Gerardine Elizabeth Carmichael was a transgender con artist who is claimed to be a widow of a NASA structural engineer, a farm girl from Indiana, and a mother of 5. In reality, she had been wanted by the police since 1961 for alleged involvement in a counterfeiting operation.
She founded Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation in 1974, which was prove to be fraudulent when She went into hiding with investors' money. The company Defunct in 1978.
She was found working under an alias in a flower shop, arrested, tried and sent to prison, where she served 32 months before she was paroled.
She died of cancer in 2004.