ma barker

     

Last name of the "Ma" killed in a gun battle with the police & FBI January 16, 1935

Trivia about ma barker

  • Some say this "maternal" outlaw arranged the murder of her lover, Arthur Dunlop
  • Her husband George was never part of her outlaw gang, but her four sons were
  • Some say Arizona Donnie Clark was just an overprotective mother, but she's infamously known by this name
  • She not only condoned the crimes committed by sons Herman, Lloyd, Arthur & Fred, she may have participated
  • "Motherly" 1930s criminal seen here:
  • This mother seen here died in a four-hour battle with the FBI in 1935
  • In 1935 she & her favorite son Fred died during a shootout with FBI agents
  • Alvin Karpis said this motherly bank robber was not the evil mastermind J. Edgar Hoover said she was
  • You could call this outlaw the "Mother" of all crime; she was also the mother of Herman, Fred, Arthur & Lloyd
  • In 1933 the First National Bank was robbed by a gang that included Alvin Karpis & 2 sons of this female gangster
  • In January of 1935, federal agents gunned down this famous mother & her son Fred