FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's four Depression-era Public Enemy No. 1's — John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis — are etched into gangster lore, and all but one ...
The Barker-Karpis Gang, later known as the "Ma Barker Gang," was a famous criminal group of the Depression era. Led primarily by Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (1907–1979) and Fred Barker (1903–1935), the gang ...
The mystery of who robbed a Wahpeton bank in September 1932, endured until the man bragged about it 40 years later. He was 'Public Enemy No. 1' and 'the scourge of the Midwest.' In 1971, after nearly ...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — They made movies and wrote books about Depression-era gangster John Dillinger, and legions still know his name. Lawmen even thought for a while that the Indiana-born Dillinger was ...
Several notorious criminals with Kansas connections served time in Alcatraz, including Alvin Karpis, “Machine Gun” Kelly, and Robert Stroud. Donald Trump expressed interest in reopening Alcatraz ...