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 ...
On this date, May 1, in 1936, J. Edgar Hoover arrested Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, essentially ending the age of the big-name Depression-era criminals. The capture of Karpis elevated Hoover and the FBI to ...