According to one report, Ma Barker, age 63, was found with a Tommy Gun in her hands. Ma and her son Fred, the only occupants, were found dead in an upper bedroom after the bullets stopped flying late in the day. This led to a gun battle so lengthy that it attracted local residents as spectators, some holding picnics nearby to watch the battle unfold. When they demanded the occupants surrender, Ma’s son Fred fired on the agents. When authorities surrounded the house on Januthey expected to find the entire gang.
Bullet holes pierce a rocking chair in the room where Ma Barker made her last stand in a six-hour standoff with the FBI. Gator Joe became the clue that led authorities to her hideout. “Gator Joe” was the clue that led authorities to the hideout.īut when one of her sons was arrested in Chicago, authorities found a map with a lake mentioning “Gator Joe,” a reference to a large and well-known alligator on Lake Weir. 1” the Barkers knew it was time to lay low, so they retreated from the Midwest to sleepy Ocklawaha where they thought they would never be found. When Hoover named the gang as “Public Enemy No. Ma and her four sons were responsible for a string of bank robberies and kidnappings that totaled $2 million in ill-gotten gain and 10 dead citizens, including a police officer. Edgar Hoover set his sights on destroying all organized crime in the country. The Barker / Karpis gang was one of the last notorious gangs in the United States when J. The top-ranking film including her story was 2009’s “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp.
Robert De Niro, Bruce Dern and Shelley Winters played Kate “Ma” Barker and her boys in the 1970 film “Bloody Mama,” which comes in even worse at 17 percent. The 1960 film “Ma Barker’s Killer Brood” scores a stinky 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. The murderous exploits of the Barker Gang have become the stuff of legends.
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