She and a farmhand, George Barker, had four sons. As soon as the boys were grown, her husband left. Legends vary about Ma Barker's role in her boys' gang. Some say she just cooked and cleaned.

Kate “Ma” Barker and her son Fred lay dead on the second floor of the house, marking the demise of the notorious Barker-Karpis Gang after 4 1/2 hours of what is still the longest shootout in ...

From dust-bowl days in Oklahoma to an opulent Florida hideout under siege, Ma Barker (Lurene Tuttle of "Psycho"), leads her sons astray while maintaining a consultation sideline for the likes of ...

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby ...