Maria Kyle

"My mother worked at the 44 Below. Just like Anni. She used to take me there when I was a little girl." "To the club?" "Yeah. I hid out in the dressing room while she worked. Used to see him there. He scared the shit out of me. And I could never understand why he looked at me the way he did. Then one night, my mother told me who he was. When I was seven, my mother was murdered. Strangled. Never found out who. Probably some creep from the club."

- Selina Kyle and Batman

Maria Kyle was a lover of mob leader Carmine Falcone and the mother of the rogue thief Selina Kyle. Working as waitress in infamous crime place Iceberg Lounge, she had a adventure with Carmine Falcone in unknown circonstances, and gave birth to a daughter, Selina. She however hidden to Falcone he had a daughter, and raised Selina alone. When Selina was seven, Maria was strangled to death likely on Falcone orders for unknown reasons.