Rachel Francis was a young, red-haired woman whose temper was as fiery as her hair. She married an older man named Henry Francis and the two embarked upon a scheme to abduct a young heiress named Grace Fontaine. They kept Grace perpetually drugged and provided her with the alias of Henry’s daughter, Dorothy. Rachel began posing as Henry’s other daughter, rather than his wife and pretended to act as a live-in nurse for the invalid Dorothy.