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Podcast: Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things (DetectiverySOM)
Episode: Ma and Fred Barker, the FBI's Longest Gunfight
Description: Send us Fan MailWe give you an almighty FUBAR, when the Barker/Karpis gang (1935) exchanged bullets with the FBI, well, not the whole gang, just Ma and Fred Barker. The events and craziness leading up to this pivotal encounter is nothing short of nutty. Ma and Fred Barker, were criminals to the core, leading the FBI and local law enforcement agencies on a wild goose chase in the 1930s, they were rubbing elbows with some of the times most heinous criminal elements. Robbing banks, robbing trains, murder, kidnapping, theft, and so much more. ...