been tried, charged, or convicted of anything criminal.

According to official papers, the unknown, masked prisoner died on November 19, 1703, and was buried somewhere in “St. Paul in our parrish” in France. His grave bore the name “Marchioly”, for whatever reason.

Louis XV, who knew the identity of the man, would say only that he had never heard a ruor that even came close to the truth.

Billy the Kid was born on Nov. 23, 1859 in New York City. In 1877, while working doing odd jobs in Arizona, he killed his first man, and began a legendary killing spree that resulted not only in his place in history, but aso has made millions at the box office. There is, however, much evidence that this first killing was, in fact, self deefense, but the Kid was jailed anyway. He broke out, and fled to New Mexico, where he joined the Jesse Evans gang for a short time. What followed in the next years is food for specularion, depending upon your sympathies. Either Billy the Kid was a horrid murderer who deserved to die, or he was a victim of the politics of the time and the circumstances that surrounded him. Either way, he was shot to death by Sherrif Pat Garret on Jul. 15, 1881 during an escape attempt.

Billy the Kid is buried in the Old Fort Sumner Cemetary in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Clyde Barrow was born in 19009 and shot to death by Texas Rangers in 1934. His partner in crime, Bonnie Parker, was also killed at that time. This shooting death was the end result of a two year kidnapping and robbery spree that cost twelve people their lives, not counting Bonnie and Clyde. They died near Gibsland, Louisiana, and from what I understand, the car they were in was so riddled with bullets that it was hard to find a square inch left undamaged. Apparemtly, the Rangers weren’t taking any chances. Though they died together, death has separated them… Clyde Barrow is buried in Western Heights Cemetary in Dallas, while Bonnie is interred in the Crown Hill Memorial Park, also in Dallas.

Joe Ball was born in Texas in 1896. After serving in WWI, he returned home to Texas and opened a bar laughably named “The Sociable Inn”. This bar had two distinctions… VERY pretty waitresses, and the five alligators that were kept in a pit out back. The friendly innkeeper would entertain his customers by tossing huge bloody chunks of meat to the alligators, and when that got boring, live cats or dogs. There were many rumors about the man and his bar, most notably where the meat chunks came from, and the fact that waitresses kept vanishing. When the police eventually decided to look into things and went to see the guy, he shot himself and died. Human remains were found in a barrel near the alligator pit, though lack of bodies, and lack of investigation, leave the actual number of victims unknown.

He is buried at the Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Cemetary in Elmendorf, Texas.

Josie Arlington was a notorious New Orleans madam, though other than her rather unsavory occupation, it isn’t clear that she was involved in anything else illegal. Her date of birth has been lost to time, presumably because, in her profession, you just didn’t tell. She died in 1914 and was buried in Metairie Cemetary in New Orleans (I have no idea how this particular cemetary fared when Katrina hit… ).Soon after her death, locals became convinced that her crypt was haunted. The statue of the woman in front of the crypt was said to take on a life of it’s own and wander the graveyard at night. It was discovered upon investigation that a nearby streetlamp, coupled with the wind, was casting an eerie glow on the statue, presumably causing the rumors. She was at some point moved to an undisclosed location in the same cemetary, and the rumors stopped.

This was a seventeenth century Countess with very weird ideas. Born in Transylvania, she is at least partially responsible for the belief in vampires that plagued that area for a long time. She entertained the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins would keep her young, and, for ten years, did just that. When authorities finally raided her castle, the remains of over fifty young firls were found. As punishment, she was walled up in her bedroom, fed only through a small access hole. She died after four years of confinement.

The exact location of her grave is unknown, but it is said to be near Chactice Castle,   Nove Mesto, Bratislavski, Slovakia.

The woman that history records as “Ma Barker” was born sometime in or around  1877 and died on January 16th, 1935. She, along with her four sons and multiple other criminals, were legendary for their crimes throughout the west. She was killed in a shootout with the FBI.

Ma Barker is buried in  Williams Timberhill Cemetary, Welch, Oklahoma.